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United Kingdom: Security debacle at the Olympics
feature The security firm contracted to provide 17,000 guards announced that it would fall short of its target.
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Germany: Should circumcision be a crime?
feature After a 4-year-old Muslim had to be treated for post-circumcision bleeding, a court ruled that circumcising young boys was illegal.
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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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United Kingdom: Why do we hate our children?
feature A recent survey found that nearly half of respondents agreed that children today were “feral” and “like animals,” said Jenny McCartney at The Telegraph.
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Austria: The wrong way to teach Kafka
feature On the very first page of the new edition of The Castle, nine words are misspelled; on the next page, 10 are, said Oliver Jungen at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Ireland: Parting ways with the Vatican
feature Relations between Ireland and the Vatican have been faltering ever since the Cloyne judicial report about the sexual abuse of Irish childen by Catholic priests was published in July.
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United Kingdom: What you need to know to be a citizen
feature The U.K. citizenship exam doesn't require aspiring citizens to know anything of our history or literature, of Britain’s imperial past or traditions, said Libby Purves at The Times.
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Europe: The failure to tackle climate change
feature There are doubts about the likely success of the U.N. summit in South Africa, which met this week to craft a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol.
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Netherlands: Protect the rights of pedophiles
feature An outright ban would “only drive the pedophiles underground,” said Wierd Duk at Elsevier.
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United Kingdom: Kicking God out of public services
feature An uptight atheist, one Clive Bone, is suing a city council for opening its meetings with a prayer, said Cristina Odone at The Telegraph.
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Slovakia: How not to fight corruption
feature It’s a tragedy, really: the Defense Minister's hubris led him to defy the very constitution he thought he was defending, said Martin Simecka at Respekt.
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Germany: A neo-Nazi terror cell
feature Police in Germany have just discovered a group of neo-Nazi terrorists—a National Socialist Underground network—that has been commiting crimes for the past 13 years.
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Italy: The leader we loved to mock
feature Berlusconi mesmerized us, said Massimo Gramellini at La Stampa.
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