Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A competitor tries to grab a flag as he falls off the "gostra", a wooden pole covered in lard, during the main competition, part ...
ST JULIAN'S, Malta (Reuters) - For more than a century, locals in the small Maltese town of St Julian's have celebrated their patron saint by running up a steeply angled log, smeared with lard, ...