Sometimes touted as the origin of the phrase "son of a gun," the apocryphal tale of "the bullet through the balls" is a well-traveled legend, often reported by such infamous urban legend vectors as "Dear Abby," as in this example from her 6 November 1982 column: It seems that during the Civil...
The extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) threw two Syrian men off the top of a building in Palmyra city in the central Syrian province of Homs, after accusing them of being a gay couple, local sources reported on Wednesday. A masked ISIS militant carried out the death sentence against the supposedly “gay...
People who fled the violence in Syria have made shocking claims, adding that children aged between one and nine are sold for $165 (£109). Sex slavery and human trafficking has been a typical method of raising revenue for ISIS. "They cut off heads and kidnapped girls and women and took them to Raqqa. What were the...
Arab Spring badly damage the tourist industry in Egypt. Until 2011, tourists visited the country of sands and pyramids annually by 15 million people. The revolution has helped to reduce the flow of tourists by almost a third. Now began to visit Egypt each year only 11 million people and the number is rapidly...
RAF Tornado jets have carried out their first airstrikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, the British Ministry of Defence has confirmed, according to the BBC. Four Tornados took off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus shortly after British MPs voted to approve bombing, the BBC wrote. The strikes focused on six targets in an...
Police are attending a shooting at a social services facility for disabled people in California, according to BBC News. Fire officials in San Bernardino said it was responding to a "20 victim shooting incident" and it was working to clear the scene, BBC News reports. ABC News reports that there are 12 people dead but...
A group of 20 terrorists approached a Ukrainian fortified position near the town of Avdiyivka in Donbas and started firing on the ATO forces at 19:10 Kyiv time on Tuesday, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. "The Ukrainian military immediately opened fire in response. The...
Terrorist organization "Islamic State" published the video, which shows brutal murder "Russian spy". As the channel NBC, the video is named "You will be disappointed and humiliated, the Russians." According to NBC, on the video is an unknown man kneeling in front of another man, who has...
VLADIMIR Putin is preparing to send 150,000 troops to Syria in a bid to wipe out the evil Islamic State once and for all as he hints at joining the West following the Paris attacks. The Russian leader is reportedly mounting an enormous military mission to take control of the terror group's stronghold of Raqqa. The city is...
A crescent moon shines above Saturn's distinctive rings in a newly-released photo from NASA. Saturn's small, icy moon Enceladus looks like a sliver against the blackness of space in the photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft when the probe, charged with exploring Saturn and its moons, flew about 630,000 miles from...
Japan is at risk of cyber attacks on its essential infrastructure by Islamic State, Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission of Japan, cabinet minister Taro Kono said in an interview with Bloomberg two weeks after a series of lethal terrorist attacks in Paris. "What we need to be most concerned about is Islamic...
Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine Roman Waschuk says that his country has already started issuing multiple-entry visas for Ukrainian for 10 years. "We have already introduced these multiple-entry visas for 10 years. We are also trying to increase the proportion of those who receive these long-term visas for a period of...