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The Norwegian Interior Ministry has raised the alarm about the overcrowding of prisons with foreigners. According to official data, out of 3,340 people serving sentences in the northernmost kingdom…
From now on, motorists traveling in the United States can calculate the cost of their trip online. The metasearch engine Kayak has offered travelers a new useful option – an online fuel calculator.
Apartment prices in Sweden continue to fall, while house prices continue to rise, writes The Local. According to monitoring company Maklarstatistik, which assesses the state of the real estate…
The population density in England, according to the latest data, was 395 people per square kilometer, making this region of the UK the most populous area in the European Union after Malta. This is…
Inflation in Latvia may fall to 3% in 2011, and the euro may be introduced in the country in 2012-2013. This was stated by the head of the Central Bank of Latvia, Ilmars Rimsevics.
The border camp «Friedland» in Lower Saxony (Germany) will become a museum in five years, which can be not only visited but also lived in for a few days together with its inhabitants. The fact is…
In the first half of 2008, 59,300 new citizens were born in the Czech Republic, which is 3,300 more than in the same period last year.
According to a report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in 2006 the United States was the most attractive country for migrants.
According to recently published data, in 2007 Germany had 246 thousand international students. Almost a third of them (32%) came from China, another 31% from Eastern European countries (mainly Poland…
Poland intends to switch to the euro by 2011. This was reported by AFP citing a statement by the country's Prime Minister Donald Tusk. According to the Prime Minister, achieving this goal will be…
Russia's state program to support resettlement was approved in 2006, but has not yet become particularly popular. According to Vladimir Pligin, Chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional…