North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea's military has said. It said the missiles, launched off the east coast, flew some 500km (310 miles) and fell into the water. Shortly after the launch, Pyongyang announced it "nullifies" all inter-Korean cooperative projects and will...
Pasung, the Indonesian term for restraints or restrained, was banned in 1977, but is still widely used in a country where mental illness is a taboo issue. Concerned by the plight of these people, NY based photographer Andrea Star Reese spent 2011-2012 investigating the conditions of Indonesia’s mental health facilities...
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BRITISH sunseekers are being warned to expect a terror attack in popular Spanish resorts as the annual rush to bag bargain holiday deals in the run up to the summer gets underway. SPAIN TERROR WARNING: New ISIS threat revealed for holidaymakers in the Costa del Sol A leading security expert has issued a warning for a...
LORD Janner allegedly sexually abused children over a period of more than 30 years dating back to the 1950s, a public hearing was told today. The former Labour MP, who died aged 87 in December, arranged for children “in whom he had a sexual interest” to be brought to the Houses of Parliament, it was claimed. The...
STUDENTS have forced a Cambridge University college to remove a statue of a cockerel which has adorned its dining hall for years — because they complain it is racist. Jesus College has said it will consider repatriating the piece of art after students argued displaying it is a celebration of colonialism. The statue, known...
The Canberra bomber was designed way back in the 1940s. So why is Nasa still using three of them today? BBC Future investigates. In 1944, with World War Two entering its final stages, the British Air Ministry set out requirements for a new bomber, one that would be able to fly at high speeds and high altitudes. The ministry...
Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) has named two candidates, as the country starts the process of selecting a new president. Correspondents say one of them, Htin Kyaw, is almost certain to be elected president by the NLD-controlled parliament. The nominations confirm that NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not be...
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Everyone knows that Sergey Sosedov is a Russian journalist, controversial music critic and judge of the Ukrainian show "X Factor", is a man with different sexual orientations. It is known that he has a boyfriend in Kiev — Ukrainian singer Peter Dmitrichenko, but Sergei persistently denied the...
NORTH Korea has tried to attack South Korea’s transport system by hacking into railway workers' emails, spy chiefs say. Bosses at South Korea’s National Intelligence Service issued a statement overnight saying they had managed to stop the brazen attempts. The agency issued the statement after an emergency...
Europe is set to open it's first underwater museum and it looks as magical as it sounds. Work has begun on Musoe Atlantico, also known as Atlantic Museum, just off the coast of Lanzarote, Spain. The museum will be home to around 400 sculptures, created by British artist Jason deCaires Taylor, who designed similar creations...