Another 16 people have starved to death in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya since UN aid convoys reached it earlier this month, according to charity Medecins Sans Frontieres. The charity says there are also 33 people in danger of dying. Brice de la Vingne, MSF operations director, said the situation was "totally...
Rock star David Bowie left an estate valued at about $100m (£70m), according to his will which has been filed in New York. Half will go to his widow, Iman, along with the home they shared in New York. The rest is shared between his son and daughter. It was also revealed that Bowie had requested that his ashes be scattered...
An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's skies in late October, according to sources familiar with the matter. So far Egypt has publicly said it has found no evidence that the MetroJet flight, which crashed in...
In 1944, Russian forces led by Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin attack the German army in an attempt to win back Crimea, in the southern Ukraine, occupied by the Axis power. The attack would result in the breaking of German defensive lines in just four days, eventually sending the Germans retreating. Crimea was the territorial plaything...
THE UN human rights office says it has turned up six more cases of alleged sexual abuse against children by European troops in Central African Republic, including a seven-year-old girl who said she had to perform sexual acts on soldiers in exchange for water and cookies. A UN team recently interviewed five girls and a boy who...
Atlanta, Jennifer Teege thought she knew the hard truths of her life: that her German mother left her in the care of nuns when she was 4 weeks old, and that her biological father was Nigerian, making her the only black child in her Munich neighborhood. But the hardest truth came to her years later on a warm August day in...
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Austrian capital of Vienna chanting pro-refugee slogans to protest the annual Academics’ ball. The event, attended by German-language student networks, is deemed to be a meeting place for nationalists. Several protests were announced for the night of the ball, which is...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has never been one to hold back what's on his mind, especially in recent months. Back in May 2010, Trump, then the host of The Celebrity Apprentice, opened up to Us Weekly with 25 fun facts about himself. He revealed some of his favorite foods, how he gets to work every day,...
Italy is the last country in Western Europe without protections for same-sex couples, but its Parliament takes up a bill next week that could change that. Next week, Italy’s Parliament is scheduled to take up a law that would allow same-sex couples to enter civil unions. Tony Gentile / Reuters Italy is the only country in...
Angelina Jolie considered cutting a bathing sequence from By the Sea, because it was her first nude scene since her 2013 double mastectomy.'I realized it was going to be me in that bathtub,' the 40-year-old Oscar winner told the New York Times. 'But I told myself, "Put all of that aside." Like, you...
Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar and his beloved wife Anis al-Doleh. A few days ago the news spread around the world: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has revived the tradition of his grandfather and father and started a personal harem "Garden of Delights". Harem for europeans seems sort of abode young and beautiful women from...
Freshly unearthed bones prove that mammoths once roamed at the home of the Oregon State University Beavers. Dozens of skeletal remains, possibly as old as 10,000 years, were all dug out of the college’s football stadium. “Some of the bones are not in very good shape, but some are actually quite well...