A woman who was bullied for the way she looks is the focus of a new film that premieres at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on Saturday. What started as a search for music online — purely homework procrastination — would change Lizzie Velasquez's life. She was 17 when she stumbled across a...
An American Airlines pilot died on Monday on a red-eye flight from Phoenix to Boston. The flight was diverted to Syracuse, New York, where the co-pilot landed the plane safely. "Syracuse, American 550, medical emergency, captain is incapacitated, request handling for runway," the co-pilot can be heard saying on a...
Russian jets hit Islamic State targets in the Syrian city of Palmyra and the northern province of Aleppo, Syrian state television and a monitoring group said on Tuesday, in some of the heaviest Russian attacks on the hardline Islamist group, according to Reuters. The strikes destroyed 20 vehicles and three weapons depots in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is strengthening his negotiating power with the European Union, and the United States, in the standoff around Ukraine by backing Bashar al-Assad in Syria and bombing rebel militants there, even if they do not belong to Islamic State. Not only is Russia now setting the pace in the conflict in...
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has amended some legislative acts on military service in the Ukrainian Armed Forces by allowing foreign citizens and stateless persons to serve in the Ukrainian army, and at the same time it has toughened the responsibility for mercenary-related activity. The draft law on the amendments registered...
A Russian warplane violated Turkish airspace on Sunday, a Turkish foreign ministry official said, the second such breach over the past three days, prompting Ankara to once again summon Moscow's ambassador, Reuters reports. Turkey, a NATO member with the alliance's second biggest army, scrambled two F-16 jets on Saturday...
There were no cases of the violation of the ceasefire by illegal armed groups in the Donbas conflict zone in the last day, which allows Ukrainian troops to continue pulling back military hardware from the contact line, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). "The long-awaited ceasefire allows...
South Carolina has been hit by the worst floods in its history after days of torrential rainfall. So far nine people have lost their lives and hundreds of people have been rescued as more than 25 inches of rain spread across the south eastern state. Homes and businesses have been wrecked by the floods but these chilling images...
P. Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble — is a world-renowned Ukrainian dance company based out of Ukraine, well known for its innovative approach to the art form. The ensemble was created in 1937 by Pavlo Virsky and Mykola Bolotov, and guided by Pavlo Virsky until his death in 1975. During World War II,...
Park in a disabled space in Brazil at your peril. One man found out the hard way that parking your car in a spot reserved for people with disabilities is not a smart thing to do. The man’s car was covered – and we mean covered – in blue paper. White ‘disabled’ symbols were made with sheets of...
A young Chinese girl's journey to create a future for herself, despite losing both legs in a tragic accident, has become the story that inspired thousands of disable people in China. Qian Hongyan, from Yunnan, south west China, made the headlines in 2005 when she was photographed 'walking' with the help of a...
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another five were wounded in a landmine blast on Sunday evening while patrolling their sector in the Donbas conflict zone, representative of the Donbas Battalion Yevhen Shevchenko said on Monday, according to Ukrainian TV Channel 112. "The soldiers who came to their rescue also got...