Фанаты не узнали постройневшую Екатерину Стриженову
Екатерина Стриженова, вернувшаяся из отпуска в Италии, похоже, очень соскучилась по родным краям. Телеведущая уже вторые выходные подряд проводит за «тихой охотой», радуясь...
Islamic State group: Turkey and US ‘ready to invade capital’
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested he and the US are ready to drive so-called Islamic State (IS) from its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. Mr Erdogan said US counterpart Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action against the militants when they met at the G20 summit in China. He said Turkey would have...
Biryani beef ban: Indian police check Mewat rice dishes
Police in the north-western Indian state of Hariyana will check dishes of mutton biryani to ensure they do not contain beef, a senior official has told the BBC. A vet will help officers inspect the mixed rice dish in Mewat district, Hariyana Cow Service Commission Chairman Bhani Ram Mangla said. India's Hindu majority see...
Woman who was sexually abused as a child becomes police officer and captures attacker
A woman who was sexually abused from the age of eight has seen her attacker put behind bars 15 years later, after she became a police officer and secretly taped his confession. Erlis Joseph Chaisson, 47, was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child by contact in Texas in August....
Man arrested after five-day-old baby ‘punched in supermarket’
A man is under arrest after allegedly punching a baby in a supermarket, police said. Elsie Rose, just five days old, was on her first outing with her parents, Amy Duckers and Lewis Temple, and her sister, Libby, seven, when she was hit at the Tesco store in Baguley, Greater Manchester, on Monday. The baby, weighing 6lb 12oz,...
С Александром Домогаровым расправилась бывшая любовница
Александр Домогаров на собственном опыте убедился, каково это, когда вам в лицо плеснули серной кислотой. К счастью, это произошло не в реальной жизни, а на съемках сериала...
UK immigration minister confirms work to start on £1.9m Calais wall
Work is about to begin on “a big, new wall” in Calais as the latest attempt to prevent refugees and migrants jumping aboard lorries heading for the Channel port, the UK’s immigration minister has confirmed. Robert Goodwill told MPs on Tuesday that the four-metre high wall was part of a £17m package of...
AirAsia pilot flies to Melbourne instead of Malaysia after navigation error
An AirAsia flight from Sydney to Malaysia ended up in Melbourne instead when the pilot entered the wrong coordinates into the internal navigation system, an air safety investigation has found. The Airbus A330 was scheduled to leave Sydney international airport at 11.55am on 10 March 2015, and arrive in Kuala Lumpur just under...
Can ‘Sex Robots’ Replace Relationships With Human Beings?
Humans should be "very careful" about developing intimate relationships with robots, experts have warned. The Human Choice and Computers Conference, held on Wednesday, will study the question of technology and intimacy and examine whether humans could ever fall in love with a robot. Dr Kathleen Richardson, a senior...
World’s First Face Transplant Patient Isabelle Dinoire Dies
The world's first face transplant recipient has died, 11 years after the pioneering surgery. Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire had reportedly suffered from two types of cancer following years of taking anti-rejection medication. Doctors at Amiens University Hospital have only just confirmed that she died in April following a...
Children Among Victims Of Suspected Chlorine Gas Attack In Aleppo
Activists claim government warplanes have dropped bombs laced with chlorine gas on a rebel-held area in the Syrian city of Aleppo. A volunteer rescue group called Syrian Civil Defence said they fell in the al-Sukkari neighbourhood and at least 80 people were sent to hospitals suffering from asphyxia. There were no...
Chicago hits 500 homicides for 2016 after deadly Labor Day weekend
CHICAGO — With a holiday weekend spate of violence that killed 13 people, the homicide toll in the nation’s third-largest city hit 500, a grim milestone that puts the city on track to reach a murder rate it hasn't seen since the drug wars of the1990s. The Labor Day weekend murders come after police...