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The movie Anonymous directed by Roland Emmerich opens this week. Except for the heavy use of computer-generated images, it's nothing like his previous disasteramas – The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day and 2012.

The World's Gerry Hadden reports a Christmas tradition in the Catalonian region of Spain. It will strike you as unusual and might strike you as offensive. It is a figure in the Catalonian nativity scene called the �pooper.�

Movies and novels are increasingly giving men with Asperger's the leading role. The Takeaway asks New York Times health editor David Corcoran and New York Magazine film critic David Edelstein how such films affect the community they portray.

Last week, we heard from the BBC's Aleem Maqbool, who's been re-tracing the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem said to have been made by Mary and Joseph. Like the Biblical couple, Maqbool's traveled by donkey. Anchor Katy Clark gets an update from him.

BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool is tracing the Biblical footsteps of Mary and Joseph from Nazareth to Bethlehem. The modern-day route is rife with checkpoints, militants and a few irate locals. And what's more, Maqbool's doing it all with a donkey in tow.

The BBC's Aleem Maqbool is re-tracing the route taken by Mary and Joseph in the biblical Christmas story on their journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem. And as the story goes, Mary and Joseph traveled by donkey.

Novelist and professor Francine Prose says that aspiring writers should learn to write by reading the work of great writers.