Authorities say that a man from the Ivory Coast, who was in Germany illegally, was arrested this week when German police discovered that he was transporting cooked bats and unrefrigerated fish. The incident occurred in Aachen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia on the border of Belgium, on Monday morning. During a search of a van that had entered from Belgium, a federal police patrol found nearly 2,000... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel: "greatest test for Europe since the collapse of communism" In a dramatic appeal for Europeans to come together to address the common currency crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Thursday that if the euro collapses, so will the idea of European unity. She also described the current euro crisis as Europe’s greatest test since the collapse of communism. During...