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Hong Kong shares sink 4% after Lunar New Year break
Hong Kong shares joined the downward trend across Asia as trading resumed after the Lunar New Year break. The Hang Seng was down a sharp 4.1% to 18,506.11 points. Markets in China remained closed for a longer New Year break. Those markets that were open in the region over the past days had all seen hefty losses. Japanese shares...
Selfie that could cost $1600 a day
A SELFIE that a passenger took with a snoozing politician on-board a plane will cost him 1000 euros ($1589) per day if he doesn’t remove it from the internet, a court has ruled. French dancer Brahim Zaibat, a former lover of Madonna, took a picture of far-right National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, 87, with his head...
Russia, pressed to end Syria bombing, proposes March truce
World powers pressed Russia on Wednesday to stop bombing around Aleppo in support of a Syrian government offensive to recapture the city and a Western official said Moscow had presented a proposal envisaging a truce in three weeks' time. Secretary of State John Kerry is pushing for a ceasefire and more aid access to Aleppo,...
Oregon stand-off: Occupiers ‘ready to surrender’
The four armed occupiers of a US government wildlife reserve in the US state of Oregon are preparing to surrender, a member of the group says. Sean Anderson said they would leave the Malheur complex on Thursday morning, in a live broadcast on the internet. Earlier, the FBI moved in on the group, which had been entrenched for 40...
Aleppo fighting displaces 50,000 people, says Red Cross
A surge in fighting in Syria's Aleppo province has displaced about 50,000 people, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned. The humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, the ICRC added, with water supplies to Aleppo city cut. The Syrian government is attempting to recapture rebel-held parts of...
Shark attacks reach record high in 2015 – majority take place in US
The number of unprovoked shark attacks reached a record high of 98 in 2015 – a massive jump of 26 from 2014, beating the previous record of 88 from back in 2000. The US led the way with 59 unprovoked attacks, surpassing its previous high of 53 in 2012 and 2000, according to the International Shark Attack File, which began...
Велина Узунова – Най-красивите жени са в България (снимки)
Сн. Личен ФБ профил В рамките на проекта ми “Красивите лица на България”, днес ви представям прелестната Велина. На някои тя е позната от участието й в конкурса “Мис...
Why Americans don’t live as long as Europeans
Americans die younger than people in other high-income countries, and drug poisonings, gun injuries and motor vehicle crashes are largely to blame, a study finds. To see how the United States measures up in terms of life expectancy, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention compared its death rates in 2012...
Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
How does it feel to give up your nationality, to renounce the country you were born in, potentially forfeiting the chance to ever return? "It's not going to be easy at all. It's the last thing I ever thought of doing," Jane tells me when I meet her in a Paris cafe. Her voice cracks and her eyes well up. She is...
The network gathered the classification of twins Putin
The network has a complete classification of twins Putin identified in the period from 2010 to 2015. The last double codenamed "Kuchma " was found in St. Petersburg during the visit of President Atambayev of Kyrgyzstan. In total, according to experts, there are 7 options "Putin " which screened at...
Angelina Jolie Adds Three More Large Tattoos to Her Body
The 40-year-old mother of six isn’t done getting ink. At ast count, Angelina Jolie was thought to have around 17 tattoos on her body, including a new forearm tattoo she added just in December. But now the count is up to 20 as photos of Jolie on the set of her new film, First They Killed My Father, revealed three new...
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