Obama slammed the Europeans at an event in Mountain View, California on Monday. US President Obama has given the Europeans a harsh lecture on the dangers of their ongoing debt crisis. Offended by the unsolicited advice, Europeans have suggested the US get its own house in order first. Obama’s remarks were “arrogant” and “absurd,” German commentators say on Wednesday. Europeans... 

France’s UN Ambassador Gerard Araud warned Wednesday, Sept. 28 that Iran runs a high risk of a military strike if it continues on the path to nuclear proliferation. “Some countries won’t accept the prospect of Tehran reaching the threshold of nuclear armament,” he said. “Personally I am convinced that it would be a very complicated operation …with disastrous consequences... 

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton The European Union has criticized Israel for its illegal expansion of settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Tuesday that Israel’s plan to build 1,100 new illegal housing units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) “undermines the talks with Palestinians and should be reversed,” AP reported. Ashton... 

On September 24, Austria celebrated the Day of St. Rupert. Residents of Salzburg on this occasion don traditional costumes, as if implying that there is such a country on the world map. Meanwhile, the process of gaining its own identity was (and remains) extremely difficult for Austria. The reason is the great past of the multinational Austrian Empire and a failed union with the brothers in the language... 

Siderov, who is running for President for a second consecutive time this fall, stated that the presidential building was "a bunker in which Parvanov and his staff are hiding." Volen Siderov, the flamboyant leader of Bulgaria’s far-right Ataka (Attack) party, has tried to force his way into the country’s presidential building and hand out a special declaration to President Georgi... 

Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero at a press conference at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, September 26, 2011, after dissolving the country's parliament. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has dissolved the country’s parliament two months ahead of the next parliamentary elections. Zapatero had earlier in the year announced that he would not seek a third... 

A frightening report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) states that “emergency notices” have gone out to all of Russia’s nuclear power plants warning them that a potential “blast” from our Sun could cause “massive power blackouts” and could even result in “spontaneous atomic explosions.” Prompting this unprecedented warning was our... 

Recently, scientists from Bristol University (UK) and the Carnegie Institution (USA) found that virtually the entire globe is involved in the “production” of diamonds, except, perhaps, the nucleus. In a Brazilian mine minerals were discovered that appear to have formed at the depths of 400-660 kilometers from the surface of our planet.
 Even those who never touched a diamond know that... 

Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister Putin has accepted Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal for him to run for the presidency in 2012, made at the convention of the United Russia party in Moscow. Putin also put forward Medvedev to lead the party’s election list. ­“I consider it to be the right move for the congress to support party’s leader Vladimir Putin as a presidential candidate,”... 

The Phobos-Grunt lander is designed to land on the Martian moon Phobos, return soil samples to Earth, study its physicochemical characteristics, collect data on the origin of Mars moons, Mars atmosphere and the interaction between small bodies of the Solar System and solar winds. Constructors of the Fobos-Grunt probe have revealed details of the space mission to Mars, which is to break a 20-year absence... 

Two experienced Lancashire social workers say that in their estimation there are 20,000 bigamous or polygamous unions in the UK. Ghulam is a taxi driver who lives in Blackburn, a once-booming textile town in Lancashire. He has a terrace house near his local mosque (one of 53 in the area), a silver Nissan car and a very complex private life. For he has so many children that he struggles to remember... 

Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result: Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity is being challenged by findings by the Cern team. Scientists have said they have clocked subatomic particles travelling faster than light – a feat that, if true, would break Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity and undermine laws that underpin physics. The Cern team says a neutrino... 

Standard and Poor's dropped Italy's credit rating from A+ to A. Standard & Poor’s drops credit rating to A from A+, blaming sluggish economy and ineffective government reforms. Italy has had its sovereign credit rating cut by Standard and Poor’s, with the ratings agency keeping the country’s outlook on negative in a surprise move that may add to contagion fears in the... 

A Frenchwoman who wears an Islamic face veil, in defiance of the nationwide ban implemented since April, is aiming to run for president in the upcoming elections next year. Kenza Drider is part of a group of women challenging the law, asserting that it violates fundamental rights, and seeking to defend the rights of all French women. The controversial law banning Muslim face veils on the streets of... 

An influential nationalist leader urged his followers on Wednesday to throw their support behind Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, telling them that they will no longer have to shiver at street demonstrations because the Kremlin will grant them access to executive and legislative power. The leader of the Rodina party (Motherland), Dmitry Rogozin, who is Russia’s envoy to NATO, was speaking about...