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Ramadan is a festive month for Muslims around the world, and in the Middle East -- it is a time when families get together and tune in to their favourite TV programmes. But there is one show in Egypt that is causing some problems. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Cairo where a Ramadan TV series about the Muslim Brotherhood is striking a cultural nerve.

Family members of the 33 trapped miners in Chile have sent their loved ones happy notes, citing no mention of how long their ordeal is going to last.

Some sent jokes; others wrote tender noted like "keep the faith," and "I love you, Papa," said AFP on Tuesday.

A bull has injured 40 people during a bull-leaping contest in the northern region of Navarra in Spain after it leapt over the fence and ran into the spectators.

The incident took place in the Tafalla arena where the animal jumped 10 meters over a fence that guarded the watching crowd.

Greece and Turkey are locked in a cultural war over rights to a famous Shadow Puppet show. The United Nation's recognition of Turkey's puppet tradition - known as Karagiozis - has triggered the clash. Now Greece is headed for the UN to assert its own distinctive puppet culture. Barnaby Phillips reports from Athens.

At least 15 people have been killed and thousands of others have been evacuated as heavy rain and flooding disrupt traffic and cause power outages in central Europe.

Polish officials announced on Sunday that at least three people have been killed after rivers overflew and a dam burst, submerging towns in southwestern Poland.