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World's largest hotel coming to Mecca

World's largest hotel coming to Mecca

Twelve towers, 10,000 rooms and 70 restaurants, plus helipads and a full-size convention center: That's the plan for Abraj Kudai, a complex in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that's set to become the world's largest hotel by room count when it opens in 2017. May 22 2015, 16:51 1 187 просмотрs

Indian Company Wants Cooperation With Russia to Manufacture Nuclear Subs

Indian Company Wants Cooperation With Russia to Manufacture Nuclear Subs

An Indian company reportedly seeks partnership with Russia to locally manufacture nuclear submarines and stealth warships. May 22 2015, 10:28 1 177 просмотрs

New Suspect in Murder of Russian Opposition Politician Nemtsov

New Suspect in Murder of Russian Opposition Politician Nemtsov

Another suspect in the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been found, the Russian Kommersant newspaper reported Friday. May 22 2015, 10:22 1 305 просмотрs

Bin Laden’s will revealed – & interest in Illuminati, 9/11 conspiracy theories

Bin Laden’s will revealed – & interest in Illuminati, 9/11 conspiracy theories

The United States has made public a trove of documents that intelligence officials say were taken by Navy SEALs during the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound that show the late terrorist's interest in France, economics and conspiracy theories. May 21 2015, 16:09 1 717 просмотрs

Merkel dampens eastern states' hopes for EU membership

Merkel dampens eastern states' hopes for EU membership

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the European Union's policy towards eastern Europe is not intended to curtail Russian influence in the region. The EU is expected to reaffirm ties to six former Soviet republics. May 21 2015, 15:53 1 120 просмотрs

ISIL controls more than half of Syria after seizing Palmyra

ISIL controls more than half of Syria after seizing Palmyra

More than 100 Pro-Syrian government fighters have been reported killed as ISIL captured all of the historic city of Palmyra according to the British-based Syrian observatory for Human rights. May 21 2015, 14:00 1 266 просмотрs

Cleveland man wrongly imprisoned for 40 years sues officers who 'framed' him

Cleveland man wrongly imprisoned for 40 years sues officers who 'framed' him

A man who spent nearly 40 years in prison for a murder he did not commit filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against the city of Cleveland and the police officers who he says helped frame him in 1975. May 20 2015, 16:47 1 405 просмотрs

4-mile oil slick lines California coast after pipeline spill

4-mile oil slick lines California coast after pipeline spill

A broken onshore pipeline spewed oil down a storm drain and into the Pacific Ocean for several hours before it was shut off, creating a slick some 4 miles long across a scenic stretch of central California coastline, officials said. May 20 2015, 15:30 1 181 просмотрs

Chechen Official's Call to Legalize Polygamy Stirs Social Debate

Chechen Official's Call to Legalize Polygamy Stirs Social Debate

A high-ranking Chechen official's call Tuesday to legalize polygamy in Russia after a local district police chief took a 17-year-old girl as his second wife last week has prompted soul searching among the Russian population, which remains torn between its relative acceptance of extramarital affairs and its attachment to the legal and social status quo, sociologists told The Moscow Times. May 20 2015, 12:37 1 529 просмотрs

Russian team faces punishment for leaving ice before O Canada at hockey worlds

Russian team faces punishment for leaving ice before O Canada at hockey worlds

Russia will be sanctioned after their players showed a lack of respect to Canada following a 6-1 loss in the final of the world championships in Prague, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) said on Monday. May 20 2015, 12:33 1 406 просмотрs

Russians captured in Ukraine send messages back home

Russians captured in Ukraine send messages back home

Lonely and hurting, two men lie in narrow beds in a Kiev hospital as controversy swirls around them. May 20 2015, 12:06 1 381 просмотрs

6 Chinese citizens charged with stealing Silicon Valley trade secrets

6 Chinese citizens charged with stealing Silicon Valley trade secrets

Three Chinese professors were among six people charged in federal court with stealing trade secrets from two U.S. companies, including one based in San Jose, and sharing them with a university in China to obtain contracts. May 20 2015, 10:20 1 240 просмотрs

