Glasgow flight skids off runway

A plane coming from the UK has skidded off the runway in the Canary Islands. No injuries have been reported so far."Passengers on a Thomas Cook chartered flight from Glasgow have escaped injury after their plane skidded off the runway at Lanzarote airport. The Air Europa...

En drink och en cigg...ute eller inne?

" Men även om den europeiska antiröktrenden är här för att stanna, lär det dröja innan EU når enighet om totalt rökförbud."De sista tre raderna säger allt...

Golitsyn acerta outra? Putin Ameaça América

Por quê será que Putin está tão p* com um sistema DEFENSIVO ?Anatolyi Golitsyn,desertor russo, escreveu dois livros sobre a falsa democratização do leste europeu ("New Lies For Old" e "The Perestroika Deception") para em silêncio preparar o  que ele chamava de...

An amusing few hours in Barcelona

Iberian Notes on the amusing proceedings of the Catalan parliament: inter alia, the silly criticisms of José Montilla, the new premier, made by Màrius Serra in La Vanguardia.  This is the same Màrius Serra whose newest book's first chapter is available in this...

Dutch elect a not very interesting parliament

The Dutch parliamentary elections will keep the Christian Democrat government in power, probably, although with some portfolios shuffled about, according to Pieter Dorsman at Peaktalk; there is this, also, from Ummah News, but: the Wilders party is so small as to be ignorable...

Twitchers abroad

A brief look at the Euro twitchers and their English brethren; at A Fistful of Euros.

How few Bosnian Catholics will there be in another five years?

CNA notes an interview with the Franciscan provincial superior in Bosnia:The provincial superior of the Franciscans in Bosnia, Father Mijo Dzolan, said last week that because talks over reform of the post-war constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina have collapsed, many Catholics...

Muslim boys desecrate Catholic church in Switzerland

Via BAF, an unsettling, indeed shocking notice of a series of incidents in Switzerland, at Muttenz in Basel: the BAF post title, "How can it have happened that kids decide to smear their excrement on an altar?"  The crime is reported here, at the website of Webjournal.ch...