A politician resigning over a decade-old guilty plea for mobile phone fraud might not seem like the story of the year. But when Louise Haigh MP stepped down under a barrage of sensational headlines, I decided to file a complaint with the…
Italian officials have ended free access to the famous Juliet Balcony in Verona that is linked to the famous scene in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and will instead demand a GBP 10 fee from a maximum of just over 1,000…
A top Turkish court has ruled that liking photos of the opposite sex on social media can be accepted as grounds for divorce. A lawyer from the Kayseri Bar Association, Tevfik Imamoglu, said the Yargitay 2nd Civil Chamber confirmed the…
The 82-year-old boss of luxury sports carmaker Porsche has married his 20-years-younger princess girlfriend in a private ceremony, marking his fourth trip down the aisle. Wolfgang Porsche and his long-term partner, 62-year-old Gabriela zu Leiningen, officially tied the knot in…
Smoking cannabis has been allowed again in Munich’s famed English Garden after a court overturned a previous local ban by the park administration. The ruling has been announced after two men challenged the prohibition on consuming cannabis in the English…
The far-right German political party Alternative for Germany has proposed a baby “welcome” payment of EUR 2,000 that would be exclusively for newborns with German citizenship. The proposal, debated in the state parliament in Hannover on 20th November, would apply…
A popular television presenter and celebrity chef has died when the helicopter she was travelling in crashed while spraying crops on a farm. Mynie Steffens, 43, died near Patensie in South Africa’s Eastern Cape on Monday morning, 10th November, along…
A major German TV news channel has been forced to backtrack after it emerged that a trusted Gaza-based partner it had relied on for years was employing an armed Hamas fighter killed in an Israeli airstrike. German public broadcaster ZDF…
News agencies are often seen as stepping stones to bigger careers, but for Shantanu Guha Ray, who had already worked for some of the biggest names in the business, working for an agency meant freedom to do the stories he…
Europe’s most read and most talked about news agency is making a bold bid to change the way information is traded and exchanged in the media industry. As a result Central European News is going to be off air for…