Climate change plea from tribe of herders who face extinction

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. So was his father. And his father's father. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the 1400s.

Tanks return to Red Square as Russia flaunts military might

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Missile launchers and tanks rolled across Red Square yesterday for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, as Russia flexed its military muscles at the annual celebration of its triumph over Nazi Germany.

Berlusconi imposes his authority with cabinet of cronies and beautiful women

Friday, 9 May 2008

Silvio Berlusconi's new government was sworn in yesterday afternoon, completing a changing of the guard from the government of Romano Prodi transacted at blinding speed by Italian standards.

Confessions from the cellar: 'It was great for me to have a second proper family in the cellar with a wife and a few children'

Friday, 9 May 2008

In his first interview since it emerged that Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar beneath his home in August 1984 and forced to her to suffer a nightmare of incest, multiple rape and untreated births that lasted 24 years, the 73-year-old explained from his prison cell that, after the kidnapping, he saw no way out because he had become caught up in a "vicious circle" from which he could not escape.

Putin approved as Prime Minister

Friday, 9 May 2008

Dmitry Medvedev yesterday had his first full day as president of Russia, but television screens across the country were dominated by the familiar face of Vladimir Putin. Mr Putin took just one day's break in between stepping down as Russia's president and becoming its prime minister.

Medvedev sworn in, but Putin still holds power in Russia

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Post-Soviet Russia entered uncharted territory yesterday, as Dmitry Medvedev became President in an opulent ceremony in the Kremlin. He promised to focus on civil rights and the rule of law, using rhetoric markedly different to that of his predecessor, Vladimir Putin.

I am a victim, not a monster, says Josef Fritzl

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Josef Fritzl, the self-confessed Austrian rapist who imprisoned his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered her seven children, insisted that he was "not a monster" yesterday and claimed that he was the victim of a one-sided media campaign to discredit him.

The Big Question: How does the French honours system work, and why has Kylie been decorated?

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Solitary lives of Europeans are leading continent into old age

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Europe is facing a "demographic winter" as pensioners outnumber teenagers and birth rates fall, according to a report by the Institute for Family Policy.

Nazis in, Becker out of German hall of fame

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Germany's sporting lobby has sparked a furious controversy by founding a Hall of Fame to honour the nation's top athletes which includes five former Nazi Party members but fails to mention the likes of the racing driver Michael Schumacher or the tennis player Boris Becker.