One of the biggest names in Australia’s National Rugby League is under investigation after he was filmed simulating sex with a dog while at a house party for Australia (aka Invasion) Day. Mitchell Pearce, co-captain of the Sydney Roosters — one of the highest-profile clubs in the country — appears intoxicated...
IRAQI forces have found more than 40 bodies, including those of women and children, in a mass grave in the city of Ramadi west of Baghdad, which they recently retook from Islamic State militants. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan said the grave in central Ramadi contained the bodies of civilians as well as...
A TEENAGER who was brutally sexually assaulted in Denmark will be prosecuted for using pepper spray to fight off her attacker. The 17-year-old told police that she was attacked near a migrant asylum centre in the coastal town of Sønderborg by an English-speaking man who knocked her to the ground, unbuttoned her pants and...
What's more lucrative than Johnny Depp or Yoko Ono? A photogenic potato, at least for renowned celebrity photographer Kevin Abosch. His "Potato #345" — a simple portrait of an organic Irish spud — reportedly sold for €1 million ($1.08 million) last year to a European businessman, who saw it while...
Remember the Skreemr, a concept for a supersonic plane that could travel at Mach 10? Scratch that, there's now a design for a plane that could cruise from London to New York in 11 minutes, traveling at Mach 24 — that's 12 times faster than the Concorde! Charles Bombardier, the industrial designer who came up with...
US scientists have urged the World Health Organisation to take urgent action over the Zika virus, which they say has "explosive pandemic potential". Writing in a US medical journal, they called on the WHO to heed lessons from the Ebola outbreak and convene an emergency committee of disease experts. They said a vaccine...
Pentagon looking at ‘military options’ to stop Islamic State from gaining more ground, four years after US air campaign helped topple Libyan dictator Gaddafi The Pentagon is considering fresh military action in Libya more than four years after conducting an air campaign that helped topple dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a...
The world champion acrobatic paraglider, Horacio Llorens, has made another dream of his come true after successfully “asking” the Aurora Borealis for a dance in Norway. The spectacular sight in a YouTube video by Red Bull shows the Spaniard gliding through the Northern Lights near Trømso, Norway. Llorens had...
A flash of fire and branches turned into a smoking wreck – a dramatic video has captured the moment a tree was struck by lightning at a school parking lot in Texas. The startling video was recorded by a security camera at Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic School in the city of Tyler on January 21, and later published by...
The authorities in Sweden are making plans to expel as many as 80,000 failed asylum-seekers, the interior minister was quoted as saying. Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years. "We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," Swedish...
President Obama’s final year in office marks the Guantanamo Bay detention facility’s 15th year in operation. RT interviewed David Remes, a lawyer who has advised over a dozen Gitmo inmates, about the rising stakes facing the remaining prisoners there. Remes, who left a lucrative position in corporate law in 2008 to...
Two people were reported injured and many vehicles were tossed about as a twister touched down in Coconut Creek, Florida. Heavy storms on Wednesday morning soaked the area, just a few miles inland from Florida's Atlantic coast, between Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. At Broward College, the twister picked up cars, tossing...