The Netherlands' home friendly against France was stopped after 14 minutes for a minute's applause to remember Dutch great Johan Cruyff. Former Ajax and Barcelona star Cruyff, who famously wore the number 14 shirt, died of cancer aged 68 on Thursday. A minute's silence for the former Dutch captain and coach was...
Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam refused to speak when asked about Tuesday's attacks in Brussels, Belgian prosecutors say. They said that Abdeslam, arrested last week in Brussels and initially cooperative, had "exercised his right to silence" and said nothing when interviewed after Tuesday's bombings. He...
Whoever you may be: a celebrity or a common man, the years take their toll. Wrong mode of the day, harmful food, birth, lack of sleep — all this is fraught with overweight. Vince Vaughn in 1996 and in 2015 Mariah Carey in 1997 and in 2012 Laurence Fishburne in 1999 and 2012 Alec Baldwin in 1994 and in...
Serbian TV host Soraja Vucelic, previously linked to footballer Neymar, wants to set up her own political party A former reality TV star and Playboy model has announced she wants to set up her own political party. Soraja Vucelic, 31, who hosts the Serbian version of Wheel of Fortune, says she wants to add some spice to the...
Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879 — 1953), taken from a police file. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin was not his name. Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1878, Ioseb Jughashvili was the son of a failing cobbler and a housemaid. His father Besarion was an alcoholic, and,...
A SHOCKED teaching assistant was sacked after the primary school she worked for discovered pictures of her modelling. Gemma Laird was fired after a week at Bloemfontein Primary School in Craghead, County Durham when snooping parents discovered photographs of her modelling underwear. The 21-year-old, who has a four-year-old...
The Rolling Stones have rocked Havana, playing to tens of thousands in the Cuban capital, where foreign rock music was banned for several decades. Many of those at the free concert were lifelong fans who for years had to keep quiet about their love of the Stones and other groups. Mick Jagger welcomed fans in Spanish before...
A high-ranking US Navy captain has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail for passing classified information to a Malaysian defence contractor. Daniel Dusek provided the information in exchange for luxury hotel stays and the services of prostitutes. Dusek was also ordered to pay a $70,000 (£50,000) fine and $30,000...
Alexandra is as two peas similar to her mother. The eldest daughter of the singer Slava shared with subscribers on the Instagram page photos with colorful holidays. 17-year-old Alexandra, who is like two peas in a pod similar to her mother, boasts a slim figure. Mother and daughter went on holiday on...
Madonna showed who really runs the streets of New York — as the millionaire pop icon threw a diva fit Thursday over a summons she got from the city for writing “No Parking” in concrete outside her Manhattan mansion. “Yes Bishes I am Madonna and that is my driveway and if people park in front of it i cant...
Matthew Youlden speaks nine languages fluently and understands more than a dozen more. He’s what is known as a polyglot, a member of the multilingual elite who speaks six or more languages fluently. He’s also a sociolinguist who studies the revitalization of minority languages. But to see him in action on a daily...
Russian singer Valeria radically changed her image and repainted a brunette. Valeria experimented considerably: on published in Instagram pictures from her short black hair, black eye, eyebrow tint. Most fans picture aroused confusion and backlash. "No, not so drastically change necessary," "A bit calmer,"...