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The Vatican said on Thursday that the Catholic Church's statute of limitations on child sexual abuse has been extended to 20 years after a victim's 18th birthday.

Catholic News Service has reported that the church, wracked in recent years by priest sex abuse scandals, also reclassified possession of child pornography, equating it with sexual abuse of children. That means priests proved to have used child pornography can be defrocked.

The changes were part of a revision of "Delicta Graviora," a document defining crimes against the church.

It is cracking down on teachers who use the classroom to spread support of terrorism, says the government of Saudi Arabia.

Gulf News has reported on Thursday that officials said more than 2,000 teachers have been transferred to administrative positions in two years after they were found to be proselytizing for al-Qaida.

A test of the new containment cap on the well gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico has stopped the flow of crude, a BP official said on Thursday.

BP engineers closed all three valves on the massive containment cap and oil stopped spewing into the water a mile below the surface for the first time since April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 workers.

BP Vice President Kent Wells said during an interview with NPR, "We will be monitoring the pressure carefully every 6 hours. It was quite something to see."

BMW has publicised the release of ‘iPod Out’ feature with respect to the new iOS 4 that will go on-board with all kinds of entertainment systems in all new vehicles.

It was further stated by the car maker that the feature will help all kinds of BMW and Mini car owners to control their iPhones and iPods from vehicle's on-board entertainment system.

One can also use the gadget’s Genius feature and customize their playlists.

The devices that prove to go smooth are iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4, along with second and third generation iPod Touch devices.

The recent report stated by federal judge claims that a monopoly lawsuit filed in lieu of Apple and network carrier AT&T’s is considered to be a class action, as stated by the Associated Press.

The lawsuit will take in consideration of a number of lawsuits filed by iPhone customers that date back to 2007, soon after the proclamation of Apple's first iPhone model, and at the same time stop the trade of locked iPhones that can be used on AT&T’s networks only.

Facebook is all set to close down the operations of its ‘Facebook Gifts’ from 1 August, CNN reports.

This application was termed to be one of the earliest apps that was offered by the social networking giant and thus, helped send virtual gifts to friends and family with the help of Facebook Credits.

Jared Morgenstern through his blog post explained: “Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the decision after careful thought about where we need to focus our product development efforts."