This woman rose above the challenges of her own experience to help others in similar situations. Basma Hameed, originally from Iraq, was severely burned by hot oil in a kitchen accident when she was 2 years old, CBC News reported. Although she underwent more than 100 procedures in an attempt to conceal her third-degree burns,...
Russia's intervention in Syria will curtail the spread of terrorism and help deal a fatal blow to Islamic State in the war-torn country, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday, according to Reuters. Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades,...
The enemy was observing a full ceasefire and did not open fire on Ukrainian positions in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone in Ukraine's east on Sunday, October 4, according to the ATO press center. The truce has allowed Ukraine to start scheduled withdrawals of military hardware and weapons whose caliber is under...
A Mexican girl has become one of the world’s youngest mothers after giving birth aged just NINE . The youngster, named only as Dafne, gave birth to a 6lb baby girl on January 27 at the Zoquipan Hospital, in Mexico's western Jalisco state. But the young girl is in fact four years older than the youngest mother in...
A quarter of a century has passed since 'East' and 'West' Germany reunited. The country’s financial capital, Frankfurt, saw hundreds of people protesting in the city during the visit of Chancellor Merkel. The annual celebration of a German national holiday, the 25th anniversary of the reunification of...
Over the last hundred years, fashion has evolved in every possible way, including the most cherished and awaited outfit of every woman – the wedding dress. Watch this time-lapse video and see how bridal styles have changed through the years. The first thing you notice is that many features have endured: the Western...
Russia said on Saturday it would increase its air strikes in Syria and was willing to cooperate with all interested countries after carrying out more than 60 sorties in 72 hours there, according to The Daily Mail. "We will not only continue strikes… we will also increase their intensity," said Andrei Kartapolov...
The U.S. military on Saturday acknowledged it may have bombed a hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz in an air strike that killed at least nine people and wounded 37, according to Reuters. "U.S. forces launched an air strike at 02:15 a.m. (17:45 ET), the spokesman, Col....
Ukraine will begin the withdrawal of military equipment and small-caliber weapons from the demarcation line in the Donbas conflict zone in the afternoon on Saturday, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday. "In the afternoon on...
Despite the compliance with the ceasefire, a threat of active hostilities still remains in the Donbas conflict zone, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov told journalists after visiting a National Guard's training center in Kyiv region. "Ukraine fulfills all of its obligations...
In trying to support a youthful appearance, people have spent their fair share of time in the plastic surgeon’s office. A little injection here and a little there, they can often get away with, but time after time they come up with a face full of mistakes. Most of the celebrities who started off perfectly beautiful, just...
A video of processed photos from NASA's New Horizon space probe shows what it would look like to fly over Pluto's largest moon. Russian enthusiast Roman Tkachenko has processed images that came from NASA’s New Horizon to turn them into a short video simulating flying over Charon. Tkachenko enhances openly...