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Paris arrests: Four held amid France attack plot fears
Four people have been arrested in the Paris area as part of a wider investigation into a possible plot against French targets, officials say. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said they had information to suggest one of those arrested "could undertake violent actions in France". But he played down French media...
Brussels raid over Paris attacks: Dead gunman was Algerian national
A terrorism suspect shot dead in a raid in a Brussels suburb on Tuesday has been identified as Algerian national Mohamed Belkaid, officials say. He was killed by snipers while trying to fire at police from an apartment window in the suburb of Forest. Four officers were wounded in the raid. Police are still hunting two suspects...
Guangzhou Evergrande: Inside China’s $185m football factory
Guangzhou, China. Rising from the early morning mist like a Disney castle sits the imposing face of what President Xi Jinping hopes is the future of Chinese football. Evergrande Football School is front and center in the push to bring footballing glory to a nation currently languishing in the lower echelons of the sport....
Now Putin ‘plans to ABANDON Assad’ after Russian leader hauls troops out of Syria
VLADIMIR Putin is poised to abandon his long-standing relationship with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Western diplomats believe. Negotiators locked in peace talks believe the Russian president's shock decision to withdraw troops from war-ravaged Syria suggests he could be prepared to force Assad to step down....
Mass migration fuels baby boom: One in SIX of all new European babies now born in UK
ONE in six of all European Union births in a year took place in Britain, official figures reveal. Experts said the baby explosion was in part fuelled by mass migration to the UK, with more than one in four children born here now having foreign mothers. The shock figures prompted fears that schools, hospitals, GP surgeries and...
US election 2016: Winners and losers on Super Tuesday II
In a golf tournament, the day before the final round is called "moving day". It's when the leaders pull away from the rest of the pack. A rookie or little-known duffer may have strung together a few good holes or even posted a nice round, but time and pressure expose their flaws. Tuesday was such a moment in the...
You’ll never believe what UFO’s sci-fi sex siren Lieutenant Gay Ellis looks like now…
SHE was the sexiest sci-fi siren of the seventies, thanks to her intergalactic purple bob and skimpy silver dresses, but British starlet Gabrielle Drake looks very different today. The now 71-year-old burst on to screens as Lieutenant Gay Ellis more than four decades ago in science fiction television series UFO. Defending Earth...
Who’s at the controls of Iran’s bot army?
A group of Twitter accounts seems to be designed to pump out crude Iranian propaganda aimed at an English-speaking audience — but the people behind it and their true motivations are a mystery. Dozens of accounts tweet to thousands of followers in waves every few minutes throughout the day using the hashtag "Powerful...
The godmother of manga sex in Japan
A recent UN report weighed into a debate that provokes intense controversy in Japan, by including manga in a list of content with violent pornography. The BBC's Yuko Kato went to meet one of Japan's leading female manga artists, Keiko Takemiya, seen as the woman who opened the floodgates to sexually explicit manga. Some...
US student Otto Warmbier given hard labour in North Korea
US student Otto Warmbier has been given 15 years hard labour in North Korea for crimes against the state. Warmbier, 21, was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while visiting North Korea in January. He later appeared on state TV apparently confessing and saying a church group had asked him to bring back...
Pakistan: Bus bomb explosion kills 15 in Peshawar
At least 15 people travelling on a bus have been killed by a bomb in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say. The vehicle was carrying government employees from nearby areas to the city. An improvised device apparently inside the bus caused the blast, police say. There has been no claim of responsibility,...
14-year-old daughter of Vera Brezhneva appeared in a new Russian brand lookbook (photo)
She is very young, but already successful! 14-year-old daughter of Vera Brezhneva — Sonya Kiperman, successfully stormed the fashion industry. Blondy often appears on the pages of magazines and confidently walks on the Fashion Week's podium in New York. ...
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