World Right to life: Spanish abortion law under review Spain’s current legislation on abortion has been in effect for three years. The 2010 law on how late it can be carried out is under appeal in the 01/07/2013
World Lithuania: the fragile revival of the Baltic tiger Lithuania, a country of three million people, takes over the reins of the EU for the next six months. A country ravaged by the economic downturn that 01/07/2013
World MEPs welcome Croatia to the EU club Croatia’s accession to the EU has been hailed by MEPs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The country’s first-ever members, 12 in all, were 01/07/2013
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia: facing political inertia, #JMBG protests call for civil disobedience A four letter word is waking up Bosnia. JMBG, technically an acronym, stands for Jedinstveni matični broj građana, or Unique Master Citizen Number in 01/07/2013
Egypt Egypt army gives Mursi 48 hours to compromise in crisis Egypt’s powerful armed forces issued a virtual ultimatum to Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Monday, calling on the nation’s feuding politicians 01/07/2013
futuris Crohn's disease: the inside story Around 700,000 Europeans are diagnosed with Crohn’s disease each year. Specialists at University College hospital in central London, are exploring 01/07/2013
USA The highly classified leaking Odyssey of Edward Snowden When we look back at 2013 to consider candidates for Person of the Year, Edward Joseph Snowden is likely to be among the leading candidates. The 01/07/2013
USA NSA 'can obtain, store and listen to one billion cell phone calls a day' The United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) possesses brand new technology that enables one billion cell phone calls a day to be redirected 01/07/2013
real economy The growth dilemma Real Economy kicks off a discussion on Europe’s strategy beyond pure austerity, with its first episode on Growth in the European Union. The show 01/07/2013
Culture Croatian brain drain or brain circulation? “I am leaving Croatia because I want to work on a project that can’t be researched here. My project concerns anti-matter and its properties and 01/07/2013
World Back in the Day: the beginnings of the Tour de France July 1, 1903: the first Tour de France bicycle race began. It ran until July 19, consisted of six stages totalling over 2,428km and was won by 01/07/2013
Vatican Pope Francis gets animated A fun four-minute video narrating the life of Pope Francis using cartoons and animation has been published by faith website Catholic Link. It has 01/07/2013
Netherlands Japan and Germany win football's 'RoboCup' 2013 Japanese robots have done what their human counterparts can still only dream of, by winning the ‘Robocup’, a robotics equivalent of the football 01/07/2013
