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Europe: What the ash cloud can teach us
feature One lesson Europe learned while beset by a cloud of ash is that its business leaders are more resourceful than its politicians.
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United Kingdom: A new face in British politics
feature With the help of voters aching for change, Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, is challenging the usual trajectory of British politics.
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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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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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United Kingdom: WMD conspiracy theory lives on
feature Many still have doubts about the suicide of David Kelly, the weapons expert who disputed the British government's claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed an imminent threat.
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Britain: How one TV show warped an entire culture
feature Big Brother, Britain’s first voyeuristic reality-TV show about a houseful of misfits, comes to an end this week after an 11-year run.
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Britain: Did Scotland Yard collude with a tabloid?
feature In 2006, Scotland Yard had evidence indicating that reporters at News of the World had illegally accessed hundreds of private phone messages and used them as fodder for stories.
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The Vatican: Was the pope’s apology enough?
feature Pope Benedict XVI expressed the church’s “shame and remorse” for the “sinful and criminal” sexual abuse of thousands of Irish children at the hands of priests. Yet as a top Vatican official for decades and as a German arc
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France: Pension reform was the last straw
feature Poor Sarkozy “wanted to be the French JFK,” but now “he looks more like Louis XVI awaiting trial,” said Philippe Marlière in the South Africa Cape Times.
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United Kingdom: Relying on China is a big mistake
feature Last week Beijing briefly suspended rare-earth exports to Japan during a diplomatic row, an action that should serve as a wake-up call to the rest of the world, said Geoffrey Lean in The Daily Telegraph.
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Europe: Hungary’s tide of toxic sludge
feature Hungary’s worst environmental disaster was set off when the wall of a storage reservoir containing liquid waste from an aluminum processing plant collapsed, disgorging nearly 1 million cubic meters of highly corrosive red mud.
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Germany: The failure of multiculturalism
feature Last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel herself acknowledged that Germany has not integrated its Muslim immigrant population.
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Poland: Jail time for wearing a Che shirt?
feature Last week, the government amended the penal code to outlaw the display of communist symbols, said Marek Domagalski in Rzeczpospolita.
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