A woman charged with drunk driving after being four times over the legal limit has had the case against her dismissed. The woman from upstate New York actually has a rare condition... Read more »

There will be no New Year’s Eve parties in the Gaza Strip after Hamas banned celebrations, saying they went against the region’s “values and religious traditions.” They have also been axed to... Read more »

The EU, European journalists organizations and the OSCE media rep have slammed Poland’s new media law, which gives government more control over public TV and radio and the right to appoint officials... Read more »

Two Spanish police officers have been caught on camera throwing an apparently disabled Moroccan woman from her wheelchair onto the street. They defended their actions, saying she entered the country illegally and... Read more »

Amazon has taken a stand after a wordless anthem from the far-right European anti-Islamization PEGIDA movement temporarily grabbed the number one spot on the German version of the website from Adele’s « Hello ».... Read more »

A string of explosions has rocked the northeastern Syrian city of Kamishli, targeting its Kurdish and Assyrian Christian population. Dozens of people were killed or wounded, according to a Kurdish spokesman cited... Read more »

Turkey must improve its human rights record before it can justify admission to the EU, claims Germany’s Human Rights Commissioner Christoph Strässer, adding that under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the situation in... Read more »

Tehran has officially denied that its Revolutionary Guards’ patrol vessel launched rockets in imminent proximity to the USS Harry S. Truman and its convoy entering the Persian Gulf, calling the allegation an... Read more »

Two million more children will be living in poverty by Christmas in 2030 due to the Conservative government’s austerity measures, according to a study by the Fabian Society and Landman Economics. The... Read more »