Those who find the French somewhat irritating, which is everyone, will be glad to know you cannot be forced to live in France if you don’t want to. At least if you are British. This week a panel of three…
The city government of Kosice, the second-largest city in Slovakia, voted on Friday to take away the honorary citizenship it granted in 1947 to Josef Vissionariovich Dzhugashvili, also known as Joseph Stalin, apparently having learned a few disturbing facts about…
The former head of a state-owned power company in China, currently on trial for corruption charges, does not seem to have helped his case by reading a four-page apology letter in court this week. While the apology seems to have…
In a result sure to not open the floodgates of missing-skull litigation, a German court has awarded only 3,000 euros ($4,100) to a man who had to have the top of his skull replaced with plastic after a hospital’s error….
Bill Murray was detained by police on Monday after they spotted him driving a "slow-moving vehicle" through downtown Stockholm. The vehicle was a golf cart that had been on display outside Murray’s hotel. He and other VIPs were in Sweden…
This blog might be said to gripe about the U.S. legal system and those involved in it, and the situation in this country sometimes does look pretty awful — except by comparison to most of the rest of the world. …
You end up with a “living Buddha permit.”
Apparently eager to be as democratic as possible now that they have the chance, Hungarians have repeatedly exercised their new ability to put referendums on the ballot. The only ones that have passed so far were the two in which…
Kim Dang Hoon, a South Korean man traveling in India, has filed a complaint against a thief who stole his reading glasses. Kim was visiting Varanasi, a Hindu holy city in the northern part of the country, when the theft…
According to a Belgian newspaper, a local businessman rejected a Nigerian job applicant on the grounds that his dog was racist and would probably bite the man. The applicant was not even allowed to enter the business where he had…