In Mazsalaca, Latvia on Sunday, residents identified a large unidentified flaming object from the sky and crashed to form a large crater. However, officials are calling it a giant hoax.

Tony Blinken, national security adviser to Vice President Biden, said that leaders in Warsaw, Bucharest and Prague should think less of what the U.S. can do for them and more about what they can do with the United States.

Estonia’s defence ministry has announced that two more of its soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. This brings number of Estonians who gave their lives for Western freedom to six, out of a contingent of 289.

The Mayor of Riga, the capital of Latvia, is the latest to speak out against the conduct of drunken British tourists abroad.

After escaping the gas showers five times, 90-year-old Felix Brinkman has been murdered in his New York apartment. Two people are wanted in connection with the strangling.

Countries of the former Communist Bloc are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the end of Soviet domination. Russia, after a promising start of opening up about its past under President Boris Yeltsin, has now increasingly adopted a stance of denial.

To deal with the economic crisis, an “army of 500 blondes will try to put a smile back on the face of recession-weary Latvians by staging a festival this weekend designed to show that they really do have more fun."

Tensions are high following a mutiny in the mountainous Caucasian nation of Georgia. Elements of the Mukhrovani tank battalion mutinied this week near the capital, Tbilisi, in circumstances that remain unclear.

According to a British study, the happiest children in Europe live in the Netherlands and in Scandinavian countries. Britain is ranked 24th among 29 countries.

Monuments are made to commemorate just about everything these days, or at least so it seems. Read on and learn about Latvia’s giant effort to commemorate its status as the world’s largest sprats producer.