Sarajevo to Name Street After Sontag
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Sarajevo authorities will name a street after Susan Sontag, who helped the city's residents during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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BOSANSKI SAMAC, Bosnia  - A Bosnian Serb who was  convicted of war crimes and who preached reconciliation between  Serbs, Croats and Muslims after leaving jail is running for  mayor of his war-scarred town in this weekend's election.
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An empty lawn in the heart of what was once the Warsaw Ghetto will soon become a place not only of mourning, but of celebrating the Jewish life that flourished in Poland before it was destroyed in the Holocaust.
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The Dutch town of Breda has decided  to rename a new street that was to have been called St.  Fiacrius court after people started calling it Viagra court.
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A CITY will hold its traditional Chinese New Ye
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A decision to rename a one-mile stretch of road is at the heart of a fierce dispute that, some say, is fracturing the spirit of one of the largest Vietnamese enclaves in the nation.
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The venue where Bing Crosby first took to the stage is to be renamed in his honour.
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The Sarajevo film festival that once represented an unusual act of defiance to war has proven its worth as the most important showcase for films in south east Europe this week as it drew thousands of people to its screenings.
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A campaign to name a Brooklyn street after controversial black civil rights leader Sonny Carson has bitterly divided New York City officials, with some hurling accusations of racism and intolerance.
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PARIS -- With name after name engraved on pale stone walls, a new monument in the city's Jewish quarter pays tribute to the 76,000 Jews rounded up in France during the Holocaust and sent to Nazi death camps.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The opening night of an opera about the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia will be dedicated to the hundreds of people who died after terrorists seized a Russian school last week, an official said yesterday.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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Susan Sontag, a leading intellectual and activist of the past half century who introduced the concept of &quot;camp&quot; to mainstream culture and also influenced the way many thought about art, illness and photography, died Tuesday.
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The writer died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Tuesday morning. Calling herself an &quot;obsessed moralist&quot;, Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
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The company will abandon the Matsushita name and just go with its street name.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, whose father was detained at Flossenbuerg from December 1944 to April 1945, took part in the memorial service. via Ynetnews
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Services to remember the dead of two world wars and other conflicts are held across Northern Ireland.