A protest march over the G20 summit descended into chaos last night after demonstrators clashed with police. Activists in Pittsburgh smashed squad car windows, threw bottles at officers and rolled rubbish bins towards them. Protesters, many of whom wore masks, dark outfits and carried red and black anarchist flags, also set up street barricades using [...]
On Saturday, Sept. 19, the Indonesian National Police announced that a DNA test has positively identified a man killed Sept. 17 as Noordin Mohammad Top. Top was killed in a raid on a safe-house in the outskirts of Solo, Central Java, that resulted in a prolonged firefight between Indonesian authorities and militants. Police said four [...]
Recently, there has been a surge in interest in Sanskrit tattoo designs and symbols among Hollywood and other celebrities. Famed British footballer Theo Walcott is the newest one to join “Sanskrit Tattoo Club”. On the inside of his right arm, a Sanskrit tattoo reportedly meaning “Beautiful, Blessed, Strong, Intelligent” is engraved. “Beautiful” is dedicated for [...]
The columnist Seumas Milne argues in the left-liberal daily The Guardian that the current trend of seeing the Soviet Union as co-responsible for the outbreak of World War II has led to a playing down of Nazi crimes, especially in the Baltic states: “The real meaning of the attempt to equate Nazi genocide with Soviet [...]
After months of negotiations the US carmaker General Motors (GM) has agreed to sell its German subsidiary Opel to the Austro-Canadian auto parts supplier Magna and the Russian Sberbank. The buyers plan to slash around 10,000 jobs in Europe. Reports have it that while Opel’s four German plants will stay open, the Belgian plant in [...]
