Angelina Jolie Has a Political 'Mentor' as She Prepares for Possible Government Role Angelina Jolie is part of another power duo. A source exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly that the actress, 40, has "struck up a close friendship" with a British House of Lords member, Baroness Arminka Helic....
Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane conceded Barcelona are deserved La Liga champions after losing out to their arch-rivals by one point. Real won their last 12 league games, but Barca ended with five victories in a row after a blip in April saw their lead over Real closed from 10 points. "We're all disappointed, but with...
Eight people were killed and 44 others injured when a coach carrying people to a casino crashed in the US state of Texas. Police say the driver lost control and the bus rolled over on Highway 83 about 46 miles (74km) north of Laredo. No other vehicle was involved. Seven people died at the scene and one other died later in...
Militants from the Islamic State (IS) group have briefly overrun a hospital complex in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zour, reports say. Activists say about 35 pro-government fighters were killed and some medical staff taken hostage. More than 20 IS fighters were also reported killed. The attack was centred on al-Assad...
Ukraine's Jamala has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, held in Stockholm, Sweden. The country scored 534 points with its song 1944, about the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Josef Stalin. Australia finished second with 511 points, while Russia — which was the favourite going into the competition...
The Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, has threatened the seizure of factories that have stopped production and the jailing of their owners. In a speech to supporters in the capital Caracas, he said the country had to recover the means of production, to counter its deep economic crisis. On Friday, he introduced a new,...
President Barack Obama said Friday that an agreement between the U.S. and five Nordic nations to increase cooperation in the face of rising Russian aggression is an effort to ensure that "smaller nations are not bullied by larger nations.” The president hosted the leaders of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and...
Although Ted Cruz's presidential run has come to an end he continues to negatively comment on Presumptive GOP Donald Trump. Breitbart reported: Former 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz told radio host Michael Berry, when asked if Fox News treated the Texas senator fairly, “There were more than a few...
"George Clooney is a total prick and a massive hypocrite," says...
Police in New Hampshire have arrested the man suspected of wounding two officers in separate shootings early Friday that prompted a tense manhunt in a residential neighborhood of Manchester, the state’s largest city, authorities said. Ian MacPherson, 32, was apprehended around 5:00 a.m., three hours after he allegedly...
The winner of the International musical competition "Eurovision" Conchita Wurst (Austrian artist Thomas Neuwirth) took part in a new photo session, during which the shocking actress showed her spouse. To the public was the revelation that Conchita generally have a husband. It was understood that Wurst — romantic...
This week North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un capped years of political maneuvers, purges and executions by assuming the post of party chairman, declaring it the start of the "Kim Jong Un era." The event was widely seen as cementing his leadership role, but analysts in Washington and Seoul say that revitalizing the...