The week at a glance ... Europe

Stonehenge, U.K.

Sunday celebration: Some 20,000 hippies, ravers, and modern-day druids danced and cheered as the sun rose over Stonehenge this week on the summer solstice. While the prehistoric monument is usually roped off, authorities allow people to walk among the stones during the solstice, the day the sun aligns with the edifice’s Heel Stone, just outside the main circle. “Lots of pagans say they are fed up with the revelers, but I don’t have that view,” said a druid who calls himself King Arthur Pendragon. “Even if they initially come for the wrong reasons, they return for the right ones in the end—it’s the spirit of the place.” Archaeologists believe Stonehenge was originally used as a religious site and astronomical observatory.

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Kicked out: The French were reeling this week from the pathetic and childish performance of their national team in the World Cup. In their first game, their star forward, Nicolas Anelka, cursed at the coach, Raymond Domenech, and was expelled from the team. In protest, the rest of the players declared a strike and skipped their crucial practice, drawing widespread condemnation from the French press. After the team lost to South Africa and was eliminated from the tournament, Domenech refused to shake hands with the South African coach, drawing even more boos. Even before the World Cup fiasco, Domenech was told he would not be kept on as national team coach. “To have the worst football team at the World Cup was already unbearable,” said Le Parisien. “To have the stupidest as well is intolerable.”