a little round up of stories in the Europress this week.

international | miscellaneous | other press Thursday October 07, 2004 13:57 by -

(that aren't in the irish media)

the usual mixture of stuff that Europeans like to read about-
gore - murder - terror - horror etc.

Happy news-
the Austrian Elfriede Jelenik has won the Nobel prize for literature this morning for devoting her life to writing about nasty things and power relationships.

Happy news-
An Austrian bishop Kart Krenn, has handed in his notice to the RC church, and the Pope has accepted it, in an attempt to apologise for a sex abuse scandal that includes schools, orphanages, and a seminary where the young father dougal's were made suck up to the elders in immoral ways. - And we wonder why the world is so sick?

Horrible news-
Over the border in Berlin, Germany, a man has been found to have been keeping his boyfriend chopped up in little bits in the freezer awaiting the right moment to thaw him out and eat him. Police think it's a copycat crime, and are worried about the emergent popularity of canabalism.

Horrible news-
the other morning in a satelite town of Barcelona, two policewomen were tortured, sexually abused and murdered in their own home. One was to celebrate her 23rd birthday. Both had probably taken part in the brutal eviction of the D form festival in the same area last weekend. The press and police have released details of the presumed murderer, who probably doesn't stand a chance of a fair trial now. Apparently he is a known sex offender who was on temporary release.

Bad News-
American waste plutonium has arrived in France and is being transported by motorway to it's eventual destination and reprocessing. The french are very worried.

Old News-
Argentine investigations into the military dictatorship years have led to the detention of 11 military officers.

No News-
as Turkey gets an "amber light" to join the EU, most online continental newspapers have chosen to poll their readers on their approval of Turkish accession, at noon CET the majority have voted "no".
Spanish, austrian and Berlin newspapers have chosen the more reliable "do you think sex offence laws work" sort of question and the vast majority of people say "no".

Other interesting titbit-
the four most depressed states (with the highest incidences of depressive or anxiety related illnesses) of the EU are-
Finland, UK, Ireland and Spain.

cheer up!
:-)