Anti-Gypsy Wall Elzbieta and Viera, mother and daughter, stand in their garden looking down at the Roma (Gypsy) children tobogganing hilariously in the last of the winter snows. All that separates them is a wall – a new, white concrete wall, 150m (495ft) long, 2.2m tall. Beyond the wall stand the wattle-and-daub, mud-and-twig hovels where many Roma live here in... 

A woman who has criticized anti-Nazi law and is married to an extreme rightist is running for president in Austria, and critics contend her candidacy could tarnish the reputation of a country still marred by its connection to the Holocaust. Barbara Rosenkranz, 51, is not expected to win the April 25 election, despite her endorsement from the owner of Austria’s... 

Protesters in Greece are demanding that the plutocrats pay The recession has increased the wealth gap to dangerous levels, and George Osborne does not seem serious about tackling it, says Edmund Conway. If you don’t work in the City or in economics, you may not have heard of the annual Mais lecture, which was delivered last night by George Osborne. But it’s... 

Update 5: The IRS gave us this statement: “We can confirm that a small plane hit a building in Austin, Texas that includes IRS offices. This is the Echelon 1 Building, which houses about 190 IRS employees. We are still in the process of accounting for all of our employees. We will be providing updates as more information becomes available.” Update 4:... 

On Feb. 18, 2010, an army colonel backed by mutinous troops overthrew the government of President Mamadou Tandja. What happened? Will the military junta keep its promises to fight corruption? Will the decade old democracy resist this Coup d’état? Niger is a former French colony so what is France’s position on the seizure of President Mamadou Tandja? Watch video... 

Milan Muslim Riots! Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic district of Milan, smashing shop windows and overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian, Italian police said on Sunday. It was the second episode of violence involving immigrants this year, after clashes in southern Italy in January brought about the... 

Radical Islamists and Muslim gang members will gather for a massive protest outside ‘Stortinget’, the Norwegian parliament at 15.00, 12th Feb. after Norwegian newspapers yet again printed drawings of Muhammad the Prophet. There were major riots in Norway a year ago on behalf of the Muslim community after Israel invaded the Gaza strip. Source 1, Source... 

The city of Dresden after Allied air raids in 1945. Right-wing nationalist groups have referred to the Dresden raids as the “German Hiroshima”. Berlin // Dresden is bracing itself for what could be Germany’s biggest neo-Nazi rally since the Second World War tomorrow when the city marks the 65th anniversary of the Allied air raid that devastated it and killed up... 

* NATO body, Council of Europe press Tymoshenko to concede KIEV, Feb 8 (Reuters) – International monitors on Monday urged Ukraine’s Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat to her rival Viktor Yanukovich in Sunday’s presidential run-off vote and shake hands with him for the sake of stability. The election in the ex-Soviet state gave opposition leader... 

Some people never forget a face. For the rest of us, recognizing faces is not so easy. And those with prosopagnosia can’t even recognize their close friends. Now scientists say the ability to recognize faces is inherited and separate from general intelligence or IQ. IQ is strongly heritable. And one longstanding general thought about IQ holds that if you’re... 

President Obama, if the Health Care Reform Plan is so great, why does it EXEMPT* YOU, Michelle Obama, Congress, Senators and their families? *Page 114 Line 22 VN:F [1.8.5_1061]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (2 votes cast) Read More →

Seven Muslim protesters accused of screaming insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade refused to stand for a judge yesterday. The men are alleged to have shouted ‘murderers’, ‘rapists’, ‘terrorists’ and ‘baby killers’ while waving placards at the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment marching through Luton. At...