A recent spate of attacks by Roma youths on white people has escalated racial tension in the remote reaches of the Czech Republic. In a region plagued by unemployment, some fear the far right could profit politically. The region of Sluknovsky vybezek is a crooked finger of land protruding from the northern reaches of Bohemia into Germany, not far from the city of Dresden. The inhabitants of the small... 

Former French President Jacques Chirac A French lawyer and former aide to Jacques Chirac says the ex-president of the country and his prime minister received millions of euros in cash from despotic leaders of African nations. Robert Bourgi, who served as an adviser to Chirac and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin before switching sides and joining the conservative camp of French President... 

The sobering details emerging from the rare and unexpected visit to Russia by Prime Minister David Cameron reveal that the British leader “warned” President Medvedev that the United States is “firmly intent” upon unleashing World War III and if not stopped warned the “time of end” has come to us all. According to this report, Cameron’s fears of the US throwing the entire world into the... 

Petteri Alinikula, Nokia's Head of Product Sustainability and one of the testers in action on the Baltic Sea. Finnish cell phone giant Nokia is on a mission to find out how to apply solar power technology to cell phone technology. The company started a project in June called Nokia Solar Charging Project which is coming to its conclusion at the end of September. It sent a group of people on the... 

A pendant some 25,000 years old has been found in the Irikaitz dig in northern Spain’s Basque region by archaeologists from the Sociedad Aranzadi. The piece, an oblong gray smooth stone some 10 centimeters (4 inches) in length, is perforated at one end and apparently was hung from a thong or cord around a person’s neck, according to the director of the excavation, Alvaro Arrizabalaga,... 

The Prince said if the world carries on 'business as usual' then the human race itself could be wiped out. Mankind faces extinction, the Prince of Wales has warned, unless humans transform our lifestyles to stop mass consumption, run away climate change and destruction of wildlife. In his first speech as the new President of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF) UK, Prince Charles suggested ‘surviving... 

The quantity of airlines in Russia must be cut considerably, whereas the training of pilots should be controlled strictly, Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev stated. On September 8, the president visited the crash site of the Yak-42 plane in Yaroslavl, which claimed the lives of 43 people – Lokomotiv hockey players and the crewmembers. Afterwards, Medvedev conducted a special meeting, in which he... 

Astrophysicists of Germany, France and Italy have discovered a very old star in the constellation of Leo, whose existence is a complete mystery to them. SDSS J102915 +172927, unlike other stars of the “same age” that appeared immediately after the Big Bang, has a smaller mass, which does not fit into the framework of the modern theory of star formation. The age of the star SDSS J102915... 

A new study has revealed that dolphins use tissue vibrations to talk to each other, a process very similar to the way humans communicate. Scientists found that whistle like sounds of dolphins are produced by tissue vibrations analogous to the operation of vocal folds by humans and some other land-based animals, MSNBC reported. “When we or animals are whistling, the tune is defined by the resonance... 

In December 2008 a group of Muslims launched an unprovoked attack on a young Frenchman on board a bus in Paris. As they beat him, they shouted insults like “fils de pute” (son of a bi**h) and “Français de merde” (French sh*t). Interestingly, French mainstream media reports mention the first of these insults but not the second. The whole incident was captured by the bus’s... 

Riot policemen spray tear gas as they clash with demonstrators in front of the Greek parliament on June 29, 2011 during a protest part of the 48-hour general strike against the bankruptcy-threatened government which is desperately trying to push through sweeping austerity cuts. Protests have spread across Europe as Greece, Italy and Spain are struggling to hold on to the euro. Meanwhile, residents... 

Protestors march on September 6, 2011 during a demonstration organized by the leftist General Confederation of Italian Workers (CGIL) union against the government's economic policy in the center Rome. Tens of thousands of people are stranded. Factories are closed, airports and train stations deserted. An entire nation comes to a standstill as Italy’s largest trade union, the CGIL, calls... 

Thousands of Spaniards demonstrated in Madrid, as they were upset their governments handling of the economy. Spain. 17th August 2011 Thousands of Spaniards have launched rallies in the Spanish capital Madrid against their government’s austerity measures, Press TV reported. The three-day protest starting on Tuesday was initiated by Spain’s two largest trade unions, the Comisiones Obreras... 

Islamic terrorism remains the greatest threat to Sweden, according to Anders Danielsson, head of Sweden’s Security Service (Säpo). Speaking at a seminar on Monday on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks on the US on September 11th 2001, Danielsson said that the strength of al-Qaeda had been greatly weakened in recent years. The threat from al-Qaeda could be complicated... 

Students demonstrate and hold a placard reading 'We are making the wealth ourselves' during a general strike on May 6, 2011 in the capital Rome. Millions of Italians are set to go on a general strike in the capital Rome to protest fresh austerity measures adopted by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government. The day-long strike will be held against a 45.5-billion-euro package of spending...