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The Worst Plastic Surgery Disasters (Photo)
In trying to support a youthful appearance, people have spent their fair share of time in the plastic surgeon’s office. A little injection here and a little there, they can often get away with, but time after time they come up with a face full of mistakes. Most of the celebrities who started off perfectly beautiful, just...
Divers building ‘underwater church’ in Crimea, cross already in place (video)
Divers in Crimea have erected a large cross in the shape of an anchor off the Crimean coast. It heralds the start of construction work on building what they promise will be a full blown underwater church. The three-ton cross is just the beginning of an ambitious plan by Archimandrite Tikhon, a diving enthusiast and the...
What flying over Pluto’s moon Charon would look like (VIDEO)
A video of processed photos from NASA's New Horizon space probe shows what it would look like to fly over Pluto's largest moon. Russian enthusiast Roman Tkachenko has processed images that came from NASA’s New Horizon to turn them into a short video simulating flying over Charon. Tkachenko enhances openly...
Previously unseen footage of US 1955 nuke tests in Nevada (HD VIDEO)
Six decades after the events, a series of unreleased videos has seen the light of day: four atomic explosions carried out by the United States in 1955, as part of Operation Teapot. The operation was a series of fourteen nuclear test explosions carried out at the Nevada Test Site early that year, designed to further develop...
Two Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donbas conflict zone in last day
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but two were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday. "Over the last day, we haven't lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but two were...
Droneports: Revolutionary cargo drone delivery system to be tested in Rwanda (IMAGES)
Drones have been getting a bum rap in recent years, but this could soon change: Rwanda has been chosen as a test site for a revolutionary aid delivery system for remote areas. One British architect believes cargo drones could change the aid landscape forever. This could be the change aid agencies (and drone apologists) are...
Ousted Assad major threat to Gazprom
Toppling of Bashar al-Assad threatens to change the balance on the European gas market, as such developments will enable Qatar to build a direct pipeline through Syrian territory to Turke. "If Assad is toppled, Qatar can build a pipeline through Turkey to Europe, where it will push down Gazprom,” says head of the...
EU: agreement on small-caliber weapons withdrawal in Donbas «positive step»
The European Union called the agreement reached within the Trilateral Contact Group on withdrawal of small-caliber weaponsin the ATO zone a positive step forward, and urged to fulfill other Minsk agreements, in particular those regarding local elections. "The agreement on the withdrawal of tanks, artillery under 100mm and...
CNN: Russia conducts first airstrike in Syria (Video)
Russia has conducted its first airstrike in Syria, near the city of Homs, a senior U.S. official told CNN on Wednesday. The Russians told the United States that they should not fly U.S. warplanes in Syria, but gave no geographical information about where they planned to strike, CNN reports. The senior official said U.S....
Ocean sanctuary size of France announced by New Zealand in landmark deal
New Zealand will build an ocean sanctuary the size of France – one of the largest on Earth, in order to preserve marine life in a vast stretch of the South Pacific making up 15 percent of the country’s exclusive economic zone. The zone, announced by Prime Minister John Key, will be twice the size of the...
Luxury ice cubes? Greens slam ‘insane’ plan to carve Norway glacier
A controversial plan to harvest ice cubes from a melting Norwegian glacier and sell them in luxury bars across the globe has drawn criticism from the head of WWF Norge, who said that such an idea proves the world has gone completely insane. “To me, this is an example of the world’s complete...
U.S. to allocate $20 mln for Ukraine Army training, nonlethal aid
U.S. President Barack Obama delegated to the Secretary of State the authority to provide aid for Ukraine totaling $20 million in defense articles, military education and training, according to the Memorandum published on the White House’s website. “I hearby delegate <…> the authority to direct the...