Extremists attack Eurosceptic party leader

Published: 26 Aug 2013 09:20 CET

he head of Germany’s eurosceptic party has called for a crackdown on left-wing extremists after he was attacked at a political rally on Saturday.

Bernd Lucke, head of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, was speaking at the rally in Bremen when a…

Merkel: Greece joining euro was a mistake

Published: 28 Aug 2013 14:00 CET 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, a month before elections, that struggling Greece should never have been allowed into the eurozone, blaming her political rivals for letting it happen.

She heaped blame for Europe's debt and recession troubles on…

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange chairman Bronfeld steps down, blames ISA

Denver officials evict murdered woman's family 72 hours after her slaying

Published time: August 20, 2013 19:45

Three days after a Denver woman was brutally murdered, the city’s housing authority evicted her family because the slain woman was the only one on the lease.

Just days after losing a loved one, the victim’s mother and autistic son are now homeless,…

New Jersey to pay $425k to disabled man beaten by police

Published time: August 22, 2013 18:56

Now video of half-naked female Israeli soldiers pole-dancing with a rifle emerges - days after racy pictures of women recruits posing with weapons in their underwear

• Video of half-naked soldiers pole dancing around a rifle posted online
• Latest embarrassment for Israeli army involving semi-dresses recruits
  
  
• Last week, pictures emerged…

Man, 70, has 10cm steel kitchen fork removed from inside his PENIS after sexual adventure goes wrong

• Doctors from Canberra, Australia,  have published a case in which an elderly man 'lost' and entire piece of cutlery inside his body
• Man underwent general anaesthetic and surgeons used forceps traction and 'copious lubrication' to remove the foreign…

HMS Westminster arrives in Gibraltar a day after Spanish fishermen’s stand-off with Royal Navy after going into British waters 

• Warship seen approaching port of Gibraltar at around 7.15am GMT
• Day after fishermen protested over artificial reef at British outpost
• They say the concrete blocks ruin traditional fishing…

Scotland Yard examines new information on death of Diana, Princess of Wales

Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into new claims that Diana, Princess of Wales was murdered by a member of the British military.

Spacecraft sees giant 'hole' in sun

By Megan Gannon

Published July 29, 2013

Norwegian Vikings grew hemp

The Sosteli farmsted, in Norway's southermmost Vest-Agder County, offers strong evidence that Vikings farmers actively cultivated cannabis, a recent analysis shows. The cannabis remains from the farmsted date from 650 AD to 800 AD.

This is not the first sign of hemp cultivation in Norway this far back in time, but the find is much more extensive than previous…

Crewmembers killed as Indian submarine explodes, sinks at naval dockyard

Published time: August 14, 2013 02:47 

Edited time: August 14, 2013 06:48

India’s defense minister has said navy personnel died in a submarine explosion in a Mumbai port. Earlier reports stated that at least 18 people have been on board the submarine that caught fire, exploded and partially sank at the naval dockyard.

The blast happened on the…

Northern Ireland clashes leave 56 police, 2 civilians injured

(Reuters) - Fifty-six police officers and two civilians were injured in clashes in central Belfast in the latest flare-up in tensions between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic communities, authorities said on Saturday.

Many of the injuries were minor, but four officers were taken to hospital after the clashes late on Friday, during which police fired plastic bullets and water cannon after being…

‘Possessed’ by real-life ‘Amityville Horror’ killer, Brazilian boy kills family, goes to school 

A Sao Paulo boy, 13, killed his parents, grandmother and great-aunt, then calmly went to school and committed suicide after classes. He was reportedly inspired by mass killer in Amityville, N.Y.…

Toxic cloud of tar sands waste travels from Detroit to Canada

Published time: August 02, 2013 23:38

A massive cloud of black dust that swept across the Detroit River into Windsor, Canada this week has been linked to piles of petroleum coke, a by-product of tar sands oil illegally stored in Detroit by Koch Carbon.

Though much has already been said of the tar sands oil industry, which is currently experiencing a boom and has spurred…

NSA paid British spy agency $150 mln in secret funds – new leak

Published time: August 01, 2013 15:17 

Edited time: August 01, 2013 16:37

The NSA has made hush-hush payments of at least $150 million to Britain’s GCHQ spying agency over the past three years to influence British intelligence gathering operations. The payouts were revealed in new Snowden leaks published by The…