Serbian president Boris Tadic has announced his resignation, nine months before the end of his presidential term, paving the way for an early presidential election. Serbia’s parliament speaker is expected to call the vote for May 6, the same day that general elections are already scheduled. ­Tadic is set to leave the office April 6, after that Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, the speaker of parliament,... 

The Portuguese Government is convinced that the ongoing austerity measures and economic restructuring will enable the country to return to the credit market in 2013, but recent projections refute this assertion. Foreign politicians and economists predict that Portugal, like Greece, will exit the Eurozone. What do the Portuguese think about this? According to Ernst & Young, if the interest rate... 

Strong words: Prime Minister David Cameron is backing calls for a 'Christian fightback' David Cameron has issued a rallying call for a ‘Christian fightback’ against attempts to ban the wearing of crosses and town hall prayers. The Prime Minister, who joked that he had felt like he ‘needed someone to pray for me’ during the recent rocky period for the Government, used... 

Heavily armed and dressed in black from head to toe, an elite squad of balaclava-clad police commandos storm the homes of suspected Islamic extremists. Officers arrested ten terror suspects in a series of dawn raids across France this morning in a nationwide crackdown a month after seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman. The DCRI domestic intelligence service, supported by police... 

European stock markets have dropped sharply, wiping out gains from the day before, amid fears that the eurozone debt crisis is resurfacing. European stock markets ended lower on Tuesday, with the Spanish stock market the worst hit, as the IBEX 35 index shed 2.7 percent, AFP reported. In Milan, FTSE MIB index also traded over two percent lower and Frankfurt’s DAX and Paris’ CAC 40 slumped 1.05... 

Civil liberties groups have reacted angrily to the British government’s plan to monitor the personal activities of its citizens on the Internet. Under a government plan known as the Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP), Internet service providers will be forced to grant security services easy access to users’ online information. If legislated, the plan will give intelligence... 

A massive fire that engulfed Moscow’s Federation Tower for hours has been put out. Firefighters struggled to tackle the flames in a 300-square meter area of the under-construction skyscraper set to become Europe’s tallest upon completion. The fire broke on the building’s 67th floor (250 meters above the ground) and spread to several sections on the 66th and 65th floors. Fourteen people... 

One month before the presidential elections, France had its newest sensation, a western cowboy style film with the headline “greatest manhunt in history,” showing Nicolas Sarkozy’s tragically pale face with tightly shut lips and wrinkled forehead, worrying about the future of France. His polls were down low lately because French voters judged his political performance as bad, worse,... 

Video: an airport in Szymany, close to Szczytno in northeastern Poland, identified as a potential site which the CIA used to transfer al Qaeda suspects to a nearby prison. Another CIA-run interrogation ‘black site’ has been exposed after the confessions of top-ranking Polish officials blew the lid on the dirtiest secret in Eastern Europe. ­The former head of Poland’s intelligence service... 

A new study has revealed that a little amount of crop pesticides is enough to harm bumblebees and honeybees, and interfere with their homing abilities. British and French researchers conducted two studies to find the reasons for the rapid dropping of bee populations in recent years. Scientists believe the reason was partly related to a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder. They also suggest... 

Riot police took to the streets of Spain as protesters burned bins, vandalized shops and attacked officers during a one day nationwide general strike. Spaniards angry with having the eurozone’s highest unemployment rate refused to go to work in protest at further crushing austerity measures being brought in by the new center-right Popular Party government.  Read More »

President Medvedev today took the unprecedented step today of putting the Federal Security Service (FSB) on its “highest maximum alert” over fears the Communist Party leadership in China is fast losing control over its internal police and military forces leading many Russian intelligence analysts to believe the world’s largest populated nation may be undergoing a coup. The FSB is the main domestic... 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to continue cracking down on the so-called suspected Islamists, comparing the recent Toulouse shootings to the September 11, 2001 incidents in the US. “The trauma… is profound for our country, a little, I don’t want to compare the horrors, a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in... 

13 Years after the NATO Aggression on Serbia – Why does history repeats itself? The 13th anniversary of the NATO aggression on our country. This time, every year, some of us remember…Even if we wish to forget, it is almost impossible, since history has a particularly annoying way of repeating itself and few people actually learn from the past and the mistakes of others. So, only if one... 

A red dwarf star. Scientists have long assumed that the best chance of finding alien life in the universe is on planets similar to ours. The latest scientific discoveries show that there might be tens of billions of such planets in our galaxy alone. ­Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile came to these findings after studying more than a hundred red dwarves, the most common stars...