A beggar on the streets of Venice. The Italian remarks come hot on the heels of Roma expulsions in France Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday... 

French authorities have said the majority are returning on a voluntary basis But as the 124 people landed in Timisoara, in their native Romania, many said they planned to head straight back to France. “Of course I’m thinking about returning to France. Life is better than in Romania,” said 26-year-old Ionut Balasz as he arrived in Romania. Aurel Cioaba... 

Palestinian groups said the images showed the Israeli occupation was "corrupting" A former Israeli soldier has been sharply criticised for posting images of herself on Facebook posing next to Palestinian prisoners. Eden Aberjil had put the images in an album on the site entitled “The army: the best days of my life”. Army officials have condemned... 

A French-language TV journalist, Hugues-Denver (HEWE’) Akassy that he called himself as, has been accused of a number of crimes against the New York women. Earlier, in the last month, he was indicted for exploiting three women. In the first case, he raped a Russian tourist in a park, whom he met at Time Warner Center. In other case, he was found prowling on... 

Traveller minorities blocked the bridge near Bordeaux in protest at plans to remove them Roma (Gypsies) have blocked a major road bridge near Bordeaux in protest after hundreds of them were evicted from an illegal campsite. Around 250 vehicles blocked the bridge for five hours on Sunday, causing tailbacks of up to five kilometres on a public holiday weekend. More than... 

Well, we wondered who would be the first public figure to call Barack Obama “the worst president in history” — an appellation applied to most White House occupants at one time or another. We just didn’t think it would be Dan Quayle’s son. Ben Quayle, 33, who is seeking the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat in Arizona, has cut a... 

A girl who was abducted at the age of 14 was forced to work as a sex slave. This picture is posed by model A girl who was abducted at the age of 14 and forced to work as a sex slave was yesterday praised for giving evidence which saw her abusers jailed. The privately-educated teenager was picked up and plied with vodka and drugs, passed around groups of older men for... 

A federal judge declared California’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional Wednesday, saying that no legitimate state interest justified treating gay and lesbian couples differently from others and that “moral disapproval” was not enough to save the voter-passed Proposition 8. California “has no interest in differentiating between same-sex and opposite-sex... 

Foes want the Obama administration to ban a 1% ‘private transfer’ charge — assessed every time a property is sold for 99 years — paid to investors who backed the home’s original builder. Can you name a housing controversy that pulls Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, consumer advocates, labor unions representing transport workers and government... 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech in Grenoble, French Alps, Friday, July 30, 2010. Nicolas Sarkozy came in Grenoble to install the new prefect after confrontations between youths and policemen, which came after a local resident suspected in the armed robbery of a casino was killed while fleeing police. Four men, including two minors, were detained in... 

Israel's President Shimon Peres said that England's attitude towards Jews was Israel's "next big problem". Israel’s president has accused the English of being anti-semitic and claimed that MPs pander to Muslim voters. Shimon Peres said England was “deeply pro-Arab … and anti-Israeli”, adding: “They always worked against... 

A chilling audio tape with text, circulating by e-mail, has been reported that puts a million dollar price on conservative hero, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head. Is it a coincidence that this was reported on the same day that Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070, became effective? Though the SB 1070 law that has gone into effect is a gutted version of the real... 

The woman was attacked and her veil ripped off outside Central Station A man who ripped a veil from a Muslim woman’s face as she walked though Glasgow has been jailed for two years. William Baikie, 26, admitted racially assaulting 26-year-old Anwar Alqahtani by forcibly removing her niqab in the city’s Hope Street on 27 April. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how... 

Two foreign nationals were raped in two separate incidents in the Eastern Cape, police said on Sunday. A 15-year-old German girl was raped, allegedly by two armed men who broke into a chalet she was sharing with her 14-year-old brother at a bed and breakfast facility in Addo, said Captain Ernest Sigobe. “The men allegedly gained entry by breaking the back window... 

Equal Opportunity by Martin Kozlowski The NAACP believes the tea party is racist. The tea party believes the NAACP is racist. And Pat Buchanan got into trouble recently by pointing out that if Elena Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, there will not be a single Protestant Justice, although Protestants make up half the U.S. population and dominated the court for generations. Forty...