Network Europe, Monday 1 June 2009:

• Keeping a grip: The ex-wrestler celebrating election success in South Ossetia.
• Courting controversy: Bulgarian fraudsters on trial and standing for parliament.
• Time flies for Big Ben - London's favourite clock celebrates its 150th birthday.
• Island isolation - the website inviting you to start a new life in the Pacific.
• The blonde bombshells bringing laughter to Latvia.

Main photo by Albertitoglez (Flickr)