Denmark is to make it significantly harder for migrants to obtain citizenship, the country’s government has announced. The Local reports that Inger Støjberg, the country’s Integration Minister, said that Danish language requirements would be stricter and that the government would
Greece should abandon the “catastrophic” euro and return to the drachma, the leader of the country’s new breakaway left wing party has said. Panagiotis Lafazanis, who served as Energy Minister until he was sacked by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, said
The Vatican has ruled that a Spanish man who was born a woman cannot be godfather to his nephew as he is not living a life “consistent with the faith.” The Bishop of Cádiz had originally ruled that Alex Salinas,
An online game called Slave Tetris in which players try to stack as many African slaves as possible on top of one another has been pulled following an angry reaction online. The game was part of project called Playing History:
The European Union has effectively threatened to cut funding to countries like Britain unless they agree to take more refugees. Officials from Austria and Germany said they were considering a plan whereby EU grant spending would be focussed on countries
A Conservative Party councillor is under investigation by council bosses after posting a photo of boat full of naked women with the caption: “If Carlsberg did illegal immigrants”. Mike Kusneraitis, who sits on Runnymede Borough Council, described his post as
A year after it was established, Britain’s national sperm bank has admitted to having just nine registered donors, forcing it to launch an advertising campaign asking men to “prove their manliness” by donating sperm. Laura Witjens, chief executive of the
British Catholics hold a surprisingly liberal view on gay marriage with 50 per cent claiming to support it compared to just 40 per cent opposing, a new survey suggests. Meanwhile UK Protestants are strongly in favour of euthanasia, a practice
The UK is set to become the country with the highest population in the European Union by 2047, according to official EU figures. Britain’s steadily rising population will overtake Germany’s declining population in 32 years’ time, reaching just over 76
Fragments of an early Koran found in a Birmingham library may rewrite Islamic history after carbon dating revealed they could be older than Mohammed. Scientists at the University of Oxford had already revealed that the parchment was among the oldest
A mother who is believed to have taken her four children with her to war torn Syria has been linked to notorious British hate preacher Anjem Choudary. Zahera Tariq was reported missing from her home in Walthamstow, London with her
Fifteen people have been arrested in Spain this month for smuggling migrants across the Strait of Gibraltar on the back of high-powered jet skis. Each smuggler can carry one or two migrants while they make the eight-mile journey from Morocco
Tony Blair launched a secret bid to save Colonel Gaddafi shortly before the Libyan dictator was ousted, a new book claims. A biography of British Prime Minister David Cameron by historian Sir Anthony Seldon alleges that Blair called up Downing
Controversial columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown caused outrage today after tweeting that “toffs missing fox hunting” should shoot migrants instead and “use their skins to make top-price shoes”. https://twitter.com/y_alibhai/status/637202840524615680 The tweet was branded “childish”, “stupidly unpleasant” and “just wrong” by bemused Twitter
A man in Tajikistan has been fined the equivalent of four months’ wages after breaking the country’s law against holding birthday parties in public. Amirbek Isayev was fined 4,000 somonis (£400/$600) for celebrating his 25th birthday at a bar with
More than 500,000 Catholics, including many senior clerics, have signed a petition calling on Pope Francis to reaffirm traditional teaching on marriage and the family after months of confusion over his supposed liberal stance on the issue. The petition, which
British taxpayers will have to fork out £500 million over the next five years to pay for flights home for thousands of illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers. Around £200 million of this will be spent on purchasing airline tickets
The mayor of Venice has said that no gay pride parades will take place in the city while he is in charge. Luigi Brugnaro told Italian daily La Repubblica “there will be no gay pride in my Venice”, describing the
Today’s immigration figures once again show that London has by far the highest rate of immigration in the UK. More than one in four Londoners in 2014 was born outside the UK, while one in five has been identified as
France is to open an official terrorism investigation into the attempted train attack that resulted in three Americans, a French-American and a British businessman tackling Ayoub El-Khazzani as he pulled a weapon. French prosecutor François Molins said the El-Khazzani’s internet
Iran’s religious militia may be about to receive funds via unwitting investors from Britain and other Western nations after taking control of hundreds of companies. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has been accused of sending arms to Hezbollah as
The BBC has been accused of publishing “propaganda” after releasing a 52-page report detailing how families cannot live without its services. The corporation commissioned a study in which 70 households volunteered to go nine days without services funded by Britain’s
Russia briefly banned and then unbanned the entire Wikipedia site today following an outbreak of panic among internet users in the country. A court in the small town of Chyorny Yar had imposed the ban after over concerns that an
There are around 800 Islamist extremists across Europe who have returned from Iraq and Syria and are ready to strike at any moment, Spanish counter-terror sources have warned. Speaking after Moroccan gunman Ayoub El Khazzani was overpowered on a train
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats have scored record support in another opinion poll, confirming previous results that suggest a surge in popularity. The party, which backs much tougher controls on immigration and asylum seekers, has been rising in popularity as the
