Street clashes broke out between rioting youths and police in central Athens today as tens of thousands demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government. Hundreds of masked and hooded youths punched and kicked motorcycle police, knocking several off their bikes, as police responded with volleys of tear gas and stun grenades. The violence spread after the end of the march... 

Research: Tesco bags don't fully degrade The ‘degradable’ plastic bags handed out in their millions by Tesco are more harmful than those they have replaced, a Government study has found. The carrier bags, which are designed to break down within three years, leave behind tiny plastic particles that could harm birds, insects and mammals. The report also warned the bags can litter the... 

Change of direction: Lib Dem candidate Anna Arrowsmith Now what would a porn master do in politics? Why should it rule over your lives? What does she know about politics? What would she do in the parliament? Direct a group sex scene? This is yet another strong reason to vote for UKIP or BNP! Lib Dems, Cons and Labour are all the same in the UK!! So far, she has been a staunch advocate of all things... 

Burglars should only be jailed if they cause property damage or hurt someone, courts have been told. (Posed by model) Burglars should not be jailed unless they cause damage or hurt someone when committing their crime, Government advisers said yesterday. The Sentencing Advisory Panel called for judges and magistrates not to hand down prison sentences to ordinary burglars who were responsible for ‘minimal... 

Court drawing of Rajib Karim: The BA employee is accused of two counts of planning suicide bombings A would-be suicide bomber worked for British Airways and plotted to take advantage of cabin crew strikes to launch an attack, it was alleged yesterday. Rajib Karim, a trusted IT expert at the airline, planned to volunteer for crew training to help keep flights running during the threatened walkouts. He... 

Three Labour MPs at the centre of the expenses scandal tried to wriggle out of a criminal trial yesterday. Although charged at Westminster magistrates’ court with claiming a combined total of almost £60,000 in fraudulent expenses, they insisted the courts had no jurisdiction over them. Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine argued that, under the 321-year-old Bill of Rights, they could... 

One resident after another is harassed out of their neighborhoods in Amsterdam. This time a Jewish couple in Bos en Lommer is being targeted. Bricks are thrown through their windows, swastikas are being painted on their walls and so on. Before the reporter approaches that couple, he talks with people from the neighborhood to find out what goes on peoples’ minds. He talks to people and finds... 

Pawel in the Warsaw synagogue When Pawel looks into the mirror, he can still sometimes see a neo-Nazi skinhead staring back, the man he was before he covered his shaved head with a skullcap, traded his fascist ideology for the Torah and renounced violence and hatred in favor of God. “I still struggle every day to discard my past ideas,” said Pawel, a 33-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew and former truck... 

Latvia’s ruling New Era party said on Sunday it would appeal against a decision by the Latvian capital’s legislature to ban a demonstration by Waffen SS veterans and their supporters on March 16. The decision to ban the Waffen SS veterans demonstration was made by the Riga Duma on Friday. The New Era party argued on its web site that the ban on the Waffen SS march violated the fundamental... 

As she approaches her 90th birthday, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Deborah Cavendish, fondly known as ‘Debo,’ is preparing to unveil a captivating exhibition at Chatsworth House. The showcase offers an intimate glimpse into the remarkable life of the last surviving Mitford sister, spanning nearly nine decades. Born in 1920, Deborah Cavendish was the youngest among the infamous Mitford... 

The exercise was intended to give the pupils at St Hilary's Primary School an insight into the horrors faced by Jewish children during World War II A group of stunned primary schoolchildren began crying when their teacher told them during a bizarre Holocaust game that they were to be taken away from their families. The pupils, aged 11, became upset after a number of them were segregated and told... 

The main pro-Kremlin party condemned on Friday plans by Moscow’s mayor to display portraits of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in the Russian capital as part of World War II Victory Day celebrations. “The United Russia party does not support Yury Luzhkov’s idea of decorating Moscow with Joseph Stalin posters ahead of the 65th anniversary of the Soviet victory,” the party... 

Anti-Gypsy Wall Elzbieta and Viera, mother and daughter, stand in their garden looking down at the Roma (Gypsy) children tobogganing hilariously in the last of the winter snows. All that separates them is a wall – a new, white concrete wall, 150m (495ft) long, 2.2m tall. Beyond the wall stand the wattle-and-daub, mud-and-twig hovels where many Roma live here in Ostrovany, in eastern Slovakia. “I... 

Marine Le Pen is preparing to take over the far-right National Front from her father Jean-Marie. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the long-serving leader and founder of France’s Front National party, once said that he would never retire. Nevertheless, it’s expected that the 81 year old will step down from frontline politics after the upcoming regional elections. His daughter Marine is his heir-apparent,... 

France’s far-right Front National has upset Algeria, a former French colony, in its latest election poster denouncing “Islamism” and featuring a map of France decked in the North African country’s national flag. French far-right party the Front National (FN) has revealed its latest election poster – a map of France decked in Algerian national colours, covered with minarets and featuring...