Ikea became the latest outlet to be embroiled in the Europe-wide horsemeat scandal on Monday after traces of the animal were found in a batch of its Swedish meatballs. The furniture retailer has taken the affected batch off the shelves in 13 countries across Europe, including the UK, Sweden and France.
Vaclav Havel, Czech dissident, playwright, politician dead at 75
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 75, Czech Television announced Sunday. Havel, a puckish, absurdist playwright turned political activist, spent four and a half years in prison for opposing Czechslovakia’s Communist government before emerging as a leader of the […]