They call themselves the True Finns: down-to-earth, hardworking people who love their country but feel neglected by its political elite. They’re tired of bailing out southern Europeans who lived beyond their means. And wary of Somali, Iraqi and other immigrants who are slowly reshaping the homogenous nation of their forefathers, the tenacious Finns who halted the advance of the mighty Red Army... 

Up to 30,000 people chant anti-EU slogans in Zagreb’s main square. Up to 30,000 Croats took to the streets of the capital Zagreb over the weekend to protest against the jailing of two generals for war crimes in the Balkans wars on Friday. Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac are considered national heroes in Croatia. General Gotovina was jailed by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague for 24 years,... 

Vyacheslav Dokuchaev, an employee of the Moscow Institute for Nuclear Research, suggested a sensational hypothesis. He proposed that the so-called “black holes” may contain not only different microparticle matter, but entire planets with living organisms. The scientist suggests that they can rotate within the hole on stable orbits. According to our most common notions, everything that... 

A year ago, the community of reporters of The New York Times launched a website the purpose of which was to let people share their stories about the real Russia. The website contains all sorts of compromising materials, scandals and other negative things which may and may not exist in Russia. One could find a piece of positive news on the website – about the Americans taking part in the Victory... 

Concerns: Councillor John Cave is set to become Britain's first BNP mayor after colleagues voted overwhelmingly for his appointment. A town is to become the first in the country to have a mayor from the far-right BNP, in a move branded divisive and worrying by campaigners. John Cave was chosen by an overwhelming vote to take over the chains of office as next year’s mayor of Padiham, near Burnley. Following... 

Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini on Tuesday said comments made by a fellow minister about dropping out of the European Union were made during the heat of the moment amid a spat over illegal immigration. “I don’t think he said anything about leaving Europe. He expressed strong disappointment , irritation and anger. Europe is and will be an extraordinary opportunity for us,”... 

Kremlin's human rights council, Mikhail Fedotov (photo), said the report was "propaganda material". Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are the three European countries with the worst record on human rights in 2010, the U.S. State Department said in an annual survey released Friday. The survey, “2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” covered 194 countries worldwide, excluding... 

People gather around the scene where a blast occured in Minsk, capital of Belarus, April 11, 2011. Twelve people were killed and 126 were wounded in a blast that struck a metro station in the Belarussian capital Minsk. The authorities said the blast is suspected to be a terrorist act. “126 victims were hospitalized, 22 of them – in serious condition, 30 – are moderately wounded,”... 

The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer “negligible,” according to CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising pregnant women and infants against “risky behaviour,” such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves. In response to thousands of inquiries from citizens concerned about fallout from the Fukushima... 

From Monday, women wearing the full Islamic veil in France could be fined up to 150 euros and be ordered to attend “re-education” classes. The law has already sparked unrest, with police arresting 61 protestors against the law Saturday in Paris. A controversial law banning full face veils in public places in France came into force on Monday. Critics say the law stigmatises Muslims – while... 

A shocking ‘top-secret’ report prepared Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) on their meeting this past week with Prime Minister Putin, in Novgorod region, warns that our planet Earth is ‘under attack’ by an as yet unnamed ‘extraterrestrial entity’ to which President Medvedev has responded by ordering a second regiment of S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft missile system to protect... 

Nearly 60% of people were against the plan. If the referendum would have passed, Iceland’s total population of 318.452 had to pay $5.8 billion in bailout, which means every Icelander would have been forced to pay $18.213, including new born babies, elders and crippled. It’s amazing only 58% voted against the bailout and not 98%. Icelanders have rejected the latest plan to repay the UK and... 

Olga winced as she drew back the bandage on her right breast, revealing an infected puncture wound that hadn’t healed since a man bit her in a fit of sexual rage. But the wound, for which the 19-year-old Moldovan lacked even basic medicine, is only a small part of Olga’s daily agony. For more than a year she has been held as a sex slave in this town in western Macedonia, where human trafficking... 

At least 13,000 cancers in the UK every year are the result of people’s drinking habits, according to one of the largest studies ever carried out into diet and cancer. The research, carried out across eight European countries including the UK, has found that thousands of cancers could be prevented if men had the equivalent of no more than two drinks a day and women had no more than one. Nearly... 

The slaughter of animals by halal or kosher methods could be banned in Holland. The Muslim and Jewish practices inflict unacceptable suffering on animals, campaigners say. A vote will take place later this month. An unlikely alliance of an animal rights party and the Right-wing Freedom Party is heading support for the ban. The Party of the Animals, the first such party to be elected to a parliament,...