The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees calculated that in 2006, the most frequent asylum seekers abroad were citizens of Iraq, China, and Russia. The most attractive countries for…
Plastic money will appear in Hong Kong. The first experimental batch of banknotes with a face value of 10 Hong Kong dollars (about $1.3) will appear in mid-2007 and will be used alongside paper…
The last divided capital of Europe – Nicosia – will soon cease to be so. The wall erected between the two parts of the city – Turkish and Greek – has been decided to be demolished.
Getting a UK passport may soon become more difficult. UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has proposed requiring immigrants applying for British citizenship to perform community work -…
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has published a report ranking the situation of children in 21 countries in Europe and North America. The experts considered only economically developed…
The Big Mac index, the latest edition of which was published days ago by The Economist, is calculated based on the price of the eponymous burger sold at McDonald's. This allows one to assess real…
Foreign citizens arriving in the United Kingdom may soon be asked to leave fingerprints. This is one of the proposals contained in the new 'Borders' bill, the draft of which is to be published…
The German federal foundation 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future' together with the Ukrainian national foundation 'Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation' is completing individual payments to…
Ukraine ranks fourth in the world in terms of the number of migrants entering the country. This is stated in a World Bank report 'Migration and Remittances in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet…
Libya made an offer to the European Union and the United States that is hard to refuse: exchange Bulgarian nurses, sentenced to death by a Libyan court in December 2006 for allegedly infecting 426…
The British government is developing a series of measures under which all foreigners living in the country will have their fingerprints taken, reports the British newspaper Guardian.
Representatives of Germany's Christian Democrats initiated last week a reform of the current rules for issuing visas by diplomatic missions of the Federal Republic abroad.