Pressure is growing on the Irish police to allow a Sikh man training to be an officer to wear a turban on duty.
The man, an IT professional in his 20s training to be part of the Garda Reserve, has been told he must wear a standard issue hat.
Ciaran Cuffe, a Green Party member of Ireland’s [...]

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From the early hours of the morning, 14 Russian jet bombers carried out strategic exersices in international airspace off the Norwegian coast.
- It is the first time since the end of the cold war that the Russian military activity in the North has been at this high a level, says Bodoe Wing Commander Per Egil [...]

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In January 2006 the EU Commission introduced a minimum price on salmon imported from Norway, after Scottish salmon farmers claimed that Norwegian salmon was sold to EU nations at prices below production cost.
Norway has rejected EU claims that the Norwegian salmon industry is subsidized, and that the salmon is sold at dumping prices on the [...]

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The suggestion that a French President, who is of second generation Hungarian Jewish origin may be an (admittedly), unlikely candidate to receive the accolade of the most nationalist head of state, will doubtless seem controversial to the many adherents of the old style nationalist parties across Europe, who have regrettably inherited and furthermore institutionalised some [...]

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An Iranian police official here Saturday said that the law enforcement anti-drug squad has arrested an international band of drug traffickers in Tehran, saying that the gang, which included 85 African drug traffickers, has been totally disbanded.
The Chief commander of the anti-drug squad of the Iranian Law Enforcement police, General Hamid Reza Hossein-Abadi told reporters [...]

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Whether they are poor or rich, white students are scoring higher than their African American and Latino classmates on the state’s standardized tests, results released Wednesday show. And in some cases, the poorest white students are doing better than Latino and black students who come from middle class or wealthy families.
The so-called achievement gap — [...]

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A statue of a bearded Boer trekker gazes sternly across Potchefstroom, a South African university town named after the man who brought the settlers to the area in 1838.
But to the chagrin of the Afrikaners who are Andries Potgieter’s descendants, the ANC-controlled city council yesterday renamed it Tlokwe after the original inhabitants of the region.
It [...]

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Would it surprise you to learn that according to official Pentagon figures, at least 118 U.S. military personnel in Iraq have committed suicide since April 2003? That number does not include many unconfirmed reports, or those who served in the war and then killed themselves at home (a sizable, if uncharted, number).
While troops who have [...]

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Sir Winston Churchill expressed alarm about an influx of ‘coloured people’ in Fifties’ Britain and looked for a chance to restore punishment by flogging, newly released cabinet papers from the national archive reveal.
On 3 February 1954, under the agenda item ‘Coloured Workers’, Churchill is quoted, with abbreviations, by Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook as saying: [...]

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Britain’s face is changing. More than half of all babies born in London last year were the children of foreign-born mothers. Across England and Wales, the figure was approaching a quarter.
Recent polls, including the Ipsos Mori political monitor, last month, have put immigration at number one in the public’s list of concerns. This used to [...]

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