Liverpool FC and Juventus had a triumphant beginning

ShareLiverpool FC and Juventus had a triumphant beginning; CS Marítimo hit a club record eight goals past Bangor City FC, but Turkish challengers Galatasaray AŞ and Beşiktaş JK would only draw. Liverpool FC and Juventus projected through their first UEFA Europa League assignments of the of that time but other European heavyweights did not have [...]

Building in Italy collapses killing 3

ShareThree people were killed in their sleep when an apartment building collapsed overnight in a town in southern Italy, police said on Saturday. A 10-year-old girl survived after the collapse, and told firefighters from under the rubble before she was pulled out alive after several hours, Naples deputy police chief Peolo Iodice said. People around [...]

French Woman Admits Suffocating Her 8 Newborns

ShareThe French woman who was detained after corpses of eight newborns were found in her garden has admitted that she suffocated them and concealed their corpses in the garden and garage of her home on Thursday, a prosecutor confirmed. She has been charged with manslaughter for the act. Dominique Cottrez, who is a 46-year-old nurse’s aide [...]

Winston Churchill’s dentures sold at auction in England

ShareA set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill were sold at an auction on Thursday for 15,200 pounds. The partial set of choppers is described as the teeth that saved the world. The upper dentures were crucial for maintaining his distinctively slurred speaking style famous from World War II-era radio broadcasts. His [...]

French Couple Detained For Case Of 8 Dead Newborns

ShareA French prosecutor said on Thursday that charges were to be made against a couple detained after eight dead babies were discovered on their property in northern France. The couple is in their mid-40s and are the parents of the dead babies, a judicial official said. The bodies of the infants were found on two different [...]

Baby Leopards Debut at Paris Zoo

ShareThe birth of two rare Southeast Asian clouded leopards, both making their first appearance recently, was announced by a Paris zoo. The two female cubs were named Pati and Jaya. They made their debut to the public  in recent days at the zoo in the Jardin des Plantes park. The cubs were born on May [...]

Hundreds of Mourners Attend Dolphin’s Funeral in New Zealand

ShareOn Friday, over a hundred of mourners attended the funeral of a teenage bottlenose dolphin that won hearts and sometimes annoyed New Zealand swimmers and surfers with his boisterous antics. The body of the dolphin named ‘Moko’ was placed in a blue coffin bedecked with flowers. The coffin was carried through a seaside town. At [...]

Germany takes Facebook to the Court

ShareOn Wednesday, a German data protection official said he launched legal proceedings against Facebook, as he accused the social-networking site for illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who do not use the website. Johannes Caspar, head of the Hamburg office for data protection, said in a statement that it had initiated legal steps [...]

Industrial Output for Denmark Rises in May

ShareThe Industrial Output in Denmark increased in May from the past month. A report by the Statistics Denmark showed on Tuesday that the industrial production went up to a 4.4% on a monthly basis in May. Year-on-year, industrial output grew 1.9%, but was 20.1% smaller than two years ago. Furthermore, the manufacture of non-durables goods [...]

NYC Subway Bomb Plot Linked With British Plotter

ShareA failed plot to set off bombs in the New York subway station system last year was part of a larger al-Qaida terrorist conspiracy that planned a similar attack in London. The link was announced on Wednesday by US prosecutors in an indictment unsealed. The prosecutors added several al-Qaida figures to the case, which includes [...]

10,000 euros stolen in coins by Italian motorists

ShareA truck with euro 2 million in coins overturned in Italy, sprawling its contents onto the highway and leading motorists to halt and dig in. The incident took place on Monday at Foggia in southern Italy. Police said on Tuesday that it was impossible to establish how much money had been stolen, as many of [...]

Denmark Prosecutor Charges Cartoonist Attacker With Terrorism

ShareOne of the top Danish prosecutors charged a Somali man with terrorism on Friday for allegedly trying to kill a cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. Joergen Steen Soerensen said that the man, who cannot be named under a court order, wanted to “seriously frighten the population” and destabilize Denmark in the attack on cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. The [...]

