A presidential visit and a papal privilege
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Finnish president Alexander Stubb arrived for an official visit. Meanwhile, the Grand Duchess exercised a rare papal privilege by wearing white to meet the pontiff in Metz.
October will bring the launch of 'Mental Health Weeks', an awareness campaign to pull psychological well-being into sharper public focus. Separately, new consumer strategies hope to curb the waste discarded from daily shopping.
Rescue workers faced an unusual extraction challenge after a car managed to get itself firmly stuck inside a parking lot.