French religious leaders ask Hollande for increased security
French religious leaders ask Hollande for increased security Military presence to hit 10,000, with 4,000 soldiers in Paris French religious leaders met on Wednesday with President Hollande to ask for increased security in places of worship, following the attack in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray on Tuesday in which two armed teens...
Мужчины, если вы увидели девушку, у которой есть такая ложбинка на животе, сразу раздевайте ее!
И вот почему… Исследователи из Гарварда пришли к сенсационному выводу – оказывает, мужчина считают девушек с такой ложбинкой самыми привлекательными. И кроме...
ISIS targeting Brits on holiday as armed police to be deployed to protect tourists
ISIS targeting Brits on holiday as armed police to be deployed to protect tourists ARMED cops will be deployed to beaches this summer to defend tourists from the looming threat of jihadis. French cops will be patrolling beaches and other holiday destinations such as festivals, train stations and airports. New rules banning...
France church attack: Authorities close to identifying second attacker
French investigators believe they are close to identifying the second man who killed a priest in his own church on Tuesday, French media report. They believe he could be the same person as a man they have been hunting since last week after a tip-off. One of the two church attackers has already been named by police as...
France church attack: Second suspect ‘known to police’
France church attack: Second suspect 'known to police' Abdel-Malik Petitjean, who took hostages and killed a priest in Normandy, had "Islamist militant" links, source says. Police have identified the second assailant who attacked a church in northern France this week as a 19-year-old known to security services...
Ragnar Kjartansson: Inside his first retrospective exhibition at the Barbican
Ragnar Kjartansson: Inside his first retrospective exhibition at the Barbican For a country with a population of only 330,000 people, Iceland has drawn a lot of attention recently. It has always had a strong contemporary musical tradition: Björk and, more recently, Sigur Rós, who played at this year’s...
Pokemon Go tips: How the first man to catch all 142 Pokemon actually caught them all
Pokemon Go tips: How the first man to catch all 142 Pokemon actually caught them all If you want to be a Pokémon Go master, you have to learn from a Pokémon Go master. Earlier on Thursday, Brooklyn-based Nick Johnson became the first Pokémon Go player to publicly confirm that he had caught all 142...
Russia athletes avoid blanket Rio 2016 IOC ban over state-sponsored doping
Russia athletes avoid blanket Rio 2016 IOC ban over state-sponsored doping Russian athletes have avoided a blanket ban from the Rio Olympics after the International Olympic Committee elected to allow individual sport federations to determine their role in state-sponsored doping. The 387 members of the Russia team faced...
‘America is already great’: Barack Obama urges US to back Clinton in last big speech
Departing president passes the baton to Hillary Clinton in emotional Democratic convention speech that cast Donald Trump as a threat to American values. Barack Obama led an emotional assault on Donald Trump’s patriotism in his last big speech to adoring Democrats on Thursday, casting the Republican as a threat not just to...
Chief David Bald Eagle, prominent Native American leader and actor, dies aged 97
David Beautiful Bald Eagle Jr, the prominent Native American chief and actor who appeared in movies including the Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves, has died at his home on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was 97. A paratrooper, dancer, Wild West show performer and musician, who acted in more than 40...
North Korean ‘seeks asylum at S Korean consulate in Hong Kong’
A North Korean defector is reported to have sought asylum at the South Korean consulate in Hong Kong. Full details are unclear, but the South China Morning Post reported that he is believed to have come to Hong Kong to take part in an academic competition two weeks ago. Police patrols around the area have been boosted and...
Beatrix Potter’s hidden adult themes
Born 150 years ago on 28 July, the British children’s book author was far more subversive than you may have realised, writes Christian Blauvelt. “Your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs McGregor.” Old Mrs Rabbit’s frightful warning to her children Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and...