The F+U Academy of Languages in Heidelberg is one of the largest and most popular language schools in Germany offering classes not only in the leading world languages including Chinese and Japanese but also in a variety of other languages like Hungarian, Bulgarian and Danish, to mention a few. The school, which is situated in [...]
Take a tour through amazing Paris. We visit a world class pastry boutique and a neighborhood hotel in Saint Germaine, then head out for an exciting night on the town – including a stop at the internationally famous music mecca, the Buddha Bar.
Remarks on the French debate on national identity made by former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt have triggered fierce reactions. Today a Member of the European Parliamant, Verhofstadt defends his views in the daily De Standaard: “It is impossible to found a peaceful and prosperous society on a term like ‘identity’. To put it in [...]
A bill currently before the House of Lords is aimed at enabling same-sex couples to get married in church in future. This is another setback as it relegates homosexuals to the already highly unpopular institution of marriage, writes the daily The Times. Better would be to allow homosexual couples the right to legally protected partnerships, [...]
Italy’s public prosecution department issued 56 arrest warrants on charges of money laundering and tax fraud on Tuesday. Fastweb, a subsidiary of Swisscom, and Sparkle, a Telecom Italia subsidiary, have been caught up in the investigations. An estimated two billion euros are alleged to have been embezzled and laundered through fictitious trade operations. The left-liberal [...]
A Bulgarian-Russian summit took place at the end of last week in Sofia, discussing among other things possible Bulgarian participation in the South Stream natural gas pipeline. Valentin Kanev writes in the daily Standart that Russia is putting Bulgaria under pressure: “Russia has been trying to gain control of the Bulgarian gas pipeline network for [...]
Hindus & Jews want European Union to officially declare Roma maltreatment as “apartheid” Hindus and Jews have asked European Union to officially declare Roma maltreatment as “apartheid” and then make all out effort to resolve it. Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich, prominent Jewish leader in Nevada and California in USA; [...]
Greece’s major trade unions are responding to the government’s drastic austerity measures with a general strike today, Wednesday. Commentators criticise the strike, and write that it could also spread to other countries of Europe. Trade unions hurt Greece The strike called by Greek trade union association GSEE is entirely unjustified in the eyes of conservative [...]
The shopping metropolis number one in the Rhine-Neckar region is undoubtedly Mannheim, the second largest city in the South German State of Baden-Württemberg. The “City of Squares” is full of department stores, small designer outlets, shoe shops and fashion boutiques offering the fanatical shopper all of his or her heart’s desires. As most shops and [...]
Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) has been nominated for Hollywood Razzies equivalent “Golden Kela Awards” given annually for the worst performance in Bollywood. American actress-model Denise Richards (The World is not enough) has also been nominated. Both of them are nominated for what is called “BAAWRA ho gaya hai ke Award” (Have you gone CRAZY [...]
