question: Rome (CNN) -- Italian judges released the captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner from house arrest Thursday, but ordered him not to leave his home town while the case against him continues, his lawyer said.

Francesco Schettino has been under house arrest in his home town of Meta di Sorrento, near Naples, since January 17.

At least 30 people died when the cruise liner struck rocks and turned on its side off the Italian island of Giglio on January 13.

Schettino faces allegations of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship, failing to report an accident to the coast guard and destroying a natural habitat, a prosecutor said this year. Giglio is a protected park.

Schettino's lawyer, Bruno Leporatti, had argued for the lifting of the restrictions on his client, saying his behavior had been "faultless."

The judge leading the preliminary investigations, Valeria Montesarchio, said it would be easy to keep Schettino under "adequate supervision" in Meta di Sorrento without house arrest because it is a small town, according to court documents released Thursday.

In addition, the months Schettino has spent under house arrest have already produced a "deterrent effect," Montesarchio said.

Concordia disaster focuses attention on how cruise industry operates

The judge also lifted a provision barring Schettino from communicating with anyone apart from his lawyers and family.

From the beginning, Leporatti said, the attitude of the captain had been "totally collaborative, he has spoken on his defense but admitting his responsibilities, without trying to download them on others."
1. Who was allowed to go home?
2. Who is he?
3. Who gave the verdict?
4. What was the verdict?
5. Where he had to stay?
6. Which city?
7. When?
8. What he actually did?
9. Did he do anything to the envronment?
10. What?
****
answer: 1. Francesco Schettino
2. captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner
3. Italian judges
4. Guilty
5. house arrest
6. Meta di Sorrento
7. January
8. manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship, failing to report an accident to the coast guard and destroying a natural habita
9. Yes
10. destroyed a natural habitat

question: CHAPTER II

"THE NEW ART"

A tall, fair young man stood in the small alcove of Lady Swindon's drawing-room, with his eyes fixed upon the door. He was accurately dressed in the afternoon garb of a London man about town, and carried in his hand, or rather in his hands, for they were crossed behind him, that hall-mark of Western civilization--a well-brushed, immaculate silk hat. Neither in his clothes nor personal appearance was there any striking difference between him and the crowd of other young men who thronged the rooms, except perhaps that he was a trifle better made, and pleasanter to look at than most of them, and that the air of boredom, so apparent on most of their faces and in their manners, was in his case perfectly natural. As a matter of fact, he hated afternoon receptions, and was only waiting for a favourable opportunity to make his exit unnoticed.

"Paul, my boy, you don't look happy," exclaimed a voice in his ear.

Paul de Vaux turned upon the new-comer sharply. "Not likely to, Arthur. You know I hate all this sort of thing, and, as far as I can see, it's just a repetition of the usual performance--stale speeches, lionizing, gossip, and weak tea. I consider you've brought me here under false pretences. Where's the startling novelty you promised me?"

"All in good time," was the cool reply. "You'll thank your stars you're here in a minute or two."

Paul de Vaux looked at his brother incredulously. "Some sell of yours, I suppose," he remarked. "At any rate, no one here whom I have spoken to seems to be expecting anything unusual."
1. Who stood in the alcove?
2. Who said Paul didn't look happy?
3. What's Paul's last name?
4. Does he like afternoon receptions?
5. What happens at them?
6. Who brought Paul there?
7. Why did he come?
8. When does Arthur think Paul will be thankful?
9. What's the relationship between Paul and Arthur?
10. Is everyone expecting something strange?
11. Whose house were they at?
12. And what room there?
13. What city were they in?
14. What was he wearing?
15. Of what kind of person?
16. What position were his hands in?
17. What was he holding?
18. What material was it made of?
19. Was it clean?
20. Who else was in the room?
****
answer: 1. A young man
2. Arthur
3. de Vaux
4. No
5. stale speeches, lionizing, gossip, and weak tea
6. Arthur
7. startling novelty was promised
8. a minute or two
9. brothers
10. no
11. Lady Swindon's
12. drawing-room
13. London
14. afternoon garb
15. London man about town
16. crossed behind him
17. hat
18. silk
19. yes
20. other young men

question: (CNN) -- The threatening calls reportedly came one after the other to Mexico's main Catholic seminary.

Callers, claiming to be from one of the country's feared drug cartels, offered an ominous warning: Pay up if you value the safety of your priests.

"They called several times. They identified themselves as the Familia Michoacana, but who knows?" Cardinal Norberto Rivera, archbishop of Mexico City, revealed at a Mass this week. "I spoke with the authorities. We made the appropriate report. Because they wanted us to pay. Because if not, they would kill one of us. They wanted to extort 60,000 pesos ($4,600)."

Reports of extortion have become increasingly common as drug cartels expand their reach in Mexico. But public denouncements of such attempts are rare.

Rivera called on parishioners to report extortion to authorities, and he urged them not to pay.

His description Sunday of the extortion attempts and a statement denouncing drug violence give a glimpse into the problems faced by a Catholic Church often caught in the crossfire of warring cartels and government efforts to stop them.

In the country's capital alone, more than 10 priests have been threatened with extortion, said the Reverend Hugo Valdemar Romero, a spokesman for the archdiocese.

"None of them have paid," he told CNN. "Last year, two extortionists were arrested."

It's not uncommon for individual parishes to face extortion threats, he said. But the calls last month to the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Mexico marked the first time such a large church-run institution in the capital had been targeted, Romero said.
1. Who got the threats?
2. Where?
3. Who the callers claimed to be?
4. What they want?
5. If not paid, what they would do?
6. Is this types of activity common?
7. Why?
8. Do people denounce it?
9. How many times they called in this case?
10. Who they said they are?
11. Who says that?
12. Who is he?
13. of what?
14. Who did he inform that?
15. When?
16. How much they wanted?
17. Did he talk to the appropriate persons?
18. How many priests were threatened in the capital?
19. Who informed that?
20. In what capacity?
****
answer:
1. main Catholic seminary
2. in Mexico
3. drug cartels
4. money
5. hurt the priests
6. yes
7. drug cartels expanded
8. rarely
9. several times
10. Familia Michoacana
11. Norberto Rivera
12. archbishop
13. Mexico City
14. at a Mass
15. this week
16. 60,000 pesos ($4,600)
17. I spoke with the authorities
18. 10
19. Reverend Hugo Valdemar Romero
20. as a spokesman for the archdiocese