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2,000 weapons found on fishing boat
An Australian naval ship has seized a large arms cache that may have come from Iran and headed to Yemen by way of Somalia. The Australian Navy said that one of its ships patrolling the region, the HMAS Darwin, intercepted a small, stateless fishing vessel about 170 nautical miles off the coast of Oman when it made the...
Don’t you hate it when tobacco family fortunes get wasted on the fiscally responsible?
At 19 years old, Alexandra Andresen is the world’s youngest billionaire with a fortune estimated to be worth $1.2 billion… and apparently, pretty much all she does with that money is ride horses competitively. Along with her older sister Katharina, Alexandra shares a 44.2% stake in investment company Ferd, which...
Maria Sharapova admits to failing drug test, will be provisionally banned
Maria Sharapova, who has long been the world's richest female athlete, will be suspended from tennis after she admitted to failing a drug test at the Australian Open in January. A sombre looking Sharapova, speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles Monday, said she'd been taking the drug, meldonium, since 2006 and...
You’ll never guess what Dallas beauty Victoria Principal looks like now…
IT HAS been a staggering 38 years since Victoria Principal first stepped foot on Southfork Ranch as Pamela Barnes Ewing in huge CBS drama, Dallas. The actress was 27 when her on-screen alter-ego married the loveable Bobby Ewing in secret, before going on to be one of the most recognised TV couples ever. However, fast forward...
U.S. military spending millions to make cyborgs a reality
Washington. The U.S. military is spending millions on an advanced implant that would allow a human brain to communicate directly with computers. If it succeeds, cyborgs will be a reality. The Pentagon's research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), hopes the implant will allow humans to directly...
Two years, few answers: Will MH370 mystery ever be solved?
Two years after MH370 went missing and key questions remain unanswered: Where is the plane and what happened in the cockpit in the early hours of March 8, 2014? Amid the conspiracy theories, there are two main views on what might have happened. The first suggests that the captain hijacked the plane and flew it with all 238...
How Bollywood took Hollywood
Hollywood increasingly wants Indian stars on screen. Pay is another matter. Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra has plenty of experience of red carpets but this weekend was different. Rather than the usual gala premieres, she posed for hundreds of flashing cameras outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood before presenting a golden...
Egyptian student agrees to leave US after Trump comment
A student pilot from Egypt has agreed to leave the US after posting on Facebook that the world would thank him if he killed Donald Trump. Emadeldin Elsayed, 23, was not charged with a crime but the US authorities sought to deport him, his attorney, Hani Bushra, said. Immigration authorities said they would allow him to return...
Red guy from «Ivanushki International» showed his wife and grown-up son
Andrei Grigoriev Apollonov not immediately decided to marry a Marine, he did it only after she gave birth to a second son. In a civil union redhead and his mistress lived more than five years, during which time they had a son Ivan, and then...
What happened with characters of the cult children’s film «Guest from the Future»
There are photos of actors in our review, which the whole country knew at that time....
Two California deputies charged after prison ‘fight club’ uncovered
INMATES who were forced to brawl inside California prisons say the consequences for refusal involved being beaten, handcuffed, tasered and sprayed with mace. Ricardo Palikako Garcia says a pair of sheriff’s deputies overseeing inmates in a San Francisco prison were dealing out justice without having to lay a finger on...
IS teen girl stabs police officer in Germany
A TEENAGE Moroccan girl who cops now say was furious at having to move away from the Islamic State has been arrested following a shocking stabbing attack on a German officer. Breitbart reports that the 15-year-old was wearing a headscarf when she was approached by the officer at a Hanover train station in November. In startling...