Gypsy camps destroyed as Italian intolerance flares The Australian | SMOKE rose yesterday from the smouldering ruins of a Gypsy camp attacked by vigilantes in a run-down industrial suburb of Naples in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. | The charred remains of the makeshift wooden shacks, mattresses and belongings at the site in Ponticelli crunched underfoot. Dogs scave...
Child Migrants on Hunger Strike Time Magazine | Europe's increasingly dire struggle with illegal immigration reached a new extreme this month as child migrants held on a Greek island launched a to protest the lack of proper shelter. | Dozens of children aged between 10 and 16 have landed in recent months on the remote island of Leros, near the ...
EU may force car makers to reveal emissions in adverts The Independent | The European Union is preparing to introduce tough new rules on car advertising, forcing manufacturers to include conspicuous and easily understood information about petrol consumption and emissions. | The new line follows the EU's decision to exer...
Picasso's heirs and the mystery of the evil stepmother The Independent | Two of Pablo Picasso's heiresses are suing an author over her book about the artist's second wife, Jacqueline Picasso. | Marina Picasso, a granddaughter of the Spanish artist, and Catherine Hutin-Blay, her stepsister, are suing the journalist Pepit...
Spanish Catholics rise against state on school citizenship lessons The Times | Once they governed an empire, their crusaders and missionaries spreading the faith to newly discovered corners of the world. Today the Catholics of Spain are an angry and fearful group, convinced that the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ...
Jack Black panders to press on news of Angelina Jolie twins The Australian | CANNES, France: Actor Angelina Jolie, pregnant with twins, may decide to give birth in France, she said yesterday at the Cannes film festival, where she was promoting animated film Kung Fu Panda, in which she voices a tigress character. | Jolie, 32...
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Russia: Alleged Georgian spy held CNN | MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Russia's security service said agents detained a spy allegedly recruited by Georgia to support insurgents in the restive North Caucasus, news agencies repo...
Nucor names president of European operations Business Journal > Nucor to form venture with Sidenor [Charlotte] Nucor to invest $658M in steel venture with Duferco [Charlotte] Nucor builds cash, may pursue major purchase [Charlotte] Nucor targ...
European new car sales rebound sharply in April: trade body Turkish Press | New cars sitting on a dealership's car lot. New car sales in Europe have rebounded sharply in April, shwoing a 9.6-percent rise over the same month last year despite global finan...
Truffle kerfuffle grips Italy as rival takes root The Guardian Forever on the warpath against Chinese imitations of its designer clothes and sunglasses, Italy faces an oriental threat to one of its priciest culinary exports, the truffle. | Researchers in Turin were startled to find DNA traces of the Tuber indicu...
Natascha Kampusch is given prison house The Times | Vienna Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian who was held for 8½ years before she escaped and her kidnapper committed suicide, has been given the house where she was held captive. Her lawyer said that she became the owner of the house and yard in ...
68% of Italians want Roma expelled - poll The Guardian | · Government accused of stoking racial tension | · Yobs boast of ethnic cleansing after attacks , Saturday May 17 2008 | Sixty-eight per cent of Italians, fuelled by often inflammatory attacks by the new rightwing government, want to ...
European new car sales rebound sharply in April: trade body Turkish Press | New cars sitting on a dealership's car lot. New car sales in Europe have rebounded sharply in April, shwoing a 9.6-percent rise over the same month last year despite global financial problems and soaring fuel prices, the ACEA European automakers association said. | (AFP/Getty Images/File) | New car sales in Europe rebounded sharply in April, shwo...
Al Qaeda 'Planning Euro 2008 Attack' Infowars | Al Qaeda is planning to attack the Euro 2008 football championships in Switzerland and Austria in June, Swiss police say. | "The Euro 2008 tournament is a target cited by the Islamist terrorist network," federal police spokesman Juerg Buehler told Swiss newspaper La Liberte. | He said messages had been posted on Islamist websites and police were ...