ISIS Holds Massive Military Parade in West Anbar Celebrating Victory in Ramadi

ISIS Holds Massive Military Parade in West Anbar Celebrating Victory in Ramadi

May 19 2015, 17:58 1 995 просмотрs

Thousands attend counter-protest in Macedonia

Thousands attend counter-protest in Macedonia

Show of strength comes after opposition supporters accuse PM of corruption, phone tapping and inflaming ethnic tensions. May 19 2015, 16:07 1 294 просмотрs

Death toll in multi-storey building fire in Baku reaches 13

Death toll in multi-storey building fire in Baku reaches 13

The death toll in a fire in a multi-storey building in Azadlig Avenue in Baku, Azerbaijan, has reached 13, the representative of the Azerbaijani Healthcare Ministry, Safaya Ahm May 19 2015, 15:23 2 010 просмотрs

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death

After a trial that lasted over two months, a federal jury needed just 14 hours of deliberations to come to the unanimous decision that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be executed. Tsarnaev, who along with his brother, Tamerlan, planted bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon, did not express any emotion in the courthouse as the verdict on his punishment was announced late this afternoon. In the immediate aftermath of the ruling, newly appointed Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the sentence “a fitting punishment for this horrific crime." May 19 2015, 15:00 1 114 просмотрs

Pakistani Christian erecting 140-foot cross in nation's biggest city

Pakistani Christian erecting 140-foot cross in nation's biggest city

A Pakistani businessman who is building a 14-story cross in the heart of Pakistan's largest city claims he got the idea when God came to him in a dream. May 19 2015, 12:24 1 239 просмотрs

Thai ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra's negligence trial begins

Thai ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra's negligence trial begins

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has pleaded not guilty in a brief hearing at the start of her trial on charges of negligence. May 19 2015, 10:59 1 088 просмотрs

Eurovision 2015 Opening: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Conchita Wurst And Lidia Baich

Eurovision 2015 Opening: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Conchita Wurst And Lidia Baich

The Official Opening Ceremony for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 has been held in the Vienna City Hall, where all the artists and delegations were invited by the city authority, host broadcaster ORF and the EBU. The Red Carpet event and the Opening Ceremony was streamed LIVE at 17:50 CET on Eurovision.tv and on our Youtube Channel. If you missed the broadcast and our live coverage, you can still find all the content here. May 18 2015, 16:10 2 101 просмотрs

ISIS seizes key Iraqi city of Ramadi

ISIS seizes key Iraqi city of Ramadi

The key Iraqi city of Ramadi fell to ISIS on Sunday after government security forces pulled out of a military base on the west side of the city, officials said. May 18 2015, 14:53 1 177 просмотрs

China: Fuzhou flooded as heavy rain lashes Fujian Province

China: Fuzhou flooded as heavy rain lashes Fujian Province

Heavy rain and hail have lashed Fuzhou, the capital of China's Fujian Province, causing flooding and driving the temperature down by ten degrees Celsius. May 18 2015, 10:28 1 242 просмотрs

Great Wall of Ukraine: Kiev to Spend $200 Mln to Wall Off Russia

Great Wall of Ukraine: Kiev to Spend $200 Mln to Wall Off Russia

The Ukrainian government has approved an approximate price tag for the construction of a so-called “wall" along its border with Russia: the newly-released cost estimate of $500 mln as of the end of 2014 has been slashed to approximately $200 mln; and the works will run faster – it will now take three years rather than four, as was claimed earlier. May 15 2015, 16:55 1 311 просмотрs

Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89 in Las Vegas

Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89 in Las Vegas

Riley B. King, the legendary guitarist known as B.B. King, whose velvety voice and staccato-picking style brought blues from the margins to the mainstream, died Thursday night. He was 89. May 15 2015, 16:43 1 084 просмотрs

Burundi coup 'failed,' says putsch leader's deputy

Burundi coup 'failed,' says putsch leader's deputy

Ndayirukiye's admission of failure came after the presidency announced that Nkurunziza - who had been in Tanzania when the coup was declared - had returned to the country. May 15 2015, 11:00 1 126 просмотрs

Philippine factory fire: Many dead in Manila

Philippine factory fire: Many dead in Manila

At least 45 people are now known to have died in a fire at a rubber shoe factory in a suburb of the Philippine capital Manila, local officials say. May 14 2015, 16:09 1 162 просмотрs