For some years now expats and travellers in Tokyo have been piling into metro carriages on October 31 to celebrate Halloween. This year however, the masked partygoers were stopped in their tracks by groups of exasperated locals. Read more...

Preying on foreigners and gays and then posting the gruesome evidence online has become all the rage for skinheads in Russia. The growing trend was brought to public attention at the end of July, when a case opened against a gang charged with the daylight murder of 20 people. Read more and see the videos...

Radovan Karadzic is currently under lock and key in The Hague, awaiting his trial, which was adjourned yesterday, until 29 August. His spirit still lingers in the streets of Belgrade however, where a tourist company is launching a tour around his old haunts. Read more and see the tour itinerary...

A relatively unknown jazz singer has caused outrage in the U.S. after unexpectedly singing the "Black National Anthem" in place of the Star-Spangled Banner at a council event in Denver. Read more and see the video.