2 charges for attacking Swedish cartoonist’s home

ShareOn Tuesday, Sweden charged two men with arson for an attempted attack on the home of an artist whose cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad infuriated some Muslims. The prosecutor, Eva-Marie Persson, said evidence found by investigators linked a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old to the case. Both have denied the charges. The prosecution was presented in [...]

Romanians head out to storm palace

ShareHundreds of Romanians tried to storm the presidential palace to protest austerity measures on Friday. At least 600 Romanians were present for the protest as Romania’s top court was expected to rule whether the cuts in public pensions and wages were constitutional. The protestors demand that the President does not approve the large cuts in [...]

Killer flash flood in France leaves several dead

Share Rescuers were kept busy at France’s Cote d’Azur holiday playground on Thursday while digging through mud-filled cars searching for bodies drowned in one of the country’s worst floods in centuries. A new storm brewed and hit the region but this did not hinder the rescuers from continuing their search. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said [...]

World Cup organizers in hot water

Share The current World Cup organizers are now in hot water facing hometown protests and international ridicule as the Netherlands denounce bizaare arrests over a marketing feat, while several South Africans went on to protest the tournament bill. Two Dutch women were charged with ambush marketing because of a stunt featuring dozens of fans wearing [...]

German train collision injures 16 people

Share BERLIN — About 16 people were injured, one of them seriously hurt, in a train collision in northern Germany late evening on Wednesday. Sixty-six people were on board a regional passenger train when it smashed head on with a derailed wagon of the freight train around 11:30pm (2130 GMT). According to Hanover police spokesman [...]

Paul Gascoigne Injured In Car Crash

ShareFormer England football player Paul Gascoigne was taken to a hospital after he suffered from serious injuries due to a car crash in Newcastle on Sunday. Gascoigne is said to have received injuries which were “serious but not life-threatening.” He was a passenger in the car which hit a sign post before it left the [...]

Archaeologists uncover Gladiators graveyard in Northern England

Share80 headless skeletons have been dug up from a northern English building site, and appeared to be the remains of Roman gladiators, Archaeologists said on Monday. One of the skeletons had bites from a lion, tiger, bear or other large animal, they said. The archaeologists said that the bones were believed to belong to professional [...]

Portugal holds first gay marriage

ShareThe two lesbians, who were the pioneers in establishing gay marriages in Portugal, wed on Monday. The two became the first same-sex couple in Portugal to have wed after they helped usher the law in the Catholic-dominated country. The divorced Portuguese mothers, Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao, have been together since 2003. The two are [...]

Danish pharmaceutical company pulls 17 types of drugs from Greek market

ShareNovo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical group, is to pull 17 types of medications for treating diabetes from the Greek markets, it was announced on Saturday. The move is to be made after the Greek government decided to lower the prices of drugs. “The products that are pulled from the market are the latest generation of [...]

Italy ordains first female priest

ShareThe first female priest was ordained in Italy on Friday at a church in central Rome. 35-year-old Maria Vittoria Longhitano is married and belongs to the Italian Old Catholic Church, a small congregation that exited Roman Catholicism in the 19th century. “Catholicism – which means universality – is crippled without women, because one half of [...]

Bomb explodes in Greek city

ShareA bomb exploded outside a courthouse in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Friday. So far, no reports of injuries have been made. The blast took place a half hour after an anonymous warning call was made to a Greek newspaper. The police had evacuated most of the building. The bombing comes less than a day [...]

Rats top invasive mammals table

ShareBrown rats are among the most invasive mammals in Europe, according to a wide-ranging assessment. Swiss researchers found that the creatures, along with sika deer and muskrats, were having the greatest ecological and economic impact. The team considered a range of measurements, including the threats to native species and how widely the alien species had [...]

Spain’s economy coming out of recession

ShareSpain’s economy has emerged out of recession after it grew by 0.1% in the first three months of 2010, the country’s central bank has said. The country was looming in recession for the past six quarters. Earlier this week, official figures showed Spain’s jobless rate had hit 20% for the first time in nearly 13 [...]

Police fine woman 500 euros for wearing burqa in the street

ShareItalian municipal police fined a woman 500 euros ($650) for wearing a full Islamic veil in a street in the northern city of Novara. The municipality banned the burqa in public spaces in January according to a local official quoted by the AFP agency. “City police ticketed her last night and she will have to [...]

Greece transport halts as anti-austerity strike extends

ShareA general strike has been called across Greece as protests against planned spending cuts and tax rises continu. Trains, planes and ferries are at a standstill as transport workers join public sector workers who began their own 48-hour strike on Tuesday. Austerity measures planned in return for a 110bn euro (£95bn) international rescue package for [...]

Italy fines woman for wearing a face-covering veil

ShareA woman wearing a veil over her face, or ‘burqa’, was fined 500 euros, in violation of a local ordinance, an official in Novara, Italy, said on Tuesday.  This was the first punishment of its kind in Italy, but the latest in a wave of sanctions against the burqa in Europe. The woman, a native [...]

Spain Unemployment rate reaches 20%

ShareThe unemployment rate in Spain has reached up to 20% for the first time in almost 13 year, official figures show. At least 4,612,700 people are unemployed in Spain figures calculated up till March show. The calculations were made by the national statistics agency INE. The unemployment rate in the country has risen sharply during the [...]

Museums in Glasgow closed due to staff strikes

ShareSome of the best galleries and museums of Glasgow were closed on Friday due to a 24-hour strike by four different unions over pays and conditions. The Kelvingrove Museum, the Burrell Collection and the People’s Palace, were closed – all of them run by the charity Culture and Sport Glasgow – after strikes were carried out. [...]

Sweden’s Princess Madeleine calls off wedding

ShareThe Swedish Palace has confirmed the split between Princess Madeleine and her fiancé Jonas Bergstorm. This ended the speculation about the two’s relationship which had been going on for weeks now. “Princess Madeleine and lawyer Jonas Bergstrom have, by mutual agreement, decided to end their relationship,” the Swedish Royal Palace announced through the crown’s website. [...]

Toxic metal cadmium to limit in kids’ products: Wal-Mart

ShareThe toxic metal cadmium is a substance that is known to be present specially in children’s jewelry and other kids’ products. It is known to harm bones and kidneys and also known as carcinogen which can be a possible cause for having cancer. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. which is known as the largest retailer said that [...]

Protests rise in Malaysia against former British Prime Minister Tony Blair

ShareAlmost 100 angry protesters showed their discontentment with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who addressed a   business gathering in Malaysia, by stomping on his pictures and burning them as well, on Saturday. The anti-war protesters shouted slogans against Blair’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq and threatened to throw shoes at him if he came near them. The [...]

Recriminations grow over airline costs

ShareThere have been bitter recriminations over the almost week-long closure of large parts of European airspace because of volcanic ash from Iceland. Airlines are seeking compensation from governments over the disruption, said to be the worst since World War II. But scientists have said regulators had few options beyond a ban on flights. Earlier, officials [...]

Baby pictures of the Queen uncovered on her 84th birthday

ShareBaby photos of Queen Elizabeth II which had never been published before will be displayed at Windsor Castle as part of celebrations to mark the monarch’s 84th birthday on Wednesday. The exhibition at the castle will include images of her when she was seven-months old, and posed for for renowned child photographer Marcus Adams in December 1926. She also [...]

Travel chaos persists despite easing of air lockdown

ShareTravel chaos has continued to grip Europe, despite the easing of its aerial lockdown as the Icelandic volcano eruption appeared to wane. The UK has reopened its airports, while some flights have left Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, but airspace in Germany and Ireland remains restricted. More than 95,000 flights were cancelled across Europe in the [...]

Europe’s airlines and airports question flight bans

ShareEurope’s airlines and airports have called for an immediate reassessment of flight restrictions imposed because of volcanic ash from Iceland. Two bodies that represent most of Europe’s airlines and airports say they question the extent of the flight restrictions currently imposed. Airlines that have carried out test flights say planes showed no obvious damage after [...]

Nine dead in Italy train derailment leads to the death of 9

ShareA train derailment in northern Italy on Monday led to the death of nine people Italy’s Civil Protection office said. Earlier, the office said that 11 people had died, but the reports were revised and the death toll was announced to be 9. Almost 20 people were injured, out of which 5 had serious injuries, [...]

Polish leader dies in Russian jet crash, along with 97 others

ShareThe Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of Poland’s highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia. Accompanying him were 97 others who are reported dead as well. The 26-year-old Tupolev were reported to have no survivors, Russian [...]

French casino robbed; armed robbers get $38,000

ShareA crowded French casino was robbed by masked men hold rifles early Sunday. The robbers fired shots at the ceiling, taking off with almost Euro 28,000 ($37,800), police and the casino said. The robbery took place within three minutes, the police said, within the casino called “Le Pharaon” that is located casino in the central [...]

Bomb defused outside North Ireland police station

ShareA car bomb left near a police station was defused by the army in Northern Ireland, the police said on Sunday. The device consisted of containers filled with flammable liquid and was placed on the rear seats of a vehicle left near the gates of the barracks at Crossmaglen, south Armagh, on late Saturday. “Had this device exploded I have [...]

Women hold topless march for ‘equality’ in Maine

ShareAlmost two dozen women united together in Maine’s largest city to promote an equal-opportunity public toplessness, while shedding their shirts and marching downtown. The organizer of the march Ty MacDowell said the point of the march in Portland was that a topless woman out in public should not be attracting any more attention than a man who [...]

Catholic Cardinal rejects sex abuse ‘gossip’

ShareA senior cardinal has said the Roman Catholic faithful will not be swayed by “petty gossip” about child sex-abuse allegations. Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, made the remark in an unusual message of support to Pope Benedict XVI during Easter Mass. The Pope did not mention the scandal directly in his [...]

Search for missing pilot ended by U.S. Navy

ShareThe U.S. Navy said on Saturday that it was calling off the search and rescue efforts for a pilot who went missing after his plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region last month. They declared the missing pilot as deceased. The U.S. Navy said in a statement released on Saturday that Lt. Steven Zilberman’s plane [...]

UK to create world’s largest marine reserve

ShareBritain announced on Thursday that it will create the world’s largest marine reserve by banning fishing around the U.K.-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean, which is a cluster of 55 islands across about a quarter of a million square miles of ocean. Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband that commercial fishing will be stopped around the Chagos Islands to allow scientific research [...]

Australia says commercial whaling plan is unacceptable

ShareAustralia has said that it could not accept the proposal of limited commercial whaling before the International Whaling Commission (IWC), and said it was shocked at the growing support for the plan. Recently, New Zealand, which has been opposing whaling along with Australia, has supported the plan to allow restricted commercial hunts over the next [...]

Moscow prepares to hold funerals for Metro dead

ShareMoscow is preparing to hold funerals for most of the 39 people killed by Monday’s double suicide bombings on the city’s Metro system. Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov has said his group was behind the attacks. In a video message posted on a Chechen rebel website, he said he had personally ordered the operation. He [...]

Lights go out as the world begins ‘Earth Hour’

ShareOn Saturday, Sydney’s Opera House and Harbor Bridge began the Earth Hour by going dark. The routine was followed by cities across Asia, where a global switch-off aimed at revitalizing efforts against climate change was made. The Harbor ferry horns blared to signal the initiation of the energy-saving event. The event was supported by 4,000 [...]

Beta-blockers ‘cut cancer spread’

ShareBlood pressure drugs may be able to reduce the ability of breast cancer to spread around the body, researchers have told a European conference. A joint UK and German study found that cancer patients taking beta-blockers had a lower risk of dying. The drugs may block hormones that trigger the spread of cancer cells. However, [...]

Kensington Palace in London transforms for tourists

ShareThe Kensington Palace, former home of Princess Diana, will be renamed as “The Enchanted Palace” on Friday, to become a popular tourist sight such as Madame Tussauds waxworks and the Tower of London. Along with the name being changed, the interior of the Palace will be transformed with a mix of fashion, performance art, and [...]

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