Belgium and the Netherlands are considering extending their already liberal laws on euthanasia to patients with dementia. Both countries have taken steps to liberalising rules which allow people to choose when to die and with medical support, with Belgium mulling […]
As the teenage defendant filed into the courtroom she glanced back to acknowledge the women lined up in the last row of the public gallery. Each had a gag over their mouths with an image of stitched-up lips, in a […]
For 28-year old pro-Kremlin activist Yegor Litvinenko Russian President Vladimir Putin is “perfect” to the point where a future without Russia’s strongman is almost unthinkable – after all, he has known no other leader in his living memory. Click Here: […]
About an hour before midnight on December 31, 1999, Akhmat looked up into the night sky and tried to pin-point the sound of a helicopter flying low and fast over the shattered city of Grozny. But it was an overcast […]
It was intended to be a sun-soaked working holiday, a rite of passage between finishing school and starting university. Instead, it turned into a nightmare. When a British teenager arrived in the hedonistic party town of Ayia Napa in Cyprus […]
The howls of a young man who had dislocated his knee during one of the many street clashes of the six-month-long Hong Kong protest movement still haunt Alvin, a Chinese medicine practitioner who treated his discomfort. “I remember him because […]
Car lovers who say they are sick of being blamed for climate change have started one of the fastest growing movements in Germany. Calling themselves Fridays for Horsepower, they have signed up more than 566,000 members — more than the […]
A farm in southwestern France has become the first to produce "naturally fattened goose liver” whose inventors say is an entirely “ethical” alternative to foie gras as it removes the need for force feeding. Instead of spending weeks thrusting tubes […]
About a mile off north-east Corfu, terns, cormorants and the island’s last colony of rock doves wheel over a rocky islet that was formed, legend has it, when a furious Poseidon turned the ship that had delivered Odysseus home into […]
Raging wildfires threatened Christmas plans for thousands of Australians after strict emergency travel bans were introduced following a string of deaths. As of Saturday night ‘catastrophic’ fire warnings are in place across New South Wales, where more than 3,000 fire fighters […]