‘Europe’ Archives
Big supermarkets have their wrists slapped »
UK supermarkets have been exposed as price fixing over a a range of dairy goods. Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco were among nine supermarkets and dairy processors today fined almost £50 million for fixing cheese and milk prices over seven years ago. According to an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) four supermarkets, Asda, [...]
Rag to close down – Good riddance »
The British rag, the News of the World, which is famous for writing sensationalist rubbish for the masses, will be on Sunday producing the last edition of the 'paper' News International chairman James Murdoch has said. In the past few days, claims have been made that the paper authorised hacking into the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl [...]
Austrian man finds treasure! »
From Yahoo News: A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure — hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find. Austria's department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, [...]
UK housing to become much more afforable for all »
Panic begins to grip UK housing market as one of the largest house price inflation bubbles pops. House prices have lost touch with the first time buyer market and are out of reach for those crucial first timers. In short, the house price to income multiple is far too high. Indeed, the house price to income ratio is twice its long term [...]
When a doggie paddle can save a life »
AP - They leap from helicopters or speeding boats, bringing aid to swimmers who get into trouble off Italy's popular beaches. For these canine lifeguards, the doggie paddle does just fine. Hundreds of specially trained dogs from Italy's corps of canine lifeguards are deployed each summer to help swimmers in need of rescue. These [...]
Every ash cloud has a silver lining »
By Anthony Page - Ryanair, the 'no-frills whatsoever' airline has seen it's profits fall by 24% this quarter and is blaming the ash cloud that ground European airspace to a halt. The airline has not blamed any of its current or alleged predicted policies such as charging for luggage, charging for checking in, charging to use the toilet, making [...]
Cleaning up a country! »
For Slovenia, April 17, 2010 was marked by a massive national cleaning action, in which the participants cleaned several illegal dumping sites and picked up scattered litter across the country. A group of young people, inspired by a similar action in Estonia in 2008, promoted the idea of cleaning up the entire country - in one day! The idea was [...]
German Fashion Magazine Dumps Skinny Models »
Chanel and Fendi head fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was recently quoted as saying that curvy women have no place on the catwalk, but Germany’s highest-circulation women’s magazine Brigitte says it will stop working with professional ultra-skinny models in favor of ‘real women’ with curves. Brigitte, said last week it would only [...]
Happy Germans mark fall of Berlin Wall »
Happy and joyful Germans on Monday relived the spontaneous breaching of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, as aging Cold War luminaries returned to the once-divided city to celebrate the peaceful outcome of Eastern Europe’s revolution for freedom. Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, and Lech Walesa, founder of Poland’s liberty-seeking [...]
Archaeologists Find Ancient Roman Shipwrecks »
Off the coast of Ventotene in the Mediterranean Archaeologists have found 5 Ancient Roman Shipwrecks which have been found. The ships themselves are between 1,600 and 1,900 years old. The wreckage and their contents have been discovered in grand condition. They established that the ships never actually capsized. The wrecks were in much [...]
