Playing with fire: Japanese game streamer burns down flat while toying with lighter (VIDEO)
A Japanese gamer set his house on fire after striking a removable lighter fuse went disastrously wrong. The real-time live-streamed inferno got over 3 million views on Youtube in 24 hours. The video, shot with a webcam, shows a man smoking a cigarette and playing with his lighter. He fills it with fuel and takes a removable...
Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, five wounded in landmine blast in Donbas
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another five were wounded in a landmine blast on Sunday evening while patrolling their sector in the Donbas conflict zone, representative of the Donbas Battalion Yevhen Shevchenko said on Monday, according to Ukrainian TV Channel 112. "The soldiers who came to their rescue also got...
100 years ago: amazing Ukrainian embroidered suits, luxurious necklaces and wreaths (PHOTOS)
“Only Little Russians and Parisian women know how to dress tastefully! You will not believe how charmingly the girls dress, the young men as well. It is a really national, comfortable and graceful costume, despite the huge boots. And the ducats, the beads!!! Headbands, flowers!! And the faces!!! Oh, what...
25+ Funny Photos Showing How Cropping Totally Changes The Story
Everyone wants to believe their own eyes, but what you don't see can often make all the difference. Photoshopping an image might be the most common way to change a picture's narrative, but simple cropping is a low-tech alternative that can be just as effective. This technique works because our minds always strive to...
If Game of Thrones was filmed in Russia (photos)
As the latest series of Game of Thrones draws to a climax, Danaerys is surrounded at the fighting pits by a militant group called the Sons of the Harpy. Sensing its mother's need, Dany's previously missing dragon, Drogon, appears and burns the threat to a crisp. Daenerys then climbs on his back, and the two fly...
Woman Tattoos Her Own Face To Cover Scars, Starts Business To Help Other Burn Victims
This woman rose above the challenges of her own experience to help others in similar situations. Basma Hameed, originally from Iraq, was severely burned by hot oil in a kitchen accident when she was 2 years old, CBC News reported. Although she underwent more than 100 procedures in an attempt to conceal her third-degree burns,...
Two thirds of EU states reject GMO crops, file cultivation opt-out requests
Two thirds of EU states have requested to be allowed to ban the growing of genetically modified crops in their countries, choosing the “opt-out” clause of a European Commission rule that allows members to override EU-wide GMO approvals. Nineteen European Union member states have requested opt-outs from the...
16 dead, 3 missing after flash floods ravage southeast France (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
Flash flooding triggered by torrential rain has left sixteen people dead and three missing in southeastern France, according to president Francois Hollande, who visited the disaster-struck areas. "It's not over," Hollande said, as cited by AP. Local officials and emergency services had earlier given conflicting...
Reuters: Egypt says Russia’s intervention in Syria will counter terrorism
Russia's intervention in Syria will curtail the spread of terrorism and help deal a fatal blow to Islamic State in the war-torn country, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday, according to Reuters. Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades,...
Donbas militants observing full ceasefire on Sunday
The enemy was observing a full ceasefire and did not open fire on Ukrainian positions in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone in Ukraine's east on Sunday, October 4, according to the ATO press center. The truce has allowed Ukraine to start scheduled withdrawals of military hardware and weapons whose caliber is under...
The world’s youngest mothers in medical history
A Mexican girl has become one of the world’s youngest mothers after giving birth aged just NINE . The youngster, named only as Dafne, gave birth to a 6lb baby girl on January 27 at the Zoquipan Hospital, in Mexico's western Jalisco state. But the young girl is in fact four years older than the youngest mother in...
The Green Witch of Envy Between Women (ФОТО)
There is a vicious, green witch in the female psyche that persistently incites us to compare ourselves to other women. It demands that we measure our weight, our breast size, our complexion, our careers, our talents, our qualities, our sexiness, our intellects, our wardrobes, our popularity and our whole lives with...