CNN: Russia conducts first airstrike in Syria (Video)
Russia has conducted its first airstrike in Syria, near the city of Homs, a senior U.S. official told CNN on Wednesday. The Russians told the United States that they should not fly U.S. warplanes in Syria, but gave no geographical information about where they planned to strike, CNN reports. The senior official said U.S....
Ocean sanctuary size of France announced by New Zealand in landmark deal
New Zealand will build an ocean sanctuary the size of France – one of the largest on Earth, in order to preserve marine life in a vast stretch of the South Pacific making up 15 percent of the country’s exclusive economic zone. The zone, announced by Prime Minister John Key, will be twice the size of the...
Luxury ice cubes? Greens slam ‘insane’ plan to carve Norway glacier
A controversial plan to harvest ice cubes from a melting Norwegian glacier and sell them in luxury bars across the globe has drawn criticism from the head of WWF Norge, who said that such an idea proves the world has gone completely insane. “To me, this is an example of the world’s complete...
Starch-loaded truck ploughs through playground, crashes into building, covers area in white dust
A video of a truck crashing into a residential building at full speed creating a large white cloud in Russia's southern city of Saratov is going viral. The video was shot by dashcam from a vehicle driving by. A large truck going at full speed, veers off the main road and crashing into a residential building. Eyewitnesses...
Narrow escape: Boy steps aside seconds before car slams into same place (VIDEO)
Miracles really do happen, this incident proves. Check out how a little boy in the Crimean capital of Simferopol managed to escape death by merely making a small step, seconds before a car went crashing into the area he had just departed. The BMW was driving at an incredible speed when the driver lost control of the vehicle,...
U.S. to allocate $20 mln for Ukraine Army training, nonlethal aid
U.S. President Barack Obama delegated to the Secretary of State the authority to provide aid for Ukraine totaling $20 million in defense articles, military education and training, according to the Memorandum published on the White House’s website. “I hearby delegate <…> the authority to direct the...
Four militant attacks on Ukrainian troops overnight
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine four times overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. "From 18:00 to midnight on September 30, the situation remained calm along the demarcation line, but in the evening the...
Pentagon opens lines of communication with Russia on Syria Read
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has directed his staff to "open lines of communication with Russia on de-confliction," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said, DPA reported. Carter's order made it clear that the two nations have common ground when it comes to fighting Islamic State, and the goal should be to take...
BREAKING: Russia approves use of military force in Syria
Vladimir Putin request to Russian parliament required under country's law immediately approved, paving the way for open Russian intervention in Syria, according to The Telegraph. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad asked Russia's Vladimir Putin for military aid, the Kremlin's chief of staff Sergei Ivanov said on...
Poroshenko about Putin’s statement: «Cool story, but hard to believe!
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he can hardly believe in the sincerity of statements made by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the UN General Assembly regarding the establishment of an anti-terrorist coalition. "In the past few days, we've heard conciliatory statements from the Russian side in which,...
Controversial Self Portraits By Finnish Photographer Iiu Susiraja
Some of us use selfies as a vain form of self-expression, trying to make ourselves look richer, happier or more beautiful than we really are. Finnish photographer Iiu Susiraja, however, turns this concept of the selfie on its head by taking brutally honest, surreal and unflinchingly funny self-portraits using her own body and...
10 Most Romantic Places in Ukraine! (photos)
While the whole world is going crazy with the heart-shaped pillows, teddy bears and red roses, we are still trying to catch a glimpse of warm weather amid the insane -20C. Some might argue that the freezing cold can actually lead to cozy romantic dinners, inviting fireplaces, fun snow fights for couples only, and other winter...