French President Nikolas Sarkozy, left and French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, right. France is due to announce tighter fiscal measures, clamping down on tax breaks, as it seeks to restrain its deficit, amid concerns that the country could lose its AAA credit rating. French president, Nikolas Sarkozy ordered the budget and finance minister to pull together the measures earlier this month, after... 

Cheated death: Lucy on the day she came off life-support. A teenager who came out of a coma after a priest put holy water on her head says she owes her life to a miracle. Lucy Hussey-Bergonzi was expected to die after she collapsed from a brain haemorrhage. Her parents called in a Catholic priest to baptise her as they prayed and prepared to say their goodbyes. But as the water touched Lucy’s skin,... 

Russian soldiers hold air defense exercise at Ashuluk training ground in Russia's Astrakhan Region. Six soldiers have been killed and twelve others injured in a blast at a Russian military base in the southern part of the country. The explosion happened on Tuesday when the soldiers were disposing of old munitions on the Ashuluk base in the Astrakhan region, at the mouth of the Volga River, about... 

The cargo vehicle was set to blast off to the International Space Station on August 24, 2011. NASA says the Russian robot spaceship which was carrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) has failed to reach its destination. The Progress 44 cargo spaceship was set to blast off on a Russian-built Soyuz rocket at 9 am of August 24 from the central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in... 

An international survey of 23 countries by Ipsos has found opposition to immigration in numerous countries across the world, with majorities often considering its effects to be negative and its scale excessive. European nations were typical of this trend. Majorities in countries as diverse as Germany, South Africa, Russia, Turkey and the United States were found to consider immigration to have a... 

The Vatican is now preparing us for the big message the US government and NASA are planning to announce soon. This is in anticipation to more disclosure and shocking news soon to be released little by little. Father Jonathan Morris, a corresponded of Fox News channel was the first to report this official conference which is set to be hold soon (an exact date is not yet known) and its results will... 

Seven border guards were killed at Myadninkai checkpoint in 1991. Lithuania has issued European Arrest Warrants for three Russian citizens suspected of taking part in the killing of seven Lithuanian border guards and customs officers in 1991, shortly after they declared independence. The warrants for ex members of the OMON paramilitary police Andrey Laktionov, Cheslav Mlynnik and Aleksandr Ryzhov were... 

Facebook’s ubiquitous ‘like’ button found on countless websites accessible in Germany was declared in violation of the country’s strict privacy laws by a state data protection official on Friday. Thilo Weichert, who works for the data protection centre of the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, said the social network’s application allowing internet users to express their appreciation... 

Two cars burnt by unidentified arson attackers in Berlin on August 18, 2011. Arson attackers in the German capital of Berlin have severely damaged some 50 vehicles on three consecutive nights, arousing concerns that the incidents could be politically motivated. Most of the 50 vehicles damaged since Monday are luxury cars, Financial Times reported. “The arsonists want to hit what they say are ‘Fat... 

For the last decade cancer research has been guided by a common vision of how a single cell, outcompeting its neighbors, evolves into a malignant tumor. Through a series of random mutations, genes that encourage cellular division are pushed into overdrive, while genes that normally send growth-restraining signals are taken offline. With the accelerator floored and the brake lines cut, the cell and... 

Romanian Workers Spain has been given the green light by the EU executive to tighten restrictions on Romanian workers as it struggles with the highest unemployment in the 27-nation block. Spain will now require Romanians to have a work contract before settling in Spain and reverses a two and a half year moratorium that gave Romanian workers unrestricted access as fellow members of the European Union. The... 

Russian senator blames failure of multiculturalism for UK riots. The death of multicultural society and the economic crisis are to blame for the riots that have convulsed London and other British cities this week, head of the Russian upper house’s international affairs committee Mikhail Margelov said on Wednesday. “I think the events occurring in the English cities have at least two reasons.... 

A senior Federal Security Service (FSB) official speaking off the record to reporters this morning in the Kremlin labeled the US social media website Facebook as the world’s most dangerous “Information Warfare Weapon” and stated that unless its powers were curbed the freedoms of everyone on Earth would be stripped away entirely. Important to note is that this top FSB official had previously... 

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Rome has approved a new emergency 45.5-billion-euro austerity plan in response to demands by the European Central Bank (ECB) to balance Italy’s budget by 2013. The Italian government approved the emergency package in line with the ECB request on Friday, despite strong disagreement and resistance from local government officials who maintain that new austerity... 

They descended by the hundreds – black-shirted, bat-wielding youths chasing down darkskinned immigrants through the streets of Athens and beating them senseless in an unprecedented show of force by Greece’s far-right extremists. In Greece, alarm is rising that the twin crises of financial meltdown and soaring illegal immigration are creating the conditions for a rightwing rise – and the July...