PRESIDENT Barack Obama is set to put more American boots on the ground in Syria in a bid to wipe out Islamic State. He is set to announce the decision to send 250 more troops into the war torn country to support local forces, a state official has revealed. The decision comes amid growing hopes that the so-called caliphate, also...
AN ENGLISH city council REFUSED to host St George’s Day celebrations because the area is “too multicultural”. Bristol City Council allowed the national day to pass without a single event for the patron saint, despite its history dating back to 1222. Council chiefs said 91 different languages are spoken in the...
A BBC documentary will air “shocking new allegations” about the downing of Malaysia Airlines plane MH17, including claims it was shot down by a fighter jet and not a ground-to-air missile. The Boeing 777 exploded over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing 298 people. The official report concluded that the jet,...
A panel of international experts investigating the disappearance of 43 Mexican trainee teachers in 2014 says the government of President Enrique Pena Neto has hampered its inquiries. In its scathing final report, the experts also dismissed the conclusions of the official inquiry. They said officials failed to pursue the...
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has urged citizens to defend the state and its institutions ahead of planned anti-government protests. In a televised speech, Mr Sisi said attempts to destabilize Egypt would not succeed if the country stood united. Security has been stepped up across the country, with officials...
US President Barack Obama has dismissed North Korea's proposal to suspend nuclear tests if the US ends its annual military exercises with the South. On Sunday Mr Obama told reporters that the US did not take such a proposal seriously and that Pyongyang would "have to do better than that". The North's foreign...
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been plagued with several split rumors even before their marriage. However, up until now, the bankable couple has been keeping mum about the real status of their relationship. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston almost had a baby Now, new reports claimed that Angelina and Brad are on the verge of...
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Usha Pandey was dancing when the earthquake hit. She was at home with her younger sister and brother on a school holiday, listening to music and having fun. "As soon as the house started shaking, we ran outside," Pandey, 19, said. "The house collapsed right afterward. We're lucky to...
BEYONCÉ has finally dropped her new album LEMONADE and fans of the singer could hardly contain their excitement. The unannounced album launch came after her mysterious TV special on HBO, which turned out to be a visual teaser for the album along with music videos and new music. #LEMONADE the Visual Album....
The Kurdish rebel PKK movement has told the BBC that it is ready to intensify its fight against Turkey because Ankara is trying to make it surrender. Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Cemil Bayik said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was "escalating this war". "The Kurds will defend themselves to the...
Before the late 1980s, only a handful of contemporary British artists had made it into the mainstream. That all changed in 1988 when 16 students from London’s Goldsmiths College, led by Damien Hirst, staged their exhibition Freeze – the show that became the nucleus of the BritArt movement. Freeze is now legendary...
Lost in the most consistently astonishing US presidential campaign since the 1864 Democrats ran on a platform of conceding the Civil War, is a disturbing question that seems to bring into doubt the very premise of the American experiment. Exactly how would Donald Trump deport 11 million undocumented migrants from the US? Who...