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Europe’s banking crisis: Is the rescue too late?
feature Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have apparently reached an agreement on recapitalizing European banks, but they will not provide specifics until later this month.
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United Kingdom: Is the 'boob tax' sexist?
feature The denunciations have been “swift, vociferous, and dismayingly predictable,” said Dominique Jackson at the Daily Mail.
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Italy: An ‘Occupy’ movement turns bloody
feature In more than 80 countries, people marched in solidarity with New York’s Occupy Wall Street without incident, except in Italy, where the protest turned violent.
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Austria: Where child abusers go free
feature Because the alleged abuse happened in the 1970s, the statute of limitations has run out, and no charges can be brought, said Ulrike Weiser at Die Presse.
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Ireland: Welcoming home President O’Bama
feature On his way to a Group of Eight meeting in Paris, Obama made a stopover in Ireland to visit the hometown of his mother’s great-great-grandfather.
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France: Strauss-Kahn’s self-serving apology
feature Dominique Strauss-Kahn gave his first interview since New York prosecutors dropped all charges and allowed him to return to France.
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United Kingdom: Tony Blair lines his pockets
feature Blair has been making millions from speaking and consulting fees around the world, but even so, many were astonished at revelations about his relations with Muammar al-Qaddafi.
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Britain: Now a land of immigrants
feature In England, more than 11 percent of the general population is now foreign born.
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Britain: Murdoch scandal threatens the prime minister
feature Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and his deputy have resigned over the phone hacking scandal. Is David Cameron next?
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United Kingdom: Good-bye to the News of the World
feature The News of the World closed down this week, amid revelations that it had hacked the phone messages of thousands of people.
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Belarus: Where even clapping is illegal
feature It has dawned on Lukashenko that the clapping crowds that have begun appearing recently, seemingly expressing approval of his government, are actually “being sarcastic,” said Nicola Lombardozzi at La Repubblica.
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United Kingdom: Judging each other's patriotism
feature Those people who chose instead to wear a white poppy, which symbolizes pacifism and honors the civilian war dead, were vilified as near-traitors, said Joan Smith at The Independent.
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Spain: Is Basque terrorism really history?
feature The Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or Basque Homeland and Freedom, announced last week that it was giving up violence.
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France: An Italian name for a Sarkozy baby
feature Marine Le Pen, the head of the National Front, professes to be offended that Carla Bruni has called the child Giulia, saying it should have been called Julie, said Hela Khamarou at Le Nouvel Observateur.
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