Mother who fled failed marriage faces extradition battle
A mother who fled to Britain with her three children more than a decade ago to escape a failed marriage is facing extradition to America charged with child kidnapping.
Mafia cash in on lucrative EU wind farm handouts – especially in Sicily
An ill wind is blowing over Italy’s green revolution, as the Mafia seek to
capitalise on generous grants for renewable energy.
Natascha Kampusch reveals her full schoolgirl kidnap ordeal in autobiography
Natascha Kampusch, kidnapped aged 10 and held prisoner for eight years, will
reveal in her autobiography the full story of her ordeal.
Irish welfare groups call for cull of thousands of unwanted and abandoned horses
With winter looming and Ireland’s Celtic Tiger boom long past, horse owners
are struggling. Now welfare organisations reluctantly say a cull of
abandoned animals is needed.
ETA declares ceasefire in challenge to Spanish government to open talks
ETA, the Basque separatist group, declared a unilateral ceasefire and said it
will stop carrying out armed attacks to join the democratic process.
A cunning bid to shore up the ruins of the IPCC
The Inter-Academy report into the IPCC, led by Rajendra Pachauri, tiptoes
around a mighty elephant in the room, argues Christopher Booker.
‘You are lucky you don’t have to eat each other to stay alive," plane crash survivors tell trapped miners
Chilean miners trapped deep below ground for a month have heard words of
support from former rugby players who survived by cannibalism after an
Andean plane crash.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may end up as Genghis Khan with a nuclear bomb
Iran will not be shamed into abandoning stoning, or its nuclear ambitions,
says Alasdair Palmer.
Nicolas Sarkozy’s Roma crisis leaves his presidency still teetering on the brink
Nicolas Sarkozy hoped his plan to expel the Roma would help his faltering
presidency back on track. But it has made him even more enemies.
Taxpayers’ money spent to boost Barroso’s profile as Commission president
Journalists’ expenses will be paid if they accompany the European Commission
president on foreign trips, in a new public relations drive which will cost
taxpayers hundreds of thousands of euros.