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  • Sausage Poshers
    Sausage fans are flocking to a snap up a new type of VIP banger served with caviar in Vienna, Austria, thanks to actor John Malkovich. [...]
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  • Air of the Dog
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  • Pig Brother
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  • Vine King
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  • Umbilical Chords
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  • Culture Killer
    Romanian woman Adina Parvu, 27, is being hunted by police after she went to work at the cultural centre at Suceava County in North East Romania, gave [...]
  • Op Shopped
    A surgeon who let a 15-year-old work experience schoolboy cut into a female patient's abdomen with a scalpel while he was supposed to be watching the [...]
  • Get Miaowt
    Minka the curious moggie caused a real cat flap when she want missing just as builders had finished a 5,000 GBP bathroom makeover at her owners' home. [...]
  • Coffin Up
    The trial started today (Tue) in Hungary of three men accused of organising the theft of a coffin containing the body of billionaire tycoon Herr Flick [...]
  • Pussy Whipped
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  • Oh No Seven
    A James Bond fan was left shaken and stirred when he tried to copy his screen idol and drive his BMW sports car along a railway track to dodge a traff [...]
  • Marine Corps de Ballet
    Draft dodgers avoiding military service in Russia have been given official permission to study ballet instead of signing up for the army, defence offi [...]
  • Hard Top
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  • Family Butcher
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  • Body of Work
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  • Agony and Ecstasy
    Police summoned to an apartment after neighbours called 999 to report terrible screams of agony found a couple covered in cuts and bruises who told th [...]
  • Last Straw
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    A boozing mum who reported her one-month-old son kidnapped because she was too drunk to remember where she left him is facing five years in jail for n [...]

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Latest News

 

Chicago Tribune: Croatias past lives on in modern-day Split
American daily newspaper Chicago Tribune has published this week in its paper an article dedicated to the Croatian city of Split.

Croatian web incubator launched
A new incubator website aimed at building bridges between Croatians in Croatia and in the diaspora has been launched.

International Medicine and Technology Fair set to open
The 39th edition of the International Fair of Medicine, Laboratory and Rehabilitation Equipment and Pharmacy opens in the Croatian capital Zagreb on 17 May together with the International Dental Medicine Fair Dentex.

Legend Michael Phelps supporting Croatians at Olympics
Famous American swimmer and winner of 16 Olympic medals Michael Phelps has called on all Croats to support Croatian Taekwondo sisters Ana and Lucija Zaninovic in their bid for medals at this summer's Olympic games in London

Croatia's Adriatic sea amongst cleanest in the world
Last year, Croatia was ranked second out of 30 countries when it came to the cleaness of its sea water, with only Cypruss ahead. Considering the fact that the quality of the sea water rarely changes, swimmers are set to enjoy yet another year in the clean Adriatic sea, reports RTL television.

Croatia's Adriatic sea amongst cleanest in the world
Last year, Croatia was ranked second out of 30 countries when it came to the cleaness of its sea water, with only Cypruss ahead. Considering the fact that the quality of the sea water rarely changes, swimmers are set to enjoy yet another year in the clean Adriatic sea, reports RTL television.

Davor Suker next Croatian football federation President
After 14 years at the helm of the Croatian football federation, President Vlatko Markovic has resigned, reports daily newspaper Jutarnji list.

Over 300 illegal buildings to be demolished on Kornati
In the next two to three weeks the Croatian Ministry of Construction and Physical Planning will issue 350 solutions for the demolition of about 300 illegally constructed buildings. That is the result of control inspection monitoring, which was conducted within the Kornati National Park in April and May.

Austria wants legal proceedings in Croatia against Sanader
The Austrian Justice System has referred legal proceedings to Croatia against former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader for money laundering after the Croatian judiciary accepted the application of the Vienna public prosecutor.

Finance Minister: Croatian savers can sleep easy
A drop in the credit rating of Italy's banks, including two that operate in Croatia, is no reason for those who have savings with these banks to be concerned and they can sleep easy, said Croatia's Minister of Finance Slavko Linic from Brussels on Tuesday.

 



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