Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has strongly criticised his successor’s handling of the migrant crisis, accusing Angela Merkel of having “no plan” in dealing with the influx. In an interview with Handelsblatt, the former Social Democrat chancellor accused Ms Merkel
Scarlett Johansson has told a British newspaper that she has ‘no regrets’ over her decision to become a spokeswoman for the SodaStream company. Speaking to the Observer, the actress said she “stands behind” her decision to resign as a global
UKIP’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the seat of Great Yarmouth faces 10 charges of electoral malpractice, including seven counts of supplying an electoral nomination knowing it contained a forged signature, and three counts of producing forged nomination papers. Police officers
Syrian snipers are intentionally targeting children with the intent to paralyze them, reports The Times of Israel. The paediatric intensive care unit of Israel’s Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya has treated 25 seriously injured Syrian children since last July, delivered to
Bulgaria is effectively selling citizenship for £150,000, according to an investigation by undercover reporters for the Daily Telegraph. As Bulgaria is an EU state, anyone who acquires citizenship there is allowed to settle and work in any other EU country,
The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton, has refused to rule out a European Union-wide boycott of the State of Israel, following questions put to get at a press conference today. Asked as to whether the European
Mafia fugitive Domenico Rancadore on Monday won his battle to avoid extradition from Britain to Italy. Rancadore, known as “The Professor”, was arrested after evading Italian authorities for 20 years. The 64-year-old had been living quietly in the London suburbs.
Convicted terrorists, extremist preachers and dozens of other Islamist activists rallied in East London on Saturday, in a sure sign that the newly founded ‘Need4Khilafah’ group is becoming increasingly emboldened in its anti-Western agitation efforts in the UK. A video
The president of the Irish National Trust has refused to debate a leading sceptic of man-made global warming. Professor John Sweeney of ‘An Tasice, the Irish National Trust’, had been due to debate Dr Benny Peiser of the Global Warming
UKIP have been banned from speaking to students at Derby University ahead of May’s European Elections after the Students Union failed to lift a rule prohibiting the party. The Express reports that the Union have not lifted the veto, despite
A report by Oxfam, a leading international charity, has warned about the richest five families in Britain being wealthier than 12.6m of the poorest Brits. But Oxfam’s claims seem to miss some important analysis behind this trend and what it
The Scotsman newspaper is reporting that Clarissa Dickson Wright, a famous UK TV chef and one half of ‘Two Fat Ladies’ cookery programme, has died at the age of 66. The Scotsman reports: A statement from her agency said she
If Scotland votes for independence it could put the 2015 General Election in doubt and potentially bring down the next government, according to a leading lawyer. Professor Alan Boyle, a specialist in international law at Edinburgh University who wrote the
Crimea’s regional assembly on Monday declared independence from Ukraine and applied to join Russia, saying all Ukrainian state property on the peninsula would be nationalised. “The republic of Crimea appeals to the United Nations and to all countries of the
A group of Islamist agitators clashed on Saturday with members of a British National Party (BNP) splinter group ‘Britain First’ in East London, with police intervening to calm the tensions. Following investigations by the Metropolitan Police over the activism of
Michael Gove is by some distance the most brilliant and effective member of David Cameron’s Cabinet. All right: so maybe this is a bit like being the fastest downhill ski-racer in Jamaica, or the greatest military hero in Italy, or
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Australia took the lead Monday in searching for the missing Boeing 777 over the southern Indian Ocean as Malaysia appealed for radar data and search planes to help in the unprecedented hunt through a vast
Polls opened in Venice yesterday in a referendum on whether the city and its surrounding region should leave Italy and become independent. The five-day-long vote is taking place online and has been organised by activists at plebiscito.eu who are dissatisfied
