Protests halt Dutch science park
13672
A Dutch developer's withdrawal from a science park project is blamed on animal rights protesters.
761760
LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Anti-government protests in  Bolivia on Tuesday paralyzed two cities and pushed authorities  to meet a key demand -- the cancellation of a water concession  run by a foreign company.
415946
Dutch side SC Heerenveen's UEFA Cup match with Maccabi Petach Tikva was canceled after a public workers' strike shut down Israel's international airport Tuesday.
634246
Thousands have taken to the streets of Amsterdam to demonstrate against plans to cut public spending - the largest protest there for over two decades.
335828
AMSTERDAM More than 150,000 people took to the streets over the weekend to protest planned cuts to social benefits in what police described as the largest antigovernment demonstrations in the Netherlands in 20 years.
660569
German animal rights activists have launched a campaign against plans to put up a giant ferris wheel in Berlin, saying it would disturb the sex lives of rhinos in a nearby zoo.
528034
Protesters seized oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp for a second day Monday, shutting down 90,000 barrels a day in oil production, company officials said.
111431
By Rene Villegas LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Anti-government protests inBolivia on Tuesday paralyzed two cities and pushed authoritiesto meet a key demand -- the cancellation of a water concessionrun by a foreign company.
753073
LAGOS, Nigeria  - Hundreds of protesters have besieged two oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. in Nigeria's southern oil region, shutting down production of 90,000 barrels of oil a day, company officials said Monday.
134346
Environmental protesters are arrested after storming the International Petroleum Exchange in an attempt to stop trading.
625103
German police battled thousands of anti-globalisation protesters with water cannons to stop them getting close to the annual summit of the world&#39;s rich nations.
235974
London's Science Museum canceled a Friday talk by Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson after the co-discoverer of DNA's structure told a newspaper that Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence
696504
Tens of thousands of Australians have rallied against controversial industrial relations laws, temporarily bringing parts of the country's major cities to a halt.
711053
Citing security concerns, organizers of the Rotterdam Film Festival called off Sunday's screening of a short film by murdered Dutch moviemaker Theo van Gogh that has outraged some Muslims.
232467
NEW YORK - More than 200,000 people expected to protest on the eve of the Republican National Convention will not be able to rally in Central Park.
143997
Public transport grinds to a halt in the Netherlands as workers strike against the government's planned welfare cuts.
46957
Next month's Royal Film Premiere has been cancelled amid protests over the chosen film, Brick Lane.