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Kosovo Civil Society Protests Increased Serbian Influence, November 24, 2008

Thousands of Kosovar citizens took to the streets of Prishtina last week to protest a United Nations proposal to increase Serbia's influence in Kosovo.

Kosovo - Demonstrators Protest U.N. Plan

Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Pristina, Kosovo's capital, on Tuesday to protest the planned deployment of a European Union judicial mission that many ethnic Albanians fear will partition the new country.

European standoff over search engine data - International Herald Tribune

BERLIN: For more than a year, European data privacy officials have been battling with U.S. Internet search engines, trying to get them to conform to European restrictions on the storage of personal information gleaned from the Web.

Now, as the U.S. titans Google, Microsoft and Yahoo continue to retain personal data beyond the six-month time limit established this year by the European Commission, regulators say their patience is running thin.

Adolf Hitler doll which comes with a change of clothes - and a spare head with a kind face

An action-man style doll of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has gone on sale in the Ukraine, with saleswomen comparing the doll to Barbie. Supermarkets in the capital Kiev are stocking the 40 centimetre high figure of the fuhrer, complete with jackboots, leather trench-coat and swastika armband. The £100 figure has a spare head with a kind expression on it, glasses and several changes of clothes.

World |Kosovo Serbs seize UN courthouse

Hundreds of Kosovo Serbs have taken over a UN courthouse in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, raising a Serbian flag to replace the UN's.

House of Augustus opens to public

They say Rome wasn't built in a day - well the house of Augustus took 50 years to restore, at least in part.

In Asian Reaction to Kosovo Declaration, Fears of Secession

China, Indonesia and Sri Lanka on Monday criticized Kosovo s declaration of independence from Serbia while Taiwan and Australia welcomed it, as Kosovo s move appeared a litmus test of attitudes in Asia toward secession.

FT.com / Europe - EU struggles for unity over Kosovo

The European Union struggled on Monday to put up a show of unity over Kosovo, as a majority of member states prepared to recognise the breakaway province s declaration of independence but Spain and Romania condemned its action as illegal.

U.K. conservative angers EU parliament for making Nazi comment

A British Conservative sparked anger at the European Parliament on Thursday by saying the chamber president\\\\\\'s new powers reminded him of tactics used by the Nazi government of Germany to rule without the parliamentary consent

Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow

A vast flotilla of industrial trawlers from the European Union, China, Russia and elsewhere, together with an abundance of local boats, have so thoroughly scoured northwest Africa s ocean floor that major fish populations are collapsing.

Siemens AG paid millions of euros in bribes

MUNICH, Germany -- Scandal-scarred Siemens AG paid millions of euros in bribes to cabinet ministers and dozens of other officials in Nigeria, Russia and Libya as it sought to win lucrative contracts for telecommunications equipment

European whistleblowing

European employees are still fearful of the consequences if they blow the whistle. Big European companies could be doing far more than they claim to be doing to fix the problem.

World |Germans put price on protesting

Young, good-looking, and available for around 150 euros ( 100), more than 300 would-be protesters are marketing themselves on a German rental website.

Long US Work Hours Are Bad for the Environment

"Old Europe" currently consumes about half as much energy per person as does the United States. If Europe were to adopt U.S. practices and increase annual work hours to American levels, the paper shows, they could consume some 30 percent more energy than they do at present. Not only could that impact fuel prices worldwide, but the resulting carbon

No Snow in the Alps: Skiers Wondering When Winter Will Come

Unseasonably warm weather in Europe's Alps has left skiers and snowboarders unable to scratch their winter itch. Meanwhile, the winter tourism industry is suffering, and the Swiss ski team has left for Canada in search of whiter pastures.