Pentagon looking at ‘military options’ to stop Islamic State from gaining more ground, four years after US air campaign helped topple Libyan dictator Gaddafi The Pentagon is considering fresh military action in Libya more than four years after conducting an air campaign that helped topple dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a...
The world champion acrobatic paraglider, Horacio Llorens, has made another dream of his come true after successfully “asking” the Aurora Borealis for a dance in Norway. The spectacular sight in a YouTube video by Red Bull shows the Spaniard gliding through the Northern Lights near Trømso, Norway. Llorens had...
A flash of fire and branches turned into a smoking wreck – a dramatic video has captured the moment a tree was struck by lightning at a school parking lot in Texas. The startling video was recorded by a security camera at Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic School in the city of Tyler on January 21, and later published by...
The authorities in Sweden are making plans to expel as many as 80,000 failed asylum-seekers, the interior minister was quoted as saying. Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years. "We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," Swedish...
President Obama’s final year in office marks the Guantanamo Bay detention facility’s 15th year in operation. RT interviewed David Remes, a lawyer who has advised over a dozen Gitmo inmates, about the rising stakes facing the remaining prisoners there. Remes, who left a lucrative position in corporate law in 2008 to...
Two people were reported injured and many vehicles were tossed about as a twister touched down in Coconut Creek, Florida. Heavy storms on Wednesday morning soaked the area, just a few miles inland from Florida's Atlantic coast, between Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. At Broward College, the twister picked up cars, tossing...
Twelve suspects have been arrested in two Canadian provinces, mostly in Quebec, during a major bust on an alleged online child sexual exploitation ring. The operation was the result of a three-year-long investigation. The suspects, aged 27 to 74, were detained on Wednesday in Quebec City, Montreal, Trois Rivieres, Toronto,...
Two elderly metro passengers in Munich were attacked by a group of young men of Middle Eastern appearance this weekend as they tried to protect a young female from being sexually harassed. The alleged asylum seekers went berserk when the old men intervened. The assault that took place on a train going from Sendlinger Tor...
Scars can be life-long reminders of abuse, so tattoo artist Flavia Carvalho decided to do something about it. Her project “A Pele da Flor” (The Skin of the Flower) is about giving hurt women tattoos free of charge. For two years, Carvalho has helped women cover scars left from knives and bullets, and from...
The Brazilian government is deploying more than 200,000 troops to spread awareness of the Zika virus, which has been linked to sever birth defects. The host country of this year’s Olympic Games is experiencing an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease. The uniformed soldiers would conduct door-to-door walks and hand out...
Europe is on a dangerous, slippery slope of increasing xenophobia and racism engendered by the influx of refugees. Denmark’s new confiscation law is a sign of the brooding, baleful climate. But the real answer to the problem is dealing with Europe’s support for Washington’s criminal wars. In other words,...
The day has finally come for all UFO lovers and those who still believe ‘the truth is out there’. The CIA has released thousands of declassified documents on flying saucers. The agency humorously noted that X-Files’ Fox Mulder would certainly love to use them to prove the existence of extraterrestrials....