RELIGION: Danish MP Sees Conspiracy, And Hope

Socialist Danish Member of Parliament Kamal Qureshi says the cartoons controversy was a part of a right-wing conspiracy, but that people are now seeing through it.

BALKANS: Bosniaks Find a Pyramid of Hope

Claims of the discovery of a buried pyramid have brought new hope to a Bosnian town.

HEALTH-EUROPE: Chernobyl’s Elusive Bottom Line

Twenty years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the worst in atomic energy history, governments, international institutions, scientists and environmentalists continue to debate the true extent of the disaster's impacts on human health.

CORRUPTION: EU Fails to Bring Transparency

A proposed new EU watchdog on lobbying will fail to deliver transparency in decision-making, civil society groups say.

RELIGION: Danish Muslims Look to Better Days

Danish Muslims were taken aback by the violence the cartoons controversy triggered around the world. But now many of them are looking to better days ahead - because of the controversy.

BALKANS: Radio Station Bombing Dispute Rises Again

A book by a Serbian journalist has again stirred controversy over the NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia building in Belgrade in April 1999. Sixteen people were killed in the attack.

INT’L LABOUR DAY-FRANCE: Unions Get Younger and Stronger

French unions have grown into their strongest position now in decades, though you would not think that looking at the May Day demonstrations.

INT’L LABOUR DAY-RUSSIA: May Day Again, Sort Of

Tens of thousands will take to streets already lined with workers flags in Russia May Day to demand a better life in all sorts of ways.

INT’L LABOUR DAY: Portugal Opens Doors to East European Workers

Along with Spain and Finland, Portugal will open up its borders on May 1 to workers from the eight central and East European countries that joined the European Union (EU) two years ago.

INT’L LABOUR DAY-SPAIN: Second Class Workers

In Spain and the rest of the European Union (EU), the right to work does not apply equally to everyone. Temporary and informal sector employment, which mainly involves immigrants, forces a large portion of the population to live in poverty, without social security coverage, and facing the risk of deportation because their papers are not in order.

SOCIETY: Germany Confronts a Grey Future

Silent playgrounds, boarded up schools, new old people's homes. What sounds far-fetched is actually a glimpse of the future for many German towns if the country's dwindling birth rate fails to stall.

HUNGARY: Socialist Continuity Bucks the Trend

In the first parliamentary elections since it joined the EU, Hungary has reconfirmed the socialist-lead governmental coalition, in a surprisingly convincing victory that leaves the right wing opposition in a very delicate situation.

ENVIRONMENT-SPAIN: Even Further Away From Kyoto

The Spanish government has promised a plan to halt the accelerating rise in emissions of greenhouse gases. But activists remain unconvinced and are calling for concrete action to reverse the trend that is increasing the country's distance from the targets set by the Kyoto Protocol.

GERMANY: Racist Attack Fuels Fear of Far Right

A brutal attack on a black German has left the victim fighting for his life and has reactivated fears about right-wing extremism in Germany.

BALKANS: Rehabilitation Comes, Too Late for Most

The Serbian parliament has finally adopted a law to restore the reputation of thousands of victims of political and ideological injustice since the days of the Second World War.

FRANCE: Chernobyl Provokes Some Rethinking

The 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has renewed debate over the high French dependence on nuclear power, and the danger it could pose to public health.

ENVIRONMENT-PORTUGAL: Nearly Half of All Species Under Threat

The fragmentation and destruction of rural habitats due to the construction of motorways, dams and urban centres, the modernisation of agriculture, depredation by human beings and diseases are the main threats to biodiversity in Portugal.

RUSSIA: Gay Parade Plan Runs Into Resistance

Moves to hold a gay parade and meeting have run into strong resistance from Moscow authorities and religious leaders.

SOCIETY: School Chaos Reignites German Immigration Debate

Frightened teachers, Turkish and Arabic speaking teenagers swearing at the cameras, police frisking students at the school gates...headlines and television pictures of a violent Berlin secondary school have shocked Germans and fanned the country's already heated immigration debate.

SPORTS: The World Kicks Around in Germany

From Africa to Iceland, from Brazil to South Korea, from Paraguay to Tunisia, a galaxy of foreign stars come to play football in the Bundesliga, Germany's top soccer league.

BALKANS: Slovenia Woken Up To Its Crimes

A tape showing the execution of three surrendering conscripts of the former Yugoslav Peoples Army (JNA) at the beginning of Slovenia's independence war in 1991 has opened new questions over war crimes.