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The Australian government announced this year (27.9.11) that women in the armed forces will be allowed to serve in any frontline combat roles by 2016.
While women are prominent in many roles already, as senior officers, crew members on warships, air force pilots, and soldiers in Afghanistan, the move excited debate over security and safety issues for all troops, with two sexes in the ranks. … Read More »
Another social outsider able to keep guns: the attacker who fired on shoppers in Liege on 13.12.11 took six lives with some 100 others hurt. … Read More »
In a busy week for Australian achievers, the singer, song-writer and actor Kylie Minogue received a high honour from a British university, and the ANU astrophysicist Brian Schmidt shared the Nobel Prize for Physics.
GOOD ONE KYLIE MINOGUE
Kylie Minogue, 43, received an Honorary Doctorate in Health Science from the Anglia Ruskin University at Chelmsford in England (6.10.11). … Read More »
World Tourism Day, 27.9.11, may not have been expressly remarked-on around the parks, monuments and beaches, but it passed well in good September sunshine over most of Europe.
The European Union provided a twist on the theme, sponsoring a conference in a former, and celebrated Brussels brewery, on the chances of promoting industrial heritage as a future draw-card. … Read More »
The recent massacres in Norway have highlighted an urgent need for intelligent, well-informed international debate shared challenges of countering violent extremism.
As Shada Islam writes from Brussels, that is the theme of efforts by the ASEM process, (Asia-Europe Meeting), bringing together 48 countries of Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. … Read More »
The E. coli outbreak focused around Northern Germany has caused 17 deaths to date in Germany and one in Sweden, with 2000 people ill in several countries, many seriously. … Read More »
Elections this month (17.4.11) in Finland produced another installment in the rise of support for militant groups against continuing immigration.
Posted by Lee Duffield with research by Haydn Rippon. … Read More »