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The campaign that went too far?
A campaign about the Beijing Olympics produced for Amnesty International France was considered so aggressive by its creators that they decided to call off its release. Too late to stop it from getting to Chinese webusers though... Read more.
The world's dirtiest festival is in Russia
"Nashestvie" is the biggest rock festival in Russia. And many say it's the worst organised. Read more...
The tiger might have been fake but the lies were real
This photo, supposed to prove that the rare South China Tiger's still exists, was published by Chinese authorities last October. While web users immediately recognised that the image was a cut and paste affair, it took officials eight months to admit to their mistake. Read more...
Polish revolution hero Walesa comes under attack
Poland's political community has been thrown into turmoil over allegations that the country's former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa collaborated with the Communist-era secret police and spent years trying to cover it up. Read more...
The rantings of an angry white farmer
While Mugabe's thugs continue to terrorise Zimbabwe, the abduction and brutal beating of a white farmer has reignited another of the country's long standing polemics - what to do with the country's wealthy white settlers. A friend of the victim explains why white farmers are refusing to leave Zimbabwe. Read more.
Italy’s Roma face fingerprinting
One of our Observers for Italy recently alerted us to the news that as part of a major clampdown on "gypsy" communities the government plans to compile a fingerprint database of the country's entire Roma population, including children. Read more...
Deface Jesus and risk doing time
When vandals destroyed pieces of modern art in an exhibition in Moscow, it wasn't the perpetrators who got into trouble. According to the law, their actions were justifiable. Museum director Yuri Samodurov however, is now facing several years in prison for putting on another of the "Christianity-offensive" shows. Read more...
Japan’s young smokers find a way around wrinkle-scanners
Blogger "Pink Tentacle" has written about the discovery by a Japanese reporter that you can trick newly introduced age-verifying scanners on cigarette vending machines by holding up a picture of somebody older. Read more...
The best of Euro 2008
The Euro 2008 in 10 pictures. From England's absence to Spain's first victory since 1964, Franck Ribery's injury and France's disqualification, this championship had its moments. Here's our pick of the best. Read more...
To keep the men away, just cover up
One of our Observers in Egypt received this image in a forwarded email. The message to women: Cover up to protect yourself. We ask our Observers if whether covering up really deters unwanted attention. Read more...
