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Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter after Holy Fire lights up in Jerusalem

Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter after Holy Fire lights up in Jerusalem

As Orthodox Christians were preparing for their most important annual religious holiday, a centuries old tradition has taken place in Jerusalem. The lighting of the Holy Fire has attracted pilgrims from around the globe and celebrates Jesus' resurrection. April 12 2015, 20:30 1 264 просмотрs

100 billion barrels worth of oil found near Gatwick Airport in London: British oil producer

100 billion barrels worth of oil found near Gatwick Airport in London: British oil producer

A small British oil producer said it has discovered a possible world class oil resource in the countryside to the south of London that could contain billions of barrels of oil. April 10 2015, 16:27 1 656 просмотрs

Polish president’s plane crash: Prosecutors release new transcripts confirming 3rd party in cockpit

Polish president’s plane crash: Prosecutors release new transcripts confirming 3rd party in cockpit

Pressured by the leak of a local radio station, the Polish Prosecutor's Office has released black box transcripts from the presidential plane that crashed in Russia in 2010. It confirms that unauthorized people were in cockpit, instructing the pilots. April 10 2015, 15:33 1 371 просмотрs

Lightning-zapped plane flies 3,000 miles with a hole in its nose

Lightning-zapped plane flies 3,000 miles with a hole in its nose

Once, while landing at JFK, a United 757 I was in was struck by lightning. April 10 2015, 13:32 1 451 просмотрs

Russian Programmer Volunteers for 'Frankenstein' Head Transplant

Russian Programmer Volunteers for 'Frankenstein' Head Transplant

A terminally ill Russian computer scientist has volunteered to have his head severed and transplanted onto a new body in a controversial procedure called HEAVEN, a news report said Wednesday. April 10 2015, 09:02 1 378 просмотрs

Milan court shooting: three people killed

Milan court shooting: three people killed

Three people have reportedly been killed by a gunman this morning - thought to be the defendant in a bankruptcy case. April 9 2015, 16:46 1 329 просмотрs

US warns Iran on support for Yemen rebels

US warns Iran on support for Yemen rebels

Washington warned Thursday it would not "stand by" while Iran supports rebels in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition pounded anti-government forces at the start of a third week of bombings. April 9 2015, 16:35 1 307 просмотрs

Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts in Boston bombing

Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts in Boston bombing

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his face a blank, stood with his head bowed and his hands clasped as the guilty verdicts tolled one after another for what seemed like an eternity: Guilty of using weapons of mass destruction, guilty of bombing a place of public use, guilty of conspiracy and aiding and abetting. Guilty, guilty, guilty: The word was spoken 32 times. April 9 2015, 16:16 1 270 просмотрs

UN paid Russian air charters hundreds of millions while Putin invaded Ukraine

UN paid Russian air charters hundreds of millions while Putin invaded Ukraine

In the 14 months since Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and sent proxy fighters to invade eastern Ukraine, Russian companies have won more than $212 million in United Nations contracts to ferry troops, supplies and equipment -- on peacekeeping missions. April 9 2015, 12:31 1 297 просмотрs

Russia Adds Transparency International To Foreign Agents List

Russia Adds Transparency International To Foreign Agents List

The Russian Justice Ministry has added Transparency International Russia to its list of organizations designated as "foreign agents." April 8 2015, 16:38 1 265 просмотрs

Shell in talks to buy Britain's £46bn BG Group

Shell in talks to buy Britain's £46bn BG Group

Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell is in talks to buy Britain-based gas producer BG Group, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing sources close to the matter. April 8 2015, 10:34 1 425 просмотрs

Blues legend B.B. King hospitalized

Blues legend B.B. King hospitalized

Blues legend B.B. King has been hospitalized for dehydration, his daughter says. April 7 2015, 17:14 1 444 просмотрs

Massive Bust Honoring Edward Snowden Appears in New York City

Massive Bust Honoring Edward Snowden Appears in New York City

New York residents awoke to find a mysterious new monument erected in a Brooklyn park on Monday morning, after a group of anonymous artists illegally installed a 100-pound bust of whistleblower Edward Snowden. April 7 2015, 10:55 1 266 просмотрs

35 killed in Bangladesh storms

35 killed in Bangladesh storms

Powerful storms swept Bangladesh at the weekend leaving a trail of devastation in the country's northwest and killing at least 35 people, officials said Monday. April 6 2015, 16:35 1 130 просмотрs

Czech president bans U.S ambassador from Prague Castle: media

Czech president bans U.S ambassador from Prague Castle: media

President Milos Zeman has "closed the door" of Prague Castle to the U.S. ambassador following comments perceived as critical of the Czech's decision to attend a World War Two commemoration in Moscow, according to local media reports on Sunday. April 6 2015, 15:00 1 034 просмотрs

Closing arguments set in Boston Marathon bombing trial

Closing arguments set in Boston Marathon bombing trial

With one last chance to connect with the jury, lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are expected to continue to portray him as an aimless college student who fell under the domineering influence of his radicalized older brother. April 6 2015, 10:32 3 458 просмотрs

Yemen conflict: Red Cross to send aid flights to Sanaa

Yemen conflict: Red Cross to send aid flights to Sanaa

The International Committee of the Red Cross is due to make two emergency aid flights into Yemen's capital, Sanaa. April 6 2015, 09:40 2 243 просмотрs

Unconventional All Women’s Mosque Opens in Los Angeles

Unconventional All Women’s Mosque Opens in Los Angeles

Once a month, Muslim women gather in a bright open space inside a brick building near downtown Los Angeles. They come for jumu'ah or Friday prayer. April 3 2015, 18:12 1 966 просмотрs

John Lennon's first wife Cynthia dies from cancer

John Lennon's first wife Cynthia dies from cancer

Cynthia Lennon, who married John Lennon when he was a struggling musician and was there when he rose to fame with the Beatles, died Wednesday, according to a post on the website of her son, Julian. She was 75. April 3 2015, 17:38 2 621 просмотрs

2nd Germanwings 'Black Box' Confirms Crash Was Deliberate

2nd Germanwings 'Black Box' Confirms Crash Was Deliberate

French aviation investigators said the first analysis of the second "black box" from the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps last month reinforces the theory that the co-pilot crashed the plane deliberately, killing all 150 people aboard. April 3 2015, 17:18 2 662 просмотрs

'Just Give Us Our Freedom,' Says Wife Of Exiled Crimean Tatar Leader

'Just Give Us Our Freedom,' Says Wife Of Exiled Crimean Tatar Leader

Mustafa Dzhemilev, the long-time leader of the Crimean Tatars has been banned from the peninsula since Russia annexed the Ukrainian region in March 2014. But his wife, Safinar Dzhemileva, remains in Crimea, living in a large house in Bakhchisarai, the traditional capital of the Crimean Tatar nation. April 3 2015, 16:05 2 728 просмотрs

Iran plans to boost Caspian Sea exploration activities

Iran plans to boost Caspian Sea exploration activities

Iran says it will expand exploration activities in the Caspian Sea as part of plans to discover new oil and gas fields. April 3 2015, 10:43 3 541 просмотрs

Netanyahu tells Obama Iran deal 'threat to Israel's survival': spokesman

Netanyahu tells Obama Iran deal 'threat to Israel's survival': spokesman

The framework nuclear deal agreed with Iran would jeopardise Israel's existence if implemented, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman quoted him as saying to US President Barack Obama on Friday. April 3 2015, 10:00 1 765 просмотрs

Attackers Storm Kenya University Campus, Dozens Injured

Attackers Storm Kenya University Campus, Dozens Injured

Gunmen have taken students hostage and killed at least 14 people at a university in north-eastern Kenya, aid workers and police say. April 2 2015, 15:33 2 791 просмотрs

Russian trawler sinks in freezing Western Pacific Ocean

Russian trawler sinks in freezing Western Pacific Ocean

A Russian trawler with around 130 people on board has sunk in the Western Pacific Ocean off Russia’s eastern coast. The vessel went down near the Kamchatka Peninsula. April 2 2015, 11:57 1 631 просмотрs