Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has never been one to hold back what's on his mind, especially in recent months. Back in May 2010, Trump, then the host of The Celebrity Apprentice, opened up to Us Weekly with 25 fun facts about himself. He revealed some of his favorite foods, how he gets to work every day,...
Italy is the last country in Western Europe without protections for same-sex couples, but its Parliament takes up a bill next week that could change that. Next week, Italy’s Parliament is scheduled to take up a law that would allow same-sex couples to enter civil unions. Tony Gentile / Reuters Italy is the only country in...
An 18-year-old asylum seeker who raped a 72-year-old pensioner will not be deported from Austria to Afghanistan after serving his 20-month prison sentence. The Afghan asylum seeker, identified as Wahab M., was found guilty of raping an elderly woman by the Regional Court on Wednesday, Austrian press reported. He was sent to...
Soon Swedish teenagers may find sharing pictures on Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat awkward under parental supervision as Stockholm plans to introduce an age limit for social media use. The Swedish government said Friday it is going to launch a special commission on implementing the EU Data Protection Directive. At the meeting...
Two soldiers from an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) elite unit have been sentenced to several months in jail as well as demoted for shooting a camel in the West Bank and filming the attack. A video of the incident surfaced online earlier sparking outrage on social media. The footage shows one of the soldiers driving through the...
The first city to report mass sexual harassment was Cologne. According to eyewitnesses, “heavily intoxicated” men of “Arab or North African” origin were harassing and assaulting local women in the city center on New Year’s Eve. Similar cases have been reported in other German cities such as...
Eighty Swiss banks have agreed to pay the US fines totaling $1.36 billion in order to avoid court prosecution, according to the US Justice Department. After the investigation has been completed all the banks are required to cooperate in related criminal or civil proceedings, said the department. The US Justice Department began...
A young German man put a lot on the line for the thrill of a lifetime – scaling the Great Pyramid of Giza, and filming the whole spectacle. An avid climber, the 18-year-old has braved some unforgettable heights. But the Egyptian police just couldn’t let this one slide. Andrej Ciesielski broke a decades-old law by...
Angelina Jolie considered cutting a bathing sequence from By the Sea, because it was her first nude scene since her 2013 double mastectomy.'I realized it was going to be me in that bathtub,' the 40-year-old Oscar winner told the New York Times. 'But I told myself, "Put all of that aside." Like, you...
At least 231 people were evacuated from the dam of the hydroelectric power plant near the Russian city of Novosibirsk after reports of explosive devices planted there, a plant official said. An engineer on duty received a message from local emergency services about an explosive device possibly planted on the grounds of the...
Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar and his beloved wife Anis al-Doleh. A few days ago the news spread around the world: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has revived the tradition of his grandfather and father and started a personal harem "Garden of Delights". Harem for europeans seems sort of abode young and beautiful women from...
The FBI has released a video from the Tuesday traffic stop that led to the shooting death of one of the armed protesters who had been occupying the headquarters of a federal wildlife preserve in Oregon. The video is intended to counteract some of the contradictory accounts of what happened and give an unfiltered view of the...