East European political leaders and their media allies have attacked ‘politically correct’ Germans in the wake of the New Year’s Eve migrant sex assaults in Cologne and other cities, labelling the assailants “nothing but hyenas”. In a huge “we told
Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine, has published a cartoon depicting Aylan Kurdi — the drowned Syria child who made emotive headlines last year — as a grown man committing sexual harassment on the streets of Germany. “What would Aylan
LONDON (Reuters) – A cabinet minister in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government hinted on Thursday he could back leaving the European Union, saying that to remain in the bloc without significant reform would be disastrous for Britain. “Simply staying in
A Senegalese immigrant with a police record for drug dealing has confessed to the murder of American artist Ashley Ann Olsen, who was found naked and strangled in her apartment in Florence, Italy, last Saturday. The 25-year-old suspect came to
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organisation on Thursday announced an end to the latest flare-up of the Ebola virus in Liberia, a milestone that marks the first time since the epidemic began in 2013 that there have been no
The number of people attending Church of England services each week has dropped below one million for the first time, with Sunday attendance plunging to a record low of just 760,000. The figures from the church’s annual attendance survey show
LONDON (Reuters) – We live in an increasingly dangerous world, with political, economic and environmental threats piling up, according to experts polled by the World Economic Forum. Ahead of its annual meeting in Davos next week, the group’s 2016 Global
With the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) looming, pro-EU voices are already seeking to claim that pulling out of the EU would mean a loss of jobs within the UK. They say that one in ten
East European political leaders and their media allies have attacked ‘politically correct’ Germans in the wake of the New Year’s Eve migrant sex assaults in Cologne and other cities, labelling the assailants “nothing but hyenas”. In a huge “we told
A Syrian couple living in Germany have named their daughter Angela Merkel in honour of the German Chancellor. Mrs. Merkel is widely seen as the project manager of the European policy to allow more than one million migrants into Europe
British Twitter users were in full panic/mockery mode last night as the news emerged that Al Jazeera is closing its American operation “in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace”. The channel, hiply nicknamed “AJAM” recruited what
MILAN (AP) — A Senegalese migrant was detained Wednesday in the strangulation death of a 35-year-old American woman, just hours after crime scene investigators returned to her Florence apartment to search for clues identifying her killer. Ashley Olsen was found
A crocodile has bitten off a woman’s arm in a “death roll” at a creek in a small northwestern Australian town, sparking a hunt to trap and kill the animal on Thursday. The woman, aged in her 60s, was at
Sydney’s iconic Opera House was cordoned off on Thursday in a security scare sparked by “information on social media” with people cleared from the harbour front precinct before police declared it safe. Metal barriers were erected with onlookers kept about
The Zimbabwe government on Thursday denied reports that veteran President Robert Mugabe, 91, had collapsed and died in Singapore after rumours spread rapidly about his alleged ill health. Under the headline “President well, fine”, the state-run Herald newspaper said stories
Suicide attackers struck the Indonesian capital Thursday, with a series of explosions and gunfire that tore through a Starbucks cafe and shook an embassy district in the Muslim-majority nation. At least seven people were known to have died — including
I have no intention of launching an attack on Laurie Penny for her New Statesman article. What good would it do? All I want from her, and feminists who share her views, is that they read I write below and
A woman, who came forward and told her story of being sexually assaulted in Cologne, Germany, on New Years Eve, was victimized a second time after an Internet video gave out her identity and suggested her account of the attack was anti-Muslim propaganda.
The Islamic State suicide bomber who attacked Istanbul on Tuesday, killing 9 German tourists and a Peruvian as well as injuring at least 15 other people, slipped past border security by posing as a Syrian refugee, according to Turkish officials.
German Television station Tele5 has changed its logo today to a German flag emblazoned with the Islamic star and crescent, just weeks after the New Year’s Eve migrant sex attacks in Cologne. Tele5 justified the move on Twitter this afternoon, saying that
As the Rotherham abuse trial continues, Sheffield Crown Court has heard evidence that a corrupt policeman received payment to prevent the arrest of a violent member of a child grooming gang. One of the 12 alleged victims of the grooming gang — known as
German government ministers have agreed on the outline of a new law which, if passed, would make it easier to deport immigrants who break German laws.
Polish authorities have quietly reinstated the European Union (EU) flag at press events, leading to speculation that the country might be wavering in its resolve to face down European Commission’s strong-arming of the new right-wing government. When the newly elected Polish
French police are reporting an avalanche on a piste in Bellecombe Deux-Alpes trail in Isère in the French Alps reportedly engulfed 10 secondary school pupils from Lyon and their teacher at 4pm local time today. Regional French newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré has reported
The government has backtracked on plans to stop teaching feminism as a “major political philosophy” in A-level politics. Following a typically noisy online campaign, feminism “will now be compulsory” and the number of “female thinkers” on the syllabus will be
Austria has seen huge growth in the issue of handgun permits and weapon sales in recent months, following the Paris terror attacks and ongoing European migrant crisis. In Vienna, Austria’s largest city and national capital, the number of weapon permits issued
