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American B-52 bomber crashes in Guam
A B-52 bomber has crashed shortly after take-off at a US base in Guam, the US Air Force says. It says all seven crew members safely left the aircraft after the incident at 08:30 local time (22:30 GMT Wednesday) at Andersen Air Force Base. The US Air Force told the BBC it was treating the incident as a "mishap". The...
How Australia stood up to minister’s ‘illiterate migrants’ comments
When Australia's immigration minister spoke out about the level of literacy and numeracy among migrants late on Tuesday, he was addressing what has become one of the hot potatoes of this election season. With the build-up to the 2 July vote now in full swing, Peter Dutton responded to proposals by the opposition Labor party...
EgyptAir Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo ‘disappears from radar’
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar, the Egyptian airline says. It says there are 56 passengers, seven crew members and three security personnel on board Flight MS804. The Airbus A320 was flying at 37,000ft (11,300m) when it went missing over the eastern Mediterranean. An official said the plane...
Filmmaker Explores How to Love ‘Things Climate Can’t Change’ Rosanne Skirble
In his 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary "Gasland," filmmaker Josh Fox tackled the hotly debated method of extracting fossil fuel known as fracking, and he continued to explore the subject in "Gasland II" in 2013. He's back with the final film in his trilogy about climate change. VOA’s Rosanne...
Lazarev told why he lost Eurovision
The singer admitted that he had a premonition of the unexpected end of the competition Sergey Lazarev first spoke of frustration with European refereeing. 21 countries in the final of "Eurovision" has put the Russian artist zero points. Sergey Lazarev admits that he was surprised by this result. The singer admitted...
The star of the series ‘Birthday of Bourgeois’ was jailed
Artist was taken to court. Famous actor Valery Nikolaev was arrestede for disobeying to a police officer. Currently, administrative materials, and the actor himself was taken to court. According to media, Nikolaev repeatedly violated the traffic rules, and at the time of arrest of him smelled alcohol. At the same time, the...
Kim Kardashian on the red carpet
Cannes Film Festival this year, simply shines with all sorts of "rebellious" alongside celebrities who want to stand out from the crowd. In particular, on the evening before the cameras output was spotted Kim Kardashian in dress from the Lan...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s showed his daughter’s first steps
Zuckerberg is quite active on Facebook and keeps posting photos from his office, with his wife Priscilla Chan, daughter Maxima and the cotton ball pet, Beast, who also has a Facebook page with millions of followers. Take a look: A photo of Mark from his school days, a high school classic. A photo of Mark when he started his...
UN: Rights of Crimean Tatars Deteriorating Under Russian Rule
Human rights concerns are growing over the deteriorating situation of tens of thousands of Tatars since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, considered part of Ukraine, two years ago. “Since April 2014, Crimean Tatars have been subjected to arbitrary searches, seizure of books and arrests. Allegations of ill-treatment...
Young Minds Solve a City’s Old Problems
Every city has its problems, and hopefully is always looking for unique ways to solve them. One eastern U.S. city is hoping the creativity and outside the box thinking of young people can come to the rescue. An oyster habitat, abandoned houses converted to gardens, a cart that turns into a homeless shelter, a...
Segregation in US Schools Persists 62 Years After Court Ruling
The words are some of the most iconic to ever come out of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that in his 1954 opinion in the...
Anjelina Jolie began to go mad
Angelina Jolie has acted in a live BBC British Broadcasting Corporation, stating that she was disappointed with Donald Trump's statements on migration and Muslims. For several months in the United States was not cease talking about who will be the next president of the country. The most likely candidates for the...