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The network got video of Shakira and her husband
The media reported that unknown person threatened Colombian singer Shakira and her husband, the Spanish national team football player Gerard Pique, to publish an intimate video with their participation. Availability of records is nothing confirmed, and a representative of the pair denied information about...
Google will stop you hitting backspace in Chrome by mistake
Have you ever filled out a form in Chrome, only to hit the backspace key accidentally? Suddenly you're catapulted to the previous page in your browsing history, losing everything you had just submitted. It's not a deal-breaker, but frustrating all the same. To help, Google is experimenting with a version of Chrome that...
Libya unity government calls on international community for arms to fight Daesh
The Libyan unity government on Thursday called on the international community to provide it with arms to help fight Daesh. The government’s call comes hours after 32 of its fighters were killed in battles with Daesh, west of the coastal city of Sirte. The Associated Press quoted a statement by the government published on...
Daughter of Angelina Jolie wants to be a boy
If Shiloh Nouvel will insist on her decision to change sex, star parents will not discourage her. Fans of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt was shocked with the news: the daughter of the star couple, nine-year-old Shiloh Nouvel wants to change her sex. That Shiloh considers herself more a boy than a girl, it has long...
Oklahoma lawmakers pass bill to outlaw abortion
Lawmakers in the US state of Oklahoma have passed a bill that would make the act of performing an abortion a crime. Under the bill, a doctor who performs an abortion could be sentenced to up to three years in prison and be barred from practising medicine in the state. Abortion is legal in the United States and abortion-rights...
Actors of «Santa Barbara». Then and now
American TV series "Santa Barbara" was first released in 1984 and immediately captured the audience. The most popular "soap opera" has allowed the creators of more than one year continuously shoot turbulent life story of Californians. The latest series of "Santa Barbara" was shown on...
‘I hope he’s roasting in hell’: Deadliest school massacre remembered 89 years later
The passing of nearly nine decades hasn’t diminished a 104-year-old man’s view of Andrew Kehoe, the evil mastermind of the May 18, 1927, Bath School Disaster, a bombing that took the lives of 38 children as they attended class. George Baird, 104, now lives in an assisted living facility in Bath...
Apple Stores get major makeover
One of the most successful stores in the history of retail is getting a major makeover. Apple opened the 42-by-40-foot sliding glass doors to its new flagship store here Thursday, throwing the curtain back on a design that puts a premium on hanging out over shopping. Roughly 20% of the new store's space is dedicated to an...
Filmmaker Explores How to Love ‘Things Climate Can’t Change’ Rosanne Skirble
In his 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary "Gasland," filmmaker Josh Fox tackled the hotly debated method of extracting fossil fuel known as fracking, and he continued to explore the subject in "Gasland II" in 2013. He's back with the final film in his trilogy about climate change. VOA’s Rosanne...
Kim Kardashian on the red carpet
Cannes Film Festival this year, simply shines with all sorts of "rebellious" alongside celebrities who want to stand out from the crowd. In particular, on the evening before the cameras output was spotted Kim Kardashian in dress from the Lan...
Young Minds Solve a City’s Old Problems
Every city has its problems, and hopefully is always looking for unique ways to solve them. One eastern U.S. city is hoping the creativity and outside the box thinking of young people can come to the rescue. An oyster habitat, abandoned houses converted to gardens, a cart that turns into a homeless shelter, a...
Segregation in US Schools Persists 62 Years After Court Ruling
The words are some of the most iconic to ever come out of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that in his 1954 opinion in the...