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Tony Blair: The first president of the EU?
feature Up until a few months ago, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was considered the favorite candidate for the European Union's first president.
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Europe: The persecution of Roman Polanski
feature Acting on a warrant from an overzealous U.S. prosecutor, Swiss authorities arrested the director of Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist as he arrived in Zurich last week to accept a lifetime achiev
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Italy: Berlusconi is not going quietly
feature Italy’s top court has stripped Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of his immunity from prosecution, clearing the way for several corruption cases against him to go forward.
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France: Does the L’Oréal scandal taint Sarkozy?
feature French President Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of accepting cash-stuffed envelopes from L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
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Germany: A tragedy ends the Love Parade
feature Twenty people were crushed to death and more than 500 injured when panic broke out at the Love Parade festival in Duisberg.
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Britain: A murderous child, a broken justice system
feature Jon Venables was 10 when he killed 2-year-old James Bulger. He was released from a juvenile facility at age 19. Now at 27, he has been sentenced to two years in prison for possession of child pornography.
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United Kingdom: How low can Fergie go?
feature A sting by a News of the World reporter captured Sarah Ferguson sellling access to Prince Andrew, Britain’s top international trade envoy, for $700,000.
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United Kingdom: Goodbye Gordon Brown
feature After just three years in office, Gordon Brown resigned as British prime minister, following his Labor Party’s loss to the Conservatives in last week’s elections.
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Germany: An anarchist soccer team playing to win
feature Only once in the past 15 years did the team win enough matches to make it into the top division of German soccer, said Lars Wallrodt in Die Welt.
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Czech Republic: The rise of the mail-order Russian groom
feature In surveys that measure this sort of thing, Russians currently come in third among the most attractive men in the world, “right after Italians and Americans,” said Petra Procházková in Lidové noviny.
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Germany: The president’s ‘cowardly’ resignation
feature President Horst Köhler abruptly resigned after being widely criticized for a provocative comment about the possible need to defend the country's economic interests with military action.
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Britain: Pope’s visit generates reverence and revulsion
feature Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff to make a state visit to Britain.
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United Kingdom: The Labor Party’s Cain and Abel
feature Last weekend’s election for the leadership of Britain’s Labor Party was a neck-and-neck race between David Miliband and his younger brother, Ed.
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Belgium: Maybe we should just join France
feature The national elections three months ago “revealed two utterly different Belgiums,” said Hervé Bajart in Le Monde.
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