Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,

Serbia is boiling with anti-government protests. The protests were initiated by Serbian university students, who are organized in an anarcho-syndicalist manner, where decisions are made at student plenums,

They packed up food, water and extra clothes and set off. Hundreds of Serbian university students on Thursday started an 80-kilometer, or 50 mile, march toward the northern city of Novi Sad.

The Prime Minister of Serbia Milos Vucevic resigned amid nationwide protests over a deadly train station collapse in Novi Sad.

A canopy collapse, which killed 15 people in the city of Novi Sad, has become a flashpoint reflecting wider discontent with the increasingly autocratic rule of populist President Aleksandar Vucic.

The government crisis in Serbia erupted after the resignation of Prime Minister Miloš Vučević under the pressure of anti-corruption protests

The peaceful region has a population of just 11,000, scattered across small villages clinging to the sides of the mountains