The Blue Lady touched Indian shores in the first week of July. The 38,000-tonne ocean-liner's year-long search for a breaking yard has been dogged with controversies, with groups such as the Ban

April 23 marked the end of the 300-year-old coal mining industry in France. On that day, the last symbolic block of coal was extracted from the La Houve mine near the town of Creutzwald, abutting the

The arena in the medieval French town of Carcassonne was packed to capacity. The occasion: a bullfight after a gap of 50 years. Even as fans cheered wildly inside the stadium, animal

Middle Eastern farmers carried agriculture to the West

the European Union's (eu) efforts to boost passenger and goods transport on railways have not quite succeeded. The Eurostat report on transport infrastructure reveals that railway

A voyage into space for a three dimensional monitoring of the polluted environment

taking into account charges levelled against the French government, alleging that it had downplayed risks to public health after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a judge has ordered that