Turkey coup attempt: Erdogan signals death penalty return
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is ready to reinstate the death penalty "if the people demand it", following the recent coup attempt. He was addressing supporters outside his Istanbul residence who were chanting for capital punishment to be restored. EU officials have warned that Turkey's bid to...
Germany ax attack injures several on train, police kill suspect
An ax-wielding man who attacked several people on a train in southern Germany late Monday evening has been shot dead by police, regional police spokesman Lt. Fabian Hench said. The assailant, armed with a knife and an ax, was identified as a 17-year-old Afghan man living in Ochsenfurt, Bavaria, Bavarian Interior Minister...
Melania Trump’s Republican Convention Speech Had Similar Lines to 2008 Michelle Obama Address
Melania Trump delivered the most anticipated speech on the first night of the Republican National Convention, but portions of her remarks bear striking similarities to Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention eight years ago. In a portion of the speech where Trump discussed her upbringing, she said...
Russian doping: Olympic chiefs to decide on sanctions after McLaren report
Russia should be banned from this summer's Olympics and Paralympics after evidence was found of a four-year, state-sponsored doping programme, says the World Anti-Doping Agency. A Wada-commissioned report found urine samples of Russian competitors were manipulated across the "vast majority" of summer and winter...
UK will not abandon EU friends, says Boris Johnson
The UK's exit from the EU does not mean it will be leaving Europe or "abandoning" its friends, the new foreign secretary has said in Brussels. Making his debut on the international stage, Boris Johnson said the EU needed a "co-ordinated response" to terrorism in the light of the recent Nice attack. He...
Microsoft to miss ‘one billion’ Windows 10 target
Microsoft has said it will miss its target of getting its Windows 10 operating system running on more than one billion devices by 2018. In a statement, it said problems with its smartphone business would delay it hitting the milestone. The software giant has struggled to find customers for Windows phones in a market dominated...
Kazakhstan: Three police and civilian killed in Almaty gun attack
Gunmen have killed three policemen and a member of the public in Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty, officials say. One attacker, 27, has been captured but an accomplice is still at large, the interior ministry said in a statement. The government has raised the terror threat level but not said who was behind the...
Прощай, Курбан! У Ксюши Бородиной новая любовь
Накануне Ксения Бородина похвасталась тем, что в паре с Ольгой Бузовой стала ведущей нового шоу и прекрасным букетом цветов. Похоже, что Ольге Бузовой и Ксении Бородиной одного...
Врачи рассказали об умирающей Джоли
Пока одни зарубежные и отечественные СМИ пестрят заголовками о госпитализации Анджелины Джоли из-за ее чрезмерной худобы (якобы ее вес составляет всего 35 килограммов), другие...
Google CEO hits out at Brexit and insists: We WON’T pay any more tax
THE boss of internet giant Google has defended his firm’s record of tax avoidance — in an interview in which he also implied the company will not respond positively to Brexit. CEO Sundar Pichai says the search engine group has has paid enough tax across Europe, despite widespread criticism. He said: “As a...
В Сеть попали откровенные фото 15-летний дочери Дмитрия Маликова без одежды
Стефания Маликова, дочь знаменитого российского артиста Дмитрия Маликова, опубликовала в Сети снимок, на котором она позирует в бикини в необычной позе. В фотоблоге Стефании...
India outrage after gang rape victim assaulted again ‘by same men’
There has been outrage in India after a student was allegedly gang-raped by five men who had also raped her three years ago. Police are yet to make any arrests although the 21-year-old was attacked last week in Rohtak town in the northern state of Haryana. She had been pursuing a case in court against the five men, when...