Poland Nobel poetry laureate Wislawa Szymborska dies
Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska has died of lung cancer at the age of 88. Ms Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, passed away in her sleep at her home in Krakow. The Nobel...
View ArticleDutch Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Links Censored Found To Be Corrupt
Judge Chris Hensen, who ordered the Dutch Pirate Party to censor all links to The Pirate Bay recently (something Techdirt calls Censorship Crazy), appears to have quite a bit of dirt in his baggage....
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Monumental olive trees of the Iberian Peninsula younger than expected
Due to the large size of the olive trees in the Mediterranean region, many experts have claimed that they are millennia old but “there had never been a scientific study to verify this,” as explained to...
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Is Jewish Columbus theory Kosher?
Yesterday marked the 508th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus. Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the...
View ArticleACTA Suffers Final, Humiliating Defeat In European Parliament
Today at 12:56, the European Parliament decided whether ACTA would be ultimately rejected or whether it would drag on into uncertainty. In a crushing 478-to-39 vote, the Parliament decided to reject...
View ArticleGermans want dope legalized and bestiality banned
German Chancellor Angela Merkel may spend much of her time trying to solve the euro zone crisis, but drug use, protection of animals and interpretations of history are more pressing issues for some of...
View Article10 Kilos of Heroin Hidden Inside 30 Korans
Some 200,000 capsules of drugs hidden inside toasties and more than ten kilos of heroin hidden inside 30 Korans were seized on Sunday by Moroccan authorities on board a vehicle preparing to leave the...
View ArticleSpain: Sephardi Jews to receive instant citizenship…500 years after expulsion.
Spain has decided to offer automatic citizenship to anyone who can successfully prove their Sephardi origins. Spain has decided to offer automatic citizenship to anyone who can successfully prove their...
View ArticleMunich: Woman Condemned for Placard Warning of Turkish and Muslim Threat to...
Maria Frank, a 74-year-old woman, who leads an organisation called “Association for the Future of Germany” peacefully gathers signatures calling for a referendum on whether an “Islam in Europe” centre...
View ArticleGreece is facing a humanitarian crisis
The EU’s own poverty standards show that Greece is in crisis. But member states won’t admit their ‘bailout’ was to blame European societies typically assume that humanitarian crises only take place in...
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