Woman’s body found in elevator a month after power cut off
A 43-year-old woman was found dead in an elevator in China after possibly being trapped for a month. A maintenance crew was called to inspect a malfunctioning elevator in a residential building in the Gaoling district of Xi'an on January 30, according to a local government statement. The elevator had stopped between the...
US drone ‘kills 150 Somali militants’
A US drone strike has killed more than 150 al-Shabab militants in Somalia, the Pentagon says. Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the strike hit a training camp where a "large-scale" attack was being planned. "We know they were going to be departing the camp and they posed an imminent threat to US and...
Police gun down knife-wielding maniac who killed man, slashed woman, set homeless person on fire in Queens
A deranged slasher terrorized a Queens neighborhood for more than six hours Sunday, killing a liquor store owner, burning a homeless man’s skin off his body, knifing a mother of four and tossing a caustic liquid at two cops before officers’ bullets ended his madness. Stunned residents watched as hundreds of cops...
US election 2016: Sanders beats Clinton in Maine caucuses
Bernie Sanders has beaten Hillary Clinton in the Maine caucuses, the latest contest in the battle to be the Democratic presidential candidate. With 91% of the vote counted, Vermont Senator Mr Sanders is polling 64%, while former Secretary of State Mrs Clinton has 36%. In the Republican race, Marco Rubio easily won Puerto...
Nancy Reagan, former first lady and actress, dead at 94
Former first lady Nancy Reagan, who joined her husband on a storybook journey from Hollywood to the White House, died Sunday. She was 94. Reagan died at her home in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure, according to her spokeswoman, Joanne Drake of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. "Mrs. Reagan will be buried at...
At least 8 dead in Pakistan suicide attack
At least eight people, including two police officers and two children, were killed in a suicide attack Monday in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, district police officer Sohail Khalid told CNN. Another 21 were injured in the incident, which took place in the Charsadda District. A spokesman for the...
Natasha Koroleva in revealing outfits fun with unrecognizable Mickey Rourke (photo)
Rourke has changed beyond recognition after another plastic Singer Natasha Koroleva in the company of the actor Mickey Rourke had fun in Los Angeles. On the page in Instagram Queen shared a photo from a party in Beverly Hills. The picture shows the singer in a black mini posing in the arms of 63-year-old Rourke. "Watch for...
Iranian billionaire sentenced to death
Tehran (CNN)Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, authorities said Sunday. Zanjani and two others were convicted of embezzling billions of dollars from the national oil company, judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Ejei said. One of the charges he faces is "corruption on earth,"...
What happened with characters of the cult children’s film «Guest from the Future»
There are photos of actors in our review, which the whole country knew at that time....
Three men shot during Sydney factory siege
A gunman is believed to be in a stand-off with police at a Sydney factory where a man was shot dead and two others injured. Police say the "delicate" operation in the industrial suburb of Ingleburn in the city's southwest is ongoing. It is unknown whether the gunman is holding hostages. The two injured men were...
North Korea threatens US and S Korea with nuclear strikes
North Korea has warned of "indiscriminate" nuclear strikes on the US and South Korea as they begin their largest ever military drills. The exercises, involving more than 300,000 personnel, are an annual event and always generate tension. The order for a "pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice" was made in a...
Two California deputies charged after prison ‘fight club’ uncovered
INMATES who were forced to brawl inside California prisons say the consequences for refusal involved being beaten, handcuffed, tasered and sprayed with mace. Ricardo Palikako Garcia says a pair of sheriff’s deputies overseeing inmates in a San Francisco prison were dealing out justice without having to lay a finger on...