The retired president of a German state court has accused chancellor Merkel of acting unconstitutionally, and of moving to build her own personal power at the expense of German democracy. Judge Michael Bertrams, former president of the constitutional court of North
The Queen is set to deliver her most Christian Christmas message to date, using her annual address to the British people to underscore her deep-held belief in the continuing role of Christianity in British life. Her words come as Christians
Police stopped suspected Paris bomber Salah Abdeslam three times just a few hours after last month’s attacks but let him go free each time, investigators have confirmed. It was previously thought Mr Abdeslam was stopped just once by a traffic
Eleven of fifteen Muslim men charged in May with the sexual grooming of a 14-year-old girl have been found guilty, after the judged said they treated his court with “contempt and arrogance”. The girl was “raped in car parks, parks and
Tyson Fury has been a personal hero of mine ever since he told an interviewer that “a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back….making me a good cup of tea.” I also was also quite entertained by
Head teachers at international British schools have warned the government that forcing them to promote British values, including gay rights, will put them at risk of imprisonment. However, the government has insisted that they must abide by the standard, saying
The much-vaunted first-of-a-kind rape clinic exclusively for men and boys recovering from sexual assault has been slammed as a fraud and exercise in headline grabbing. Set in Sweden’s Södersjukhuset, Europe’s largest hospital, the clinic promised 24-hours a day, 365-days a year for emergency
The Gare du Nord train station in Paris on Sunday began using security gates and baggage scanners for passengers taking the Thalys high-speed rail system serving Belgium and the Netherlands, SNCF chief Guillaume Pepy said. The Thalys station in the
Up to 300,000 Britons will lose entitlement to in-work benefits if David Cameron accepts a Brussels compromise on his call for strict restrictions on European Union (EU) migrant benefits. The prime minister has been warned that is the price Britain will pay if he continues
Belgian police searched a home in the centre of Brussels on Sunday and made two arrests in connection with a probe into last month’s terror attacks in Paris, federal prosecutors said. Special forces and federal police were involved in a
British Prime Minister David Cameron is planning to send voters a dossier on the benefits of European Union membership ahead of an in-out referendum, British media reported on Sunday. Under pressure from eurosceptics within his ruling Conservative party and many
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA’s ethics committee banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for eight years from all soccer-related activities in verdicts announced Monday. Platini’s bid to succeed Blatter as FIFA president in a Feb. 26 election is now likely ended.
Hungary has accused Austria of confusing “solidarity and stupidity” after Vienna said that nations which do not accept their share of refugees under European Union quotas should face sanctions. Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann had said that countries who did not
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenia rejected on Sunday a law that would give same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children in its second vote on gay rights in four years. About 63.4 percent of voters rejected the law in
German public television aired a segment this month about the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) selling Yazidi women in Turkey.
REUTERS – Tyson Fury, the boxer at the centre of controversy over comments about women and homosexuals, made an apology at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards in Belfast on Sunday. Before tennis champion Andy Murray collected the prestigious
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenians held a referendum Sunday on whether to allow same-sex marriage and become the first former communist nation in Europe to do so. The vote was forced by conservative groups, backed by the Catholic Church, who
An enthusiastically pro-mass migration progressive bishop has been questioned by police over his use of church funds after €430,000 were found to have been misappropriated. Bishop Domenico Mogavero was questioned by Italian financial police on Thursday this week after he
One of David Cameron’s most senior former Cabinet ministers has warned that those who wish to leave the European Union (EU) are not “idiots” and the time has come for the country’s leader to stop touring Europe with a “political begging bowl”. Former
After Poland’s recent elections returned the first single-party government in the country’s recent history, leftist elements in the country have taken to the streets to protest, complaining the government is undermining democracy. Critics say the administration, formed by the eurosceptic
The head of the European Union’s border agency has said the large number of refugees entering Europe poses a security risk, with civil war making it harder to check the authenticity of Syrian passports. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing
Britain, the European Union and various United Nations welfare agencies combined over the past 16 months to build the world’s second-biggest and best refugee camp. The tent city stands in the baking Jordanian desert, 55 miles from the Syrian border, and today it
Jeremy Corbyn, the veteran radical Socialist and leader of Britain’s Labour party has called for US Republican race frontrunner Donald Trump to join him at his favourite mosque to learn about multiculturalism. Speaking in a sympathetic interview with the Huffington Post
Christian communities are being decimated in their traditional homelands across the Middle East. Subjected to persecution, rape and crucifixion by Islamic State terrorists, Church and state must step in to help before they are wiped out, according to George Carey. Writing in the
Prime Minister David Cameron told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper he wanted to see female British soldiers training to fight on the front line in 2016. Cameron has asked the Ministry of Defence to be ready to post women in ground
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – By any measure, it has been a year from hell for the European Union. And if Britons vote to leave the bloc, next year could be worse. Not since 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and
