Russia halts gas supplies to Europe while blaming The Ukraine for stealing gas from the pipeline. Putin adds fuel with theatrics during TV interview.

A very cold front, expected to last all week until Sunday, is causing great hardship in eastern-European countries, mainly because of the Ukrainian-Russian gasbill row. in Romania, Poland and Hungary, at least nine people have been found frozen to death.

With eastern-European countries increasingly suffering from the gas-payments row between the Ukraine and Russia, Dutch economists are accusing Ukraine of turning their annual row over their unpaid gas bill into an unsavoury political crisis.

Thousands of Indians from the Portuguese colonies have gone to Europe and settled there after acquiring Portuguese citizenship. A Portuguese citizenship, gives them passage to work and settle anywhere in Europe as European citizens.

Talk about not knowing right from left, read all about this Romanian woman who gave birth to a baby girl but returned home from the hospital with a baby boy. Someone it would seem needs a lesson about the birds and the bees.

In some parts of the world it would appear that positively everything is for sale as evidenced by this young husband who put his wife up for sale on a website specializing in used cars. Read on, whether you are married or single.

A Romanian horse was deliberately pumped full with alcohol and subjected to blood tests by local authorities after it went out of control and caused a man’s death. Read on whether you prefer tea, coffee or more forceful spirits soaked in grain.

At least 4,146 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March of 2003 according to an Associated Press count.

Another Olympics controversy strikes China, and this time there are reports that claim China used underage gymnasts in their gold-medal winning team.

The US has a thriving, if dubious, export business in “contract cheating.” This is the writing of student papers and course work for money. The UK is a major market for the US. However, this lucrative export trade is under threat from globalization.