EU regulators ban selling or giving away a large batch of kiwi fruit for being very slightly “too small”.

Apparently, calling Scientology “a cult” is illegal in the UK.

Apparently, it is a bad idea for a father to photograph his own children in public.

An older piece on the reversal, from the 1950s onwards, of five centuries of decreasing homicide rates in the UK. Worrying about thieves suing for hurting themselves on barbed wire probably does not help. The Home Office admits a bit of a statistical oops: The Home Office admitted that as many as one in five of the worst attacks has been wrongly classified in published figures.
As many as 4,000 serious assaults each year were mistakenly recorded as minor incidents - and officials conceded they 'simply do not know how far back it goes'. More.

The UK police are offering new identities to victims of (dis) “honour” violence.

Decrying the “Islamization” of Europe.

Filming of a John Travolta/Jonathan Rhys-Meyers film about life in deprived housing estates in France has had to be moved after youths rioted and burnt cars belonging to the production.

A French left-wing philosophy and a nihilist novelist find they have something in common: being “vomited on” by their own country.

In Russia, the 9/11 truthers are getting an airing as part of a surge in anti-Americanism.