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Health: Obama wins landmark vote on healthcare overhaul

Obama wins landmark vote on healthcare overhaul

The House of Representatives has backed President Obama’s sweeping overhaul of the US healthcare system. It was a close call with 220 in favour while 215 voted nay. Its a political…

Health

G20: Money ministers reject Brown’s bank tax at the G20Money ministers reject Brown’s bank tax at the G20 Piracy: Spaniards rally for release of pirate-held crewSpaniards rally for release of pirate-held crew Religion: Swiss Muslims open up mosques ahead of minaret voteSwiss Muslims open up mosques ahead of minaret…
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s bid to impose a new tax on global financial transactions has been rejected by the United States at the G20…
Braving heavy rain in the Basque Country, thousands have demanded freedom for the crew of a Spanish trawler seized by Somali pirates. Relatives…
Muslims in Switzerland have held open days in mosques across the country ahead of a controversial vote on whether to ban the construction of…
  1. Lebanon opposition agrees to form government
  2. Two dead after bridge collapses in Andorra
  3. Russian military aircraft crashes in Pacific
  4. Germany remembers the Wind of Change
  5. Berlin gears up for fall of Wall anniversary
  6. Berlin gets ready to celebrate fall of the wall

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: Neukölln puts accent on integration

Neukölln puts accent on integration

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, more than 38 per cent of the Berlin city district of Neukölln is made up of immigrant familes and the unemployment rate in the immigrant community is…

Society: Take the European Route of Roma Culture and Heritage!Take the European Route of Roma Culture and… : Two sides of the wallTwo sides of the wall Festival: Big deals are done at Europe’s Cartoon ForumBig deals are done at Europe’s Cartoon Forum
The story of Europe’s Roma people is a road movie, criss-crossing Europe since their arrival from India hundreds of years ago, but their story is…
Twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, two families reflect on the changes they have seen since the reinforced concrete that divided a…
A Cartoon Forum may sound like fun and games but big business was the order of the day as movers and shakers of the animation world got together in…
  1. Striving for a multicultural society
  2. Ireland’s Lisbon Treaty vote approaches
  3. German elections
  4. Norway crowns Oslo its intercultural capital
  5. europeans: Europe’s green footprint
  6. Intercultural Lyon, republican contortionism

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: Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall 20-years on

Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall 20-years on

1989 saw two of the most dramatic events in recent world history, in June China ordered the crackdown on pro-democracy students at Tiananmen Square, while five-months later the Berlin Wall fell…

Climate: Climate Change and Development: what global response?Climate Change and Development: what global… Lisbon EU treaty: Will the Lisbon Treaty achieve its goals?Will the Lisbon Treaty achieve its goals? Politics: “What’s left for the Left?““What’s left for the Left?“
Two year ago, Rajendra Kuma Pachauri received the nobel peace prize alongside Al Gore for his work at the head of the international group of experts…
When a EU member state adopts the Lisbon Treaty, the ratification document is sent to Italy. If all 27 documents arrive in Rome, the Treaty will…
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and one week before the general election in Germany, two German politicians discuss the end of…
  1. Europe divided over Barroso
  2. Will globalisation break up Europe or help it close ranks?
  3. What future for Guadeloupe?
  4. Two differing views on Gaza from within Israel
  5. Will Africa pay the price of the rich world’s financial crisis?
  6. USA & Human Rights: views from Europe

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Travel: Visa-free EU travel for Balkan states?

Visa-free EU travel for Balkan states?

The European Commission has proposed that citizens from Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia be allowed to travel freely to the EU member countries without a visa from this coming January. Their outlook…

Travel

Politics: Will the pieces of the Lebanese political jigsaw ever fit?Will the pieces of the Lebanese political jigsaw… Immigration: Malta, immigration and xenophobiaMalta, immigration and xenophobia EU Council: EU is seeking for Council PresidentEU is seeking for Council President
20 years after the civil war, Lebanon is still searching for political balance. Within the small Middle eastern country, political divisons have made…
Crossing the sea to a stormy welcome, African immigrants strike Malta. The Maltese feel stretched to their limits, sensitive to allegations of…
After the Irish ‘Yes’ on the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union is creeping closer to having a stable Council President. Former British prime minister…
  1. Airline passengers rights
  2. Italy’s earthquake homeless await winter
  3. Focus on Millenium Development Goals
  4. Where is Germany going?
  5. Parliament’s challenge to Barroso
  6. British Nationalism and Europe

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: Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR President :“Perestroika won, but politically I lost.”

Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR President :“Perestroika won, but politically I lost.”

In 1986, the Soviet regime made the first breach in the Iron Curtain. Mikhail Gorbachev, the new Secretary General of the Communist Party, used the 27th Party Congress to annouce an ambitious…

: Interview with Walter Momper, former Mayor of West Berlin and BerlinInterview with Walter Momper, former Mayor of… : Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leaderWojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist… : Jacques Delors: Former European Commission PresidentJacques Delors: Former European Commission…
Walter Momper was mayor of West Berlin when the Wall came down almost twenty years ago. In the autumn of 1989 city authorities had been preparing for…
Wojciech Jaruzelski was Poland’s last Communist leader. He is a controversial figure, because as Prime Minister he imposed martial law in 1981. He…
“The event was a shock, we had to wait and see if it was going to happen peacefully.” 20 years ago Jacques Delors, then President of the European…
  1. Former Irish President Mary Robinson turns to climate change
  2. euronews meets Mauritania’s Foreign Minister
  3. Ali Larijani : “We build, we develop missiles as a force for deterence.”
  4. Yelena Isinbayeva, Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
  5. Chan defends WHO’s record in fighting H1N1
  6. Interview with Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer

latest space news

Research: Studying the seas

Studying the seas

The circulation of water in the world’s oceans influences the climate. An important factor is the salinity of the water. Global data however, is incomplete. It is hoped that the SMOS satellite will…

Research

Energy: A pocket-sized ecosystemA pocket-sized ecosystem Research: Why Mars?Why Mars? Space: One hundred days of solitudeOne hundred days of solitude
Using organic waste and minerals and the sun as an energy source, pilot project Melissa aims to develop the life support systems essential for…
Thousands of years ago, Mars and Earth probably presented similar primative environments so if life existed on earth, then we can legitimately…
Six volunteers spent 105 days in an isolation module as part of an international experiment in preparation for a manned space mission to Mars…
  1. The space business
  2. Destination Moon, four decades on
  3. Space, Defence and Security
  4. A Window on the Universe
  5. Uncovering Venus’ secrets
  6. 67°4 N, 26°6 E: a polar view

latest science news

Society: Maternal stress can harm unborn child

Maternal stress can harm unborn child

Anxiety is common during pregnancy. But research shows that if anxiety turns to stress, it can affect the unborn baby.

Society

Health: Could worm therapy be answer to allergies?Could worm therapy be answer to allergies? Science: Giant web-spinning spider foundGiant web-spinning spider found Climate: Himalayan glaciers shrinkingHimalayan glaciers shrinking
Our children are just too clean nowadays – or that’s the view of some scientists who believe a lack of exposure to germs and parasites has led to an…
Scientist Matjaz Kunter from Slovenia and his colleague Jonathan Coddington from Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington …
Experts fear that these glaciers in the Himalayas are shrinking. Temperatures here have risen by 1.1 degrees celsius over the last 100 years. The…
  1. Galileo at the Vatican: from heretic to hero
  2. Noah’s Ark of plants reaches first milestone
  3. 400 Years of the Telescope
  4. Paris: Science no fiction:
  5. Dinosaur footprints
  6. Nero’s rotating dining room

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Sculpture: Antony Gormley spins into Beijing

Antony Gormley spins into Beijing

It looks a bit as though a giant spider has been at work in the Galleria Continua in Beijing. But the steel cords are the work of British artist Antony Gormley.

Sculpture

Fashion: Daring to bare: Pakistan’s fashionistas defy TalibanDaring to bare: Pakistan’s fashionistas defy… Festival: Puppet festival: pulling strings in PortugalPuppet festival: pulling strings in Portugal exhibition: Young Brits exhibit at Russia’s HermitageYoung Brits exhibit at Russia’s Hermitage
Karachi Fashion Week has now gone ahead, despite a delay of three weeks over security fears.
Lisbon and its surrounds are playing host to a month-long puppet festival.
It may sound an unusual pairing – St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum and London’s Saatchi Gallery, but these two players from opposite ends of…
  1. Bublé releases Crazy Love
  2. Falling for Spain’s autumnal arts show
  3. Christmas No 1 for The Soldiers?
  4. Mellow Yello
  5. Q Awards chaos
  6. Real life in spotlight at documentary festival