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How Michelle Obama’s shopping trip to Spain cost taxpayers nearly $500,000
First Lady Michelle Obama's whirlwind tour of Spain in 2010 better have been a once in a lifetime trip, because her getaway cost taxpayers...
Standard & Poor’s cuts Spain’s credit rating to BBB+
Standard & Poor's has cut Spain's credit rating and warned of risks to come. S&P cut Spain two notches to BBB+, warning that the country...
US Secret Service in new sex scandal in El Salvador
The US Secret Service is now investigating another claims that some of its agents paid for strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador. An advance presidential...
Chen Guangcheng, China’s blind lawyer dissident, escapes from house arrest
Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer and one of China's best known dissidents, has escaped from the house arrest. Rights activists say Chen Guangcheng slipped out...
Mark Duggan shooting footage emerged to media
Footage of the aftermath of the police shooting of Mark Duggan, whose death in north London sparked the 2011 summer riots, has emerged to...
Nigeria: at least 6 people killed in explosions at two offices of ThisDay newspaper
At least six people have been killed in two explosions at the offices of major Nigerian daily ThisDay, according to witnesses. Three people were killed...
The Golden Lie that Kills. MindBomb for Roșia Montană.
Mindbomb's action The Golden Lie that Kills – MindBomb for Roşia Montană aims to raise public awareness in Romania about the toxic propaganda used in...
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: 26 years later
The world is marking today 26 years from the worst nuclear accident and Chernobyl survivors and victims’ families have held a midnight memorial. Dozens of...
Li Xueming, Bo Xilai’s brother, quits the board of China Everbright International
Li Xueming, also known as Bo Xiyong, Bo Xilai’s elder brother, has quit the board of China Everbright International, a Hong Kong-listed company. Everbright said...
Bo Xilai spied on China’s president Hu Jintao
The New York Times has recently reported that Bo Xilai ran a wire-tapping system that extended as far as China's president Hu Jintao. Citing "nearly...
Syria: at least 70 people killed in a massive explosion in Hama
Syrian activists say at least 70 people have been killed in an attack on a house in Hama. They said several houses in the Mashaa at-Tayyar...
Madeleine McCann pictured aged nine, as detectives reveal they think she is alive
Metropolitan Police in UK have issued a computer-generated image of what Madeleine McCann might look like now, as evidence into her disappearance are reviewed. The picture,...
Kung Fu Guinea Pig incredible flying kick in dog attack
Locals in Hradok, Slovakia, are currently living in a fear of this tiny tearaway - whose fearsome fighting skills have seen it dubbed the...
UK economy returns to recession after three years
The Office for National Statistics in UK has announced that the country’s economy has returned to recession, after shrinking by 0.2% in the first...
Newt Gingrich will quit presidential campaign next week
US media report that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is expected to suspend his campaign next week. Newt Gingrich said on Wednesday that he expected...
How Oh Kil-nam’s life was ruined by his defection to North Korea
Oh Kil-nam, a retired South Korean economist, says his life was ruined by his decision to defect to North Korea. Oh Kil-nam, 70, still does...
International German Beard and Moustache Championships 2012 in Bad Schussenried
The 2012 International German Beard and Moustache Championships have been held in Bad Schussenried. Beards from around the world have travelled to Bad Schussenried and...
Driver parks on metro station stairs in Paris
A confused driver has ended up trapping his car on the steps of Chaussee d'Antin-La Fayette metro station in Paris, after mistaking it for...
Mitt Romney wows to take the White House from Barack Obama
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidential elections in US, has vowed to take the White House from President Barack Obama and...
Bo Guagua, the son of Chinese politician Bo Xilai, defends his lifestyle
Bo Guagua, the son of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, has defended his lifestyle in an open letter to his university. In the letter to...
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir says Sudan has “declared war” on his country
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir says Sudan has "declared war" on his country, following weeks of fighting along their common border. President Salva Kiir was...
The story of Steven Thorpe, a teenager who made a miracle recovery from coma after four doctors declared him brain-dead
Steven Thorpe, a British teenager who was declared brain dead by four doctors, made a “miracle” recovery after his parents begged medics for a...
Why do so many French people vote?
French turnout in the first round of the presidential election was more than 80%, one of the highest in the world. It's a measure of...
Actor Tiago Klimeck playing Judas dies from accidental hanging
Brazilian actor Tiago Klimeck has died after accidentally hanging himself while playing Judas in an Easter Passion play. Tiago Klimeck, 27, was enacting the suicide...
Two Welshmen charged over stolen fairy penguin Dirk from Sea World park in Australia
Two men from Wales have been charged after a fairy penguin was taken from Sea World theme park in Queensland, Australia. The pair, aged 20...
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