18-year-old daughter of Joseph Prigogine — Danae did not seem averse to build a serious career in modeling. At first she tried her hand as a model for the gloss, and now intends to take part in a special beauty contest. As pointed out by the girl: to become a popular model — her dream. Young Prigogine (at age...
Like mother like daughter: How women start to become like their mums at age 32 (and some men too) It seems inevitable that we would all share more than a few similarities with our mothers. But now researchers have pinpointed the age of 32 as the time when we finally start to take in more of our maternal influences. A poll of...
A fire which broke out at a building planned to house migrants in eastern Germany was greeted with cheers from some onlookers, police say. The fire in the town of Bautzen in the early hours of Sunday morning destroyed the roof of a former hotel, which was being converted into a migrant shelter. Police said some of the crowd...
Bomb blasts in the Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus have left more than 100 people dead, monitors and state media say. In Homs, at least 57 people, mainly civilians, were killed in a double car bombing, a monitoring group reported. At least four blasts later struck the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, causing at...
Syria's embattled leader is ready for a ceasefire — with a catch. President Bashar al-Assad, who has weathered more than five years of civil war, told Spanish newspaper El Pais he "definitely" supports a pause in fighting, in part to allow more humanitarian aid to reach besieged civilians. He's only for...
MICROSOFT’S first in-house laptop is a beautiful and ambitious device with a stellar touchscreen display, awesome keyboard and stylus. Unfortunately, the Surface Book is not the ultimate laptop Microsoft claims it is – as a number of niggling flaws stop it from attaining greatness. Microsoft is becoming a master at...
CHILDREN were told to write to their parents explaining why they had converted to Islam as part of a bizarre homework assignment. Year 8 Pupils at Les Beaucamp High School in Guernsey were asked to explain to their parents “how becoming a pupil has changed your life how much you love your family and hope they can accept...
NIGEL Farage has likened the European Union to a “burning building” and urged the British public to dash to the “exit door”. The UKIP leader said: “The more I look at the EU — we’ve a currency crisis tearing north and south apart, a migrant crisis leading to walls being built in Austria...
When Madeline Stuart graced the New York Fashion Week runway in figure-hugging couture, she brought the fashion crowd to its feet. In that moment the 18-year-old model, who has Down syndrome, captured the hearts of people worldwide, but her own heart lies closer to home. On the same day she returned to her Queensland roots to...
Break for the Borders on a coach trip and find a side to the country that is very different to the tourist trail. ONE afternoon we’re in a stately home that once belonged to a very lucky boy. In 1848, when he was six months old, the Third Marquess of Bute inherited a fortune from his family’s coalmines, ironworks...
THE British Government has been accused of ostracising Commonwealth countries in favour of the European Union (EU). Commonwealth leaders are becoming increasingly concerned over their countries' futures as Prime Minister David Cameron pushes for Britain to remain in the EU. This week 80 business and community leaders from...
Donald Trump ran away with South Carolina. Hillary Clinton's strong organization and attention to local details staved off Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" in Nevada. And Jeb Bush dropped out. Trump has now won the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries against a fractured GOP field, while Sens. Ted...