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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...
Up to 60 killed in suicide bombings in Nigeria refugee camp
At least 56 people were killed in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a refugee camp, officials have revealed. Reuters' sources put the deathtoll at over 60 people. The tragedy at the Dikwa refugee camp was only disclosed Wednesday because of a "disrpupted telephone...
Donald Trump Announces What Will Be Different About His White House Dinners
One of the many tasks of the president of the United States is hosting state dinners for various foreign dignitaries who come to the U.S to meet with the president. Usually these are elegant affairs, full of pomp and fancy food. But Politico reported that Donald Trump has promised that if he becomes president all of that will...
Meet Kristina Pimenova – the world’s most controversial supermodel at nine years old (Photos)
She's been called the 'most beautiful girl in the world', but nine-year-old Kristina Pimenova is polarising critics over her 'supermodel' status. She's featured in campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana and Roberto Cavalli, but online users have rallied together to express their outrage at her profile. Her...
Най-красивото дете в света е 9-годишно момиченце от Москва!
Едва на 9-годишна възраст малката Кристина Пименова може да се похвали със собствен 5-годишен стаж като професионален модел. Живеещата в руската столица притежателка на ангелско...
Shipping container sensation: Massachusetts man sings like an angel in storage unit (VIDEO)
This shipping container singing sensation is not quite on the level of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, but everybody has to start somewhere. Bocelli may have honed his musical craft at the University of Pisa and in Italian piano bars, but it seems steel freight boxes could work just as well. David Jeremiah Mullins was moving...
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Photos)
The Soviet Union was a big country, but the empire was once end their existence. So far 1991 in the USSR, as a state came to an...
