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Olympic athletes struggle with mushy snow as Sochi heats up

Olympic athletes struggle with mushy snow as Sochi heats up

The combination of soft mountain snow and a coastal Olympic park full of palm trees was a winner when Sochi was bidding for the Olympics, but the Black Sea sunshine is now posing problems for athletes and organizers, themoscownews.com reports. February 13 2014, 12:02 1 507 просмотрs

Ukrainian judge reviewing protesters' cases killed

Ukrainian judge reviewing protesters' cases killed

Unknown assailants in the Poltava region of Ukraine have shot the judge who ruled on the arrest motions for the pro-Eurozone protesters, Ukrainian Interior Ministry reports on Wednesday, rapsinews.com reports February 12 2014, 18:37 1 530 просмотрs

Moscow teen school shooter charged with murder, hostage taking

Moscow teen school shooter charged with murder, hostage taking

Sergey Gordeev, the 15-year-old who was arrested last week after a shootout and hostage crisis in a Moscow school that left a teacher and a police officer dead has been officialy charged with murder, intent to commit murder, and the taking of hostages, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin announced Wednesday, rapsinews.com reports. February 12 2014, 18:15 1 943 просмотрs

Cops shut down restaurant for selling HUMAN flesh

Cops shut down restaurant for selling HUMAN flesh

Police officers arrested 11 including the owner when they raided the eatery in Nigeria, mirror.co.uk reported Wednesday. February 12 2014, 18:07 2 222 просмотрs

Norway Flexes Skiing Muscles as 'iPod' Shuffles to Gold on Day 4 at Sochi

Norway Flexes Skiing Muscles as 'iPod' Shuffles to Gold on Day 4 at Sochi

Day four of competition at the Sochi Olympics saw an exhibition of Norwegian endurance skiing and a man nicknamed "iPod" shuffle to gold in the halfpipe, while snowboard king Shaun White lost his Olympic crown, ria.ru reports. February 12 2014, 15:59 1 472 просмотрs

Carina Vogt wins historic first women's ski jump gold

Carina Vogt wins historic first women's ski jump gold

Germany's Carina Vogt won a historic gold, Austria's Daniela Iraschko-Stolz took silver and Coline Mattel of France bronze in the Olympic debut of women's ski jump, leaving a three-skier American team savoring the symbolism of the moment rather than Winter Games glory, usatoday.com reports. February 12 2014, 09:51 1 263 просмотрs

Algeria mourns dozens killed in military plane crash

Algeria mourns dozens killed in military plane crash

Algeria has begun three days of national mourning for the 77 people killed in a military passenger plane crash in the north-east of the country, bbc reports. February 12 2014, 09:42 2 014 просмотрs

Tsarnaev lawyers want trial next year, expected to last 3 months

Tsarnaev lawyers want trial next year, expected to last 3 months

Prosecutors say the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzkokhar Tsarnaev is expected to last three months, plus another six weeks if he is convicted and jurors then have to decide whether he should be put to death, foxboston.com reports. February 11 2014, 16:21 1 311 просмотрs

Top Pentagon Leader Ordered Destruction of bin Laden Death Photos

Top Pentagon Leader Ordered Destruction of bin Laden Death Photos

Judicial Watch announced Monday that it received