Prestigious Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in New York (USA) will transform into a “peace lab” on Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday falling on October two to commemorate International Day of Non-Violence. According to RMA, a “peace lab” is a place that offers opportunities for observation, practice, and experimentation with actions and ideas of peace. RMA’s peace [...]
Laser guns have shot their way into the modern pentathlon competition at the 2012 Olympics. The technology was showcased at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), replacing the standard pellet-firing air pistols for the first time in the sport’s history. Said Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) president Klaus Schormann: “We will have laser shooting for [...]
Discover your arrest warrants and save yourself a lot of trouble and money When did you last check to see if you’ve got any outstanding arrest warrants? You’ve probably never even given it a thought but have you ever thought about what might happen if there are any warrants out on you? One day there [...]
Four newborn babies perished and seven were critically wounded in a fire in a Bucharest maternity ward, setting off a wave of outrage across the country. The daily România Liberă blames Romania’s dilapidated healthcare system: “In two or three days the world will have forgotten the death of these children, while hospitals will continue to [...]
The Israeli ex soldier Eden Abergil posted several photos of herself posing with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees on her Facebook page. The scandal this has provoked also has moral dimensions which states must consider, writes the daily Der Standard: “On the one hand it conveys a frightening picture of the mood in the Israeli [...]
Vitesse Arnhem has become the first Dutch professional football club to pass into foreign hands after Merab Jordania, the controversial Georgian businessman and ex-president of the Georgian Football Federation, bought the club. This dependency on a single person is risky, writes the liberal daily NRC Handelsblad: “It’s clear that Jordania is not acting out of [...]
The German pop singer Nadja Benaissa is currently on trial for having failed to inform her sexual partners that she was HIV positive. The left-liberal daily The Guardian writes that the trial is an exercise in injustice that only serves to divert attention from our own shortcomings in dealing with HIV: “The vast majority of [...]
In Hungary’s parliamentary elections in April the right-wing extremist Jobbik party went from zero to winning almost 17 percent of the vote. Now the party must strike a fine balance between meeting voters’ expectations and daily work in parliament, writes political expert József Jeskó in the online edition of the left-liberal weekly Heti Világgazdaság: “The [...]
The Constitutional Court of Germany has strengthened the rights of same-sex couples, which must now receive the same treatment concerning inheritance tax as heterosexual married couples. The next step is equitable income tax law, writes the left-leaning daily die tageszeitung: “There is no technical reason why lesbian and gay couples shouldn’t file joint income tax [...]
As soon as pilot whales are sighted in the waters off the Faroe Islands the hunting frenzy takes hold of the about 48.000 inhabitants. Boats are launched and pods of whales are herded into the next official hunting bay. There in the shallow waters the killers are waiting, who are overwhelming the helpless animals with [...]
