Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Traveller encampment A study into how the “sustainable” lifestyle of Romani Gypsy communities can help combat the environmental ...

For many, Halloween is a cheerful celebration, a time to stir imaginations with creative costumes and play with new identities; for me, leading an initiative at Columbia University about the Roma—a ...

They came to Europe from India in the Middle Ages. Their Romany language is flecked with words close to Hindi and is spoken in various dialects from Transylvania to San Francisco. To the outside world ...

Legend has it that European Gypsies came from Egypt but a new genetic study has shown they came from a small population that emerged from ancestors in India around 1000 years ago. The research, by ...

THE bizarre case of the extended family of Roma gypsies who set up camp on a roundabout in the middle of the M50 beltway around Dublin for a month or two had an even more bizarre ending. As you may ...

On Friday last week, around 300 Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers and supporters marched through the streets of Manchester to protest an outrageous act of discrimination and attack on democratic ...