Barack Obama to meet Raul Castro on historic visit
President Barack Obama will make history on Sunday when he flies to Cuba to visit the island and hold talks with its communist leader. The two-day visit will be the first by a sitting US president since Calvin Coolidge went 88 years ago. Mr Obama will meet President Raul Castro — but not retired revolutionary leader Fidel...
The building that went for a walk
An historic structure in China is being moved 90m to allow development. Kelly Grovier asks whether we can ever truly preserve the past. Can you ever really box up the past and take it with you? Sure, you can pack into a suitcase your childhood teddy bear or the photos of you and your friends on your 16th birthday. But what...
Spain Erasmus student bus crash ‘kills 13’
At least 13 people have been killed after a bus carrying foreign students crashed on a Spanish motorway between the cities of Barcelona and Valencia. Most of the 57 people on board the bus were students on the Erasmus programme who were returning to Barcelona after a trip to a fireworks festival. Footage from the scene shows a...
Earth Hour 2016: Lights go out worldwide in demonstration against increasing climate change
Hundreds of landmarks in a record 178 countries went dark On the evening of 19 March the lights went out not just all over Europe, but throughout the world. But far from being a harbinger of doom – as in Sir Edward Grey’s celebrated observation on the eve of the First World War – it was a sign that one of the...
Hundreds of sex offenders are on the run in the UK
HUNDREDS of sex offenders who are meant to be tracked by the authorities are going missing. Almost four registered sex offenders disappear every week, it can be revealed after a successful legal fight to force the Home Office to release the information. It had refused to say how many people on the Sex Offenders register...
TERROR WARNING: British ISIS jihadis ‘recruiting’ suicide bombers for London attacks
THE Islamic State (ISIS) ‘Secret Service’ handpicked the Paris attackers and they have now set their sights on Britain. The tight-knit unit, who mask their identity from even fellow militants, includes senior British ISIS fighters who are keen to bring the war to Europe. Claude Moniquet, chief executive of the...
Serega showed his children and mulatto wife (PHOTO)
Former judge of the show "X Factor", the rapper Serega does not hide his family now. The musician has shared photos of his wife and grown sons. His wife is Pauline — she is the most mysterious beloved of rapper, about which media wrote more than once. She has a gorgeous figure and she is a dancer. The couple has...
Jihadis taught how to carry out ‘beheadings and mass killings INSIDE British prisons’
JIHADIS are being trained up inside some of the most secure British prisons in preparation to join barbaric Islamic State, it has been claimed. Extremists are carrying out mock beheadings and taught how to slit the throat of a bound captive, according to prison sources. The shocking revelations claim that would-be terrorists...
«I want to stay forever young»: who were killed in Rostov (PHOTO)
The network has information about the number of Ukrainians who died in the crash of a passenger plane in Rostov. There were 55 passengers and 7 crew members, all of them were killed. Elvira Belyakova believed that the best rest is a cruise. Unfortunately, this cruise was the last in her life. (Russia) The couple Irina...
Five killed in another suicide bombing in Istanbul
A SUICIDE attack on Istanbul’s main pedestrian shopping street has killed five people, including two dual nationality Israeli-Americans and one Iranian citizen. Several dozen others were wounded in the attack which is the sixth suicide bombing in Turkey in the past year. The bombing hit part of Istiklal Street, a long...
Teachers SLAM primary school tests as ‘damaging and a health threat to children’
TEACHERS are set to boycott primary school tests after condemning the “testing culture” as “damaging” and causing a threat to the health of children. Testing and labelling of children as "successful" or "failing" is leaving young pupils demotivated and difficult to educate, according...
European NUCLEAR WAR IMMINENT as Russia relations break down
A NUCLEAR war in Europe is highly likely to happen soon as relations with Russia become even more strained, a former Russian foreign minister has threatened. Igor Ivanov, foreign minister from 1998 to 2004 under Boris Yeltsin and current President Vladimir Putin, said the risk of a nuclear war in Europe is higher than at any...