Today brought strange news about France's new prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault: His surname means "penis" in Arabic.
It's not a good time to be an incumbent politician in the economically fragile eurozone. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the soon-to-be-former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will tell you firsthand.
The obscure Dutch politician finds a friend in the right-wing blogosphere
Geert Wilders is acquitted in Amsterdam
They say the contractor hired to support the tree did a shoddy job
The Party for Animals want to ban kosher slaughtering practices
On testing chemicals, a politician's crusade against Islam, and the value of one's voice
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