The Italian Supreme Court has ruled there is a causal link between mobile phone use and brain tumors in a landmark case. The ruling has set a legal precedent that could potentially trigger a deluge of lawsuits. Innocente Marcolini, a 60-year-old retired businessman argued that the excessive use of his mobile phone for around six hours every day for 12 years caused a benign brain tumor that left his... 

A grim report issued today by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov states that all Russian nuclear forces and Airborne Troops (VDV) have been ordered by President Putin to extend their full combat alert status put into place by former President Medvedev last November (2011) [watch video HERE] to counter NATO’s missile defense system. According to this report, Putin issued this extraordinary order... 

Provisional figures released by Greece’s national statistics authority have shown the country’s deficit and public debt for 2011 are worse than estimated. According to provisional data published by ELSTAT statistics agency on Monday, the 2011 deficit stood at 9.4 percent of gross domestic product and the public debt at 170.6 percent. “The revisions as regards the debt ratios are primarily... 

In October 2012, a team from state owned Russian TV channel Rossiya 1 came to France for a reportage. As representative sites, they chose Paris and Saint-Ouen. They saw a lot of hawkers, Roma beggars, Muslims praying in the streets and drug dealers. Their conclusion, the country is invaded by foreign people and its now becoming a colony of its former colonies.  Read More »

Alleged terrorist plotters (from the left) Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali, both 27. A British court has been told that an al-Qaeda inspired group including up to 8 bombers were planning “another 9/11” in the UK, local media reported. Woolwich Crown Court heard that a Birmingham-based Jihadist group, whose chieftains received training in Pakistan, had plans to induce “mass deaths”... 

A NATO base may appear in Moldova, near the border of the breakaway Transdniestrian Republic. Officials representing the Transdniestrian authorities say that the information is true. Their counterparts in Moldova do not deny the news either. Russia stated clearly that it would recognize Transdniestria, if Moldova decided to unite with Romania. Is the conflict about to unfreeze? The situation around... 

There was a time when the Turkish-led Ottoman Empire ruled over a large chunk of Europe. Now some believe the Turks want to bring back those old glory days. The Turkish government has embarked on a mosque-building campaign throughout Germany. One new Turkish mega-mosque, the Cologne Central Mosque, has Germans on edge. When construction on the facility is completed, it will be Germany’s largest... 

Soldiers of the 4th Brigade Air Defense (NORAD) air and space defense forces (ASD) during the deployment of the Launcher antiaircraft missile system S-400 “Triumph” at a site in the Moscow region The Russian military will deploy state-of-the-art air defense systems along its southern border by the end of the year, the Defense Ministry announced. “In accordance with the Southern Military... 

Protesters clash with riot policemen during a demonstration in Madrid, Spain. Spain is considering a law that aims to ban photographing, filming or reproducing images of the country’s members of police and state security forces while they are on duty, officials say. Spain’s Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said that the government is considering the ban on capturing, playing back and processing... 

Russia plans to spend 101.15 billion rubles on nuclear weapons in 2013-2015, the head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma Vladimir Komoyedov said. “The budget provisions under “The Nuclear Weapons Complex” section in 2013-2015 will amount to 29.28 billion rubles, 33.3 billion rubles and 38.57 billion rubles respectively,” Komoyedov said, Vechernaya Moskva reports. The... 

Next-door neighbour: An artist’s impression of the recently found planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to our own (click on the image to enlarge it) An Earth-sized planet has been found orbiting a star in Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbouring solar system. The mystery world circling Alpha Centauri B is thought to be much too hot to support... 

Blind Mr Farmer was walking along Peter Street to meet his friends in a pub when the officer swooped Police tasered and handcuffed a blind two-time stroke victim in northern England, reportedly mistaking his walking stick for samurai sword. Colin Farmer, a retired architect who is 61 and cannot move unaided, was on his own and walking down a street in Chorley, in the county of Lancashire, on a Friday... 

People’s religious feelings must be respected, but Russia is a secular state, President Vladimir Putin stated in a comment on a recent controversy over a Russian school banning Muslim girls from attending classes while wearing a hijab. “We should see how our neighbors, European states deal with this issue [wearing hijabs]. And everything will become clear,” Putin said on Thursday, at a meeting... 

Youths have clashed with the Athens police force, pelting officers with stones and petrol bombs during an anti-austerity march. More than 40,000 have taken to the streets in Greece in a 24-hour strike against wage and pension cuts. Anti-austerity activists faced down police officers, throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks in the center of Athens. Police responded by firing teargas and stun grenades... 

European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli has resigned. The European Commission says the EU commissioner for health and consumer policy has resigned over allegations of corruption involving tobacco laws. The commission said in a statement that John Dalli stepped down from his post on Tuesday, “following an investigation by OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud office, into a complaint”...