The Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité, or CRS (Republican Security Companies) are outraged at the decision that effectively stops their tradition of having a nice glass of Burgundy with their lunch. According to Paul Le Guennec of the biggest riot police union, Unité Police SGP-FO, the French public had not seemed shocked at the notion of [...]
Due to recent events in Japan that brought forth the inconceivable meltdown of Tepco’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant’s reactors, a deputy environment minister of Germany says that the country is looking forward to phase out all nuclear power in the country before 2020. “A decision has been taken to shut down eight plants before the end [...]
In what the French media are calling a miracle, an 18th month old girl was fell off from a sixth-floor apartment and survives to tell the tale, figuratively of course (she can’t talk yet). The babe was somehow left unattended by her parents, fell off the window and then bounced off the awning of a [...]
Jimi Heselden, famed president and owner of the UK Segway company, the company that brought us the motorised Segway scooters has died after after apparently riding one of his company’s products off a cliff and into a river. Heselden, 62, was pronounced dead at the scene. The scooter was found in the water. The police [...]
Moscow, Russia – In favor of a few exclusive private homes, Europe is standing to lose it’s largest collection of fruits and berries, that is if the Russian court rules that the land is no longer considered a reserve and that it could be sold to property developers. It’s like a textbook case of nature [...]
Prime Minister Julia Gillard issued a statement of her support for Australia becoming a republic and move away from a monarchy, after the Queen Elizabeth II dies. Gillard acknowledges that many Australians had “deep affection” for the Queen, but said that the status quo could not remain. “What I would like to see as prime [...]
Duisburg, Germany – The celebration at the Love Parade music festival in Duisburg turned into tragedy as a stampede at a narrow tunnel leading to the event grounds killed 19 people. Hundreds of thousands of people danced on at the event, oblivious to the carnage at the tunnel, the only entrance to the one-day festival [...]
Paris, France – The IMF has issued a statement cancelling Haiti’s $268 million debt and will lend another $60 million to help the devastated country’s reconstruction plans. The IMF said both decisions formed part of a strategy to support Haiti’s reconstruction plans for long-term reconstruction after the Jan. 12 magnitude-7 quake, which killed as many [...]
Germany – As many as three million people turned up for “Still Life,” a cultural celebration that filled the road way with a giant banquet on picnic tables. And it’s on the authobahn and one of it’s busiest stretches, the crossing through North Rhine-Westphalia state. Germany sure knows how to throw a party. A festival [...]
Italy – Food authorities have confiscated a batch of about 70,000 mozzarella balls which turned blue upon opening, according to officials in the health ministry. Their report had activated the European “rapid alert” system to warn of possible contamination, and announced emergency control measures on the cheese. The tainted mozzarella was spotted by a shopper [...]
