Article by WN.com Guest Writer Jeff Gates "So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists..." -- Manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik War-making storylines tend to lose their steam. Sustained warfare requires more than just a plausible Evil Doer. A credible narrative is also essential. To remind us who to hate, who better than a murderous Nordic Muslim-hater? Far-fetched? How many Americans had heard of the Taliban before March 2001 when destruction of...
She was one of the most remarkable women of the 20th Century, but Coco Chanel's reputation is again under scrutiny over allegations that she was a Nazi agent in WWII France. To millions of people around the globe Chanel stands for style, opulence and understated elegance, from haute couture worn by...
NEW YORK — The lawyer for the hotel maid who accused former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault says he believes prosecutors plan to dismiss some or all of the charges. Attorney Kenneth Thompson told The New YorkTimes on Saturday that he got a letter from an assistant...
The final breath rattled through Ivan Kanev's sallow, spent torso. For months he had injected eye drops called tropicamide - used medically to dilate pupils - directly into the femoral artery of his groin. The drug is known as "seven-monther" - the amount of time it takes to kill. His body was found...
One of the City's richest and most successful financiers, Michael Spencer, warned yesterday that Icap, the world's biggest interdealer broker, would move overseas if the EU forces through plans for a Tobin tax on financial transactions. Mr Spencer, the chief executive of Icap, told The Independent...
Football teams from 48 countries have arrived in Paris for the ninth annual Homeless World Cup, which kicks off today. Sport, the organisers say, is the best method of rehabilitation. More than 70 per cent of players in previous World Cups have ended up getting jobs or houses or getting over...
In Budapest this summer, you just can't move for Franz Liszt. Coming out of the Parisian-style Muvesz Coffee House on Andrassy, I see the old boy seated in a niche to the right of the opera house. Though Liszt never wrote an opera, there's a statue of him reclining on one side of the main entrance,...
There's a commotion on deck. A muffled voice booms over a speaker. Footsteps rumble down the corridor and then splooosh - the sound of a body hitting the water. For the past 24 hours we have been creeping noiselessly down the Lot River in a solar-powered floating hotel, designed by our captain,...
For the third in our series of Insider's Guides, we head to Cantabria in Spain. Check out these recommendations from Andy McCulloch, regional operations manager at Casas Cantabricas (casas.co.uk), specialists in accommodation and touring holidays in northern Spain. 1 Santander's market, Mercado de...
