Emergency responders were forced to flee when they were targeted with fireworks and projectiles while tending to a fatally-injured person who fell four stories on New Year’s Eve in Brussels, according to reports. The disturbing incident unfolded during a night of chaos in the Belgian capital, as authorities were stretched thin by nearly double the number of calls of years past. Paramedics were summoned... 

This Monday evening, firefighters were the target of projectile throwing and mortar fire during two interventions in Plaisir and Les Mureaux. If they are not directly targeted by this violence, they pay the price by repercussion and have clear instructions not to risk their lives unnecessarily. The ambushes to which the police are regularly subjected sometimes cause other collateral victims. This... 

Problems stemming from Sweden’s openness towards asylum-seekers are, at long last, getting the attention of the country’s mainstream media. Sweden-based academics Bilyana Martinovski and Anders Hellström explain why the press is finally paying attention. On 19 September, journalists from the Swedish national public television broadcaster Sveriges Television AB (SVT) were attacked with... 

Black South African “pastors” at some of the country’s largest African churches have been revealed as running “healing” ceremonies in which congregants are sprayed with insecticide, made to touch and eat live electric wires, eat stones, grass, rats—the latter of which they claim have been transformed into chocolate. The bizarre antics—taking place at churches attended by tens of thousands... 

Recently, scientists from Bristol University (UK) and the Carnegie Institution (USA) found that virtually the entire globe is involved in the “production” of diamonds, except, perhaps, the nucleus. In a Brazilian mine minerals were discovered that appear to have formed at the depths of 400-660 kilometers from the surface of our planet.
 Even those who never touched a diamond know that...