A SENIOR Labour MP has questioned whether the new Mayor of London will be allowed into the United States if Donald Trump wins the presidency. Diane Abbott made the comments just hours after Sadiq Khan beat out Tory rival Zac Goldsmith to become the third Mayor of London. Presidential hopeful Donald Trump called in December for...
Rebels seized a village from government forces near Aleppo overnight, a monitoring group and rebel sources said on Friday, gaining important ground near the Syrian city where the United States and Russia are trying to de-escalate the war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 73 people had been killed in the battle for...
British astronaut Tim Peake feared being left in space if the West's relationship with Russia deteriorated, a Foreign Office minister said. But Tobias Ellwood told members of Parliament he had received assurances from Russian President Vladimir Putin that Peake will not be abandoned on the International Space Station. The...
To commemorate paying off his student loans, rapper Dee-1 made a music video that went...
Politicians are people too, and though they should more carefully to relate to their wardrobe, nevertheless no one, whether minister or the Queen herself, is not immune to surprises. We remembered the most curious cases with wardrobe...
With Donald Trump the likely nominee for the Republican party, anti-Trump protesters are turning up the heat on corporations that are sponsoring the GOP convention in Cleveland in July. Now that Trump's last competitors have dropped out of the race, protesters are ramping up their efforts against corporate sponsorship at...
A former Los Angeles trash collector was convicted Thursday of 10 counts of murder in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killings that targeted poor, young black women over two decades. Lonnie Franklin Jr. showed no emotion as the verdicts were read and family members who had wondered if they would ever see justice quietly...
A South Florida man recently helped save his wife's life by calling 911 after he heard her being kidnapped at gunpoint through the Bluetooth earpiece she had on at the time, according to officials. The harrowing incident happened this past Tuesday when 49-year-old Priscilla Cercone was sitting in her car in front of her...
THE European Union was created in order to become a "United States of Europe" according to one of the founders of the 28-member bloc. Georges Berthoin, a surviving member of the European coal and steel commission cabinet, has revealed the initial idea of the EU was to create a closer union. The cabinet was the first...
While some in the GOP may be coming to grips with Donald Trump as their standard bearer this November, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren took to Twitter to make clear how she feels about the possibility of Trump in the White House. In a series of tweets, Warren slammed what she calls the Trump campaign's "racism,...
"Star Wars" fans have a big reason to celebrate today. May 4, or, "May the 4th Be With You," marks a celebration of all things "Star Wars." (Yes, it's a pun. In case it's not obvious, it's a take on the popular line from the film, "May the force be with you.") According to...
James Bradley, the author of "Flags of Our Fathers," is convinced that his father John Bradley did raise an American flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, but not the one captured in the iconic photo that popularized a later flag-raising. Earlier this week, the Marine Corps announced it was reviewing research...