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Forget about selfie! New virus «Belfie» Conquer The Internet (PHOTO)
While therapists all over the world are seriously thinking of effective methods of combating badly overexposed Self, an online community mowed new scourge pohlesche previous. At this time, all active users of the World Wide Web, especially the network Instagram, share with your subscribers piquant photos of his fifth point....
Ringo Starr’s Beatles’ drum kit sells for $2.2m at auction
A drum kit that Ringo Starr used to record some of the Beatles’ early hits has sold for $2.2m at an auction to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. Julien’s Auctions says Irsay bought the 1963 Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl three-piece drum kit Friday at a sale in Beverly Hills, California. The two-day auction...
Close call: Two Chinese toddlers survive being run over by a car
A shocking video from eastern China shows two toddlers being hit by a car outside their kindergarten. Both miraculously survive, even though the car's wheels roll over one toddler and the other gets stuck under a wheel. The injuries the babies get are… scratches. The girl is seen getting held up right in front of the...
Russian Duma puts Russian law above rulings of intl human rights courts
MPs have expanded the law on the right of the Constitutional Court to annul rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to all international bodies for the protection of human rights. Now, Russia will be able to ignore the rulings of the UN Human Rights Committee. The Constitutional Committee of the State Duma...
Crimea blockade coordinator brands naval blockade «military operation»
Lenur Islyamov, the coordinator of a so-called Crimea blockade, announced another type of blockade planned besides the energy and naval ones, although refusing to elaborate on its nature. "Between the energy and naval blockade of Crimea there will be another one, and you will soon learn about it. I’m not going to...
“The Most Risky … Job Ever.” Reporting on “ISIS in Afghanistan”
ISIS in Afghanistan, Trailer The viciousness with which the self-proclaimed Islamic State has treated journalists is, sadly, well ingrained. In August 2014, the terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for last Friday’s horrific attack on Paris posted a video online showing the beheading of kidnapped...
Six books to read in December
From a history of gems to an account of the raid on Entebbe, the memoir of a sketch artist to a linguistic history of Europe, make shelf space for these, writes Jane Ciabattari. James Lee Burke, House of the Rising Sun Burke, named a ‘grand master’ by the Mystery Writers of America and winner of two Edgar awards, is...
Turkish PM says Turkey cannot be ‘brought to its knees’ by Russian economic sanctions
In a speech during a visit to Baku, Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu again defended Turkey's action, declaring that his country cannot be "brought to its knees" by Russian economic sanctions imposed in response to Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane, according to the Associated Press. "Those...
AFP: Thailand warned by Russia IS militants ‘have entered’ the kingdom
Moscow's top intelligence agency has warned that 10 Syrians linked to the Islamic State group have entered Thailand to target Russians, the kingdom's police said Friday, according to AFP. A leaked letter, marked "top secret" and "urgent" and signed by the deputy head of Thailand's special branch,...
DW: German parliament approves anti-IS Bundeswehr mission in Syria
Germany's parliament has voted overwhelmingly to join the 60-nation combat mission against the "Islamic State" (IS) militia in regions of Syria and Iraq, according to Deutsche Welle. Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition used its majority in the Bundestag on Friday to approve the deployment of up to 1,200...
Dmitry Shepelev found a new lover (Photo)
A friend and personal cosmetologist of Zhanna Friske Oksana Stepanova helps to educate the son of the late singer Platon. But the father of Friske Vladimir Kopylov claims that Stepanova and Dmitry Shepelev are secret lovers. Dmitry Shepelev brought into the house a new woman. It's Oksana Stepanova, who used...
Reuters: Obama says additional U.S. forces will help «squeeze» IS
President Barack Obama said his decision to send more U.S. special forces to combat Islamic State in Iraq is not an indication that the United States is headed for another invasion like the one in 2003 that locked it in a long, violent conflict, according to Reuters. Obama has said his strategy to fight the militant group in...