BRAD PITT AND ANGELINA JOLIE TO DIVORCE AFTER ALLEGED MARION COTILLARD AFFAIR, LIZZY CAPLAN KISS?
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are facing rumors of a possible divorce after an alleged affair with Marion Cotillard and an o-nset kiss with Lizzy Caplan. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly been seen together recently, according to a report by the International Business Times on May 12, but according to other reports,...
Remember Alexa Vega, the little girl from Spy Kids? Well she’s all grown up now and looks a little like this
If you were one of those youngsters who grew up watching the Spy Kids series, then you will of course remember Alexa Vega as gutsy pre-teen crimefighter Carmen. The original 2001 movie – about two siblings who learn the truth about their parents’ spying past after they are kidnapped – was a smash hit, spawning...
Obama plans ‘MILITARY RESPONSE’ after China intercepts US aircraft over South China Sea
Two Chinese fighters have carried out an "unsafe" intercept of a US military aircraft over the South China Sea, the Pentagon says. The incident happened in international airspace on 17 May as the US maritime reconnaissance aircraft carried out a routine patrol in the area, it added. Tensions in the region have...
Jamala showed her boyfriend (+ PHOTOS)
Ukrainian singer Jamala finally revealed the secret of her boyfriend, with whom she has a long romantic relationship. Mass media wrote that in 2011, she met with a foreigner. But under the photo had a very two-valued inscription: "How do you like my guy from London?" But in 2012, in one of the...
India’s BJP leads in Assam elections
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP party is leading in elections in the north-eastern state of Assam for the first time, early trends suggest. The BJP is ahead in 50 of the 126 seats, while the Congress is leading in 26 seats, the Election Commission said. Assembly elections were held in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West...
American B-52 bomber crashes in Guam
A B-52 bomber has crashed shortly after take-off at a US base in Guam, the US Air Force says. It says all seven crew members safely left the aircraft after the incident at 08:30 local time (22:30 GMT Wednesday) at Andersen Air Force Base. The US Air Force told the BBC it was treating the incident as a "mishap". The...
How Australia stood up to minister’s ‘illiterate migrants’ comments
When Australia's immigration minister spoke out about the level of literacy and numeracy among migrants late on Tuesday, he was addressing what has become one of the hot potatoes of this election season. With the build-up to the 2 July vote now in full swing, Peter Dutton responded to proposals by the opposition Labor party...
The eerie grave of 200,000 monks
Adam H Graham takes a spiritual retreat to one of Koya-san’s 54 shukubo: inns where guests are encouraged to meditate, commune and eat vegetarian cuisine with the monks or nuns. It was dusk when we entered the cemetery. A stone path, faintly lit with lanterns, snaked under the towering hemlock and umbrella pine trees. We...
Is it wrong to use a dead man’s sperm?
What drives the partners of men who have died to try and have their babies? Jenny Morber delves into the legally and ethically fraught world of post-mortem sperm donation. There is a man waiting for the doctor and his time is running out. It is late evening, just over an hour after the doctor first groped for his ringing phone....
EgyptAir Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo ‘disappears from radar’
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar, the Egyptian airline says. It says there are 56 passengers, seven crew members and three security personnel on board Flight MS804. The Airbus A320 was flying at 37,000ft (11,300m) when it went missing over the eastern Mediterranean. An official said the plane...
Filmmaker Explores How to Love ‘Things Climate Can’t Change’ Rosanne Skirble
In his 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary "Gasland," filmmaker Josh Fox tackled the hotly debated method of extracting fossil fuel known as fracking, and he continued to explore the subject in "Gasland II" in 2013. He's back with the final film in his trilogy about climate change. VOA’s Rosanne...
Lazarev told why he lost Eurovision
The singer admitted that he had a premonition of the unexpected end of the competition Sergey Lazarev first spoke of frustration with European refereeing. 21 countries in the final of "Eurovision" has put the Russian artist zero points. Sergey Lazarev admits that he was surprised by this result. The singer admitted...