Newsline 28 August 2009: A Dutch court has ruled that 13-year-old Laura Dekker will not be allowed to embark on her planned attempt to sail solo around the world; we talk to the first Jew to be elected to the Revolutionary Council of the Palestinian Fatah movement, and sample the slow life in an Italian village.

Laura to stay home
A Dutch court has ruled that Laura Dekker will have to delay her dream of sailing round the world single-handed. The 13-year-old girl has been placed under the supervision of the Child Protection Board for 2 months, during which time the authorities will attempt to determine if she is mentally and physically capable of undertaking the journey.

"Traitor, scum, mentally unstable"
Those are just some of the names Uri Davis has been called by his fellow Israelis following his election to the Revolutionary Council of the Palestinian Fatah movement. Mr Davis tells us why and how he came to be what he calls an "anti-Zionist".

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The slow life
If the stresses of daily life are getting you down, why not plan a break in a "Slow City"? The idea kicked off in Italy where a handful of towns signed a charter promising to bring back la dolce vita and cut out noise and stress, and now "slow" cities are springing up in dozens of countries. We visit Bra, the original Slow City, to find out if life there is really any different.

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