Obama shuts down White House heckler: ‘You’re in my house!’ (video)
President Barack Obama is used to hecklers stopping him during speeches — but he draws the line when the audience interrupts him in his own house. As Obama was speaking at a White House event honoring LGBT Pride Month on Wednesday, an accented voice rang out from the crowd. Obama wasn't amused. "Shame on...
Feline power: Bear falls off porch attacked by house cat (VIDEO)
A resolute 2-year-old house cat called Nani managed to scare a black bear off her family porch, with the owner filming the stand-off. "The bear came up our front drive way and walked around the house to the back," Darlis Elliott, a resident of Eagle River, Alaska, told local broadcaster KTUU. "We were all kind of...
Netherlands proposes international tribunal regarding downed Malaysian MH17 flight
The Netherlands is discussing with its allies an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing a Malaysian airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine last year, sources familiar with the discussions say. Korupciya.world reports citing Сеnsor.NET The chance of a successful prosecution is considered...
Volunteer Ukrainian drone-builder behind bars for ‘evading’ military conscription (Video)
Dimitry Yavdoshenko, one of Ukraine’s brightest young volunteer engineers contributing to the government’s efforts to tackle Russia-backed militants in the Donbas by building drones, has been sentenced to two years in prison, ironically, for avoiding the military draft. Yavdoshenko has even invested his own...
‘The Hiroshima bomb detonated 3km from my house’: veterans around the globe tell their war stories (PHOTO)
Sasha Maslov has spent five years flying to more than 20 countries to track down veterans of the second world war, photograph them and listen to their life stories. Seventy years after Germany’s surrender on VE Day, it’s a remarkable and moving survey of survivors, from kamikaze pilots to teenage resistance...
Lexus has created a real, rideable hoverboard (video)
Back to the Future, eat your heart out. The year is 2015, and car company Lexus has created what it claims is the world's most advanced hoverboard. The day you have been dreaming of ever since Back to the Future II hit the big screen in 1989 has finally arrived. Engineers at Japanese car company Lexus have...
Accused Of Stealing Billions, Yanukovych Defends His Ostriches (video, mems)
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has granted his first extended interview to Western media since eastern Ukraine erupted in conflict after he fled into exile last year. But in the midst of his sit-down with BBC Newsnight, after accepting some responsibility for the Maidan deaths that led to his downfall in...
Armenian Activists Continue Protest After Police Crackdown (video)
YEREVAN, Armenia — Despite the violent police crackdown, Armenian activists who have been campaigning against rising electricity prices have turned out in even larger numbers for a fresh rally in central Yerevan. Korupciya.world reports citing RL Up to 7,000 protesters flooded Yerevan's central Freedom...
Pakistani Rangers Kill At Least 10 Militants Outside Karachi
Pakistani paramilitary forces June 23 gunned down at least 10 militants in two encounters in suburban areas of the sprawling southern city of Karachi, authorities said. Korupciya.world reports citing Radio Liberty The paramilitary rangers were acting on an intelligence tip that militants belonging to an unnamed, banned...
Russian mercenaries totally destroyed resort village of Shyrokyne (VIDEO)
After hostilities in the east of Ukraine were resumed last month, the village of Shyrokyne near Mariupol, the Donetsk region, was completely ruined. As reported by Censor.NET, Shyrokyne used to be a small resort village at the Azov sea coast. It was shelled from large-caliber weapons and mortars by the separatists many times....
Armenian Police Forcefully Disperse Yerevan Protesters, 18 Injured (Video, photo)
Armenian police used force and water cannons to clear a demonstration in central Yerevan overnight after a standoff with activists protesting against rising electricity prices. Korupciya.world reports citing Radio Liberty In the early hours of June 23, special police forces moved to disperse hundreds of...
Charleston shooting: Obama’s evolving language on race (photo)
Barack Obama has tended to be reticent about race, and left others to attach racial meaning to his presidency. Korupciya.world reports citing BBC His public comments on racist atrocities, like Charleston, and racial controversies, like Ferguson, have generally been measured and controlled, as if he is trying to...