Lawyer Dagir Hasavov The Yabloko party has addressed prosecutors after a Chechen lawyer said in a televised interview that Russian authorities should legalize Sharia courts – or face violence and bloodshed. Yabloko chairman Sergey Mitrokhin has said that his party suspected the lawyer, Dagir Khasavov (sometimes also spelled as Khasabov) of extremism after the native of predominantly Muslim Chechnya... 

Former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Jailed Ukrainian former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on a hunger strike, protesting her treatment in prison and demanding an end to political repression. Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been on a hunger strike for the past five days, protesting her treatment by prison guards and doctors, as well as calling... 

Debris are seen on the site of a blast which occured in a dairy plant on April 23, 2012 in Fredrikstadt, some 100km south of Oslo A huge explosion has rocked a dairy plant in Fredrikstad in south-east Norway. At least one person was killed while three others were seriously injured. A number are unaccounted for and are feared to have perished. Police have confirmed one person has died in the blast,... 

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has handed his government’s resignation to Queen Beatrix after talks on reducing the country’s budget to meet European guidelines failed. The government information service announced on Monday that the Queen accepted Rutte’s resignation and asked him to tend to urgent matters of the state until elections possibly as early as... 

Marine Le Pen, National Front Party Candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, salutes supporters in Paris after early results in the first round vote of the 2012 French presidential election, April 22, 2012 With the surprise breakthrough by the far-right in the first round of the French presidential poll, political pundits now say their supporters are in a key position to decide who becomes... 

Care providers and policemen walk on the site where two trains collided between train stations Amsterdam-Sloterdijk and Amsterdam-Centraal in Amsterdam, on April 21, 2012. Two trains have collided in Amsterdam, Dutch media reports. At least 125 people were injured in the accident, around 50 seriously. A spokeswoman for Dutch Railways said the injuries mainly consist of broken bones and bruises. The... 

The first studies on radiation: Geissler, Crookes and Rontgen. The second half of the nineteenth century was particularly fruitful for the development of Physical Science, which began to shed light on the intimate constitution of matter with constant and meticulous efforts of a large group of scientists from various European nations. The principle of self-reliance was released, as the scientific research,... 

Marine Le Pen, who heads France's National Front party, has highlighted the country's right to defend its national identity France’s politics would appear to be in deceptively rude health. As Sunday’s first stage of the country’s two-round presidential election approaches, the vital indicators return vivid signs of life. Mass meetings in Paris and elsewhere have drawn numbers and passion... 

Moscow has the largest Muslim population in Europe, with four mosques in the city serving more than two million people. The country has become a multi-confessional state in which Muslims and Christians have had to learn to live together. But according to experts, every day the problems connected with international and religious issues come up. On April 10, murder of the representative of the Azerbaijani... 

The parliamentary faction leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU), Volker Kauder A leading member of the German parliament’s conservative bloc and an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel says Islam is not part of the German society. “Islam is not part of our tradition and identity in Germany and so does not belong in Germany,” Volker Kauder, who heads Merkel’s conservative bloc at... 

The Voronezh DM radar station, a part of the Aerospace Defense System, in the Kaliningrad region. A Russian missile defense radar could be placed in Transdniester in reply to US plans for a European AMD system, a newspaper reported as Russia’s special envoy Dmitry Rogozin began his first trip to the region. Nezavisimaya Gazeta quoted an unnamed source as saying that “Russia intends to maintain... 

A new study conducted by French researchers has suggested that Baboons are capable of experiencing the first step in reading and can identify actual words. Researchers tested a group of Guinea baboons in a specially built facility at the Aix-Marseille University in France. The study revealed that after being trained, the animals were able to recognize words after seeing them once and differentiate... 

Health experts are demanding tighter controls on electronic cigarettes amid fears customers could be exposed to poisonous chemicals. The nicotine vapour inhaler devices are not subject regulation, and fears are growing that people could be subjected to ‘unclean’ and ‘unsafe’ products. The devices hit the headlines earlier this year when it emerged Standard Life had banned its... 

Kuipers inside the Space Station. The Dutch astronaut is one of the most prolific photographers on the ISS An astronaut on the International Space Station has designed a ‘tripod’ for taking spectacular night-time pictures of Earth – quite a technical feat when you’re on board an orbiting craft that moves at more than four miles a second. Andre Kuipers installed ‘Nightpod’... 

“When I stepped to Islam I had the personal impression that it isn’t something like a big change to me but more like a step forward,” Baghajati said. Official figures is showing a dramatic growth in conversions from Christianity to Islam in Austria, contradicting with an increasing discrimination against the religious minority in different European countries. “We see that people have spiritual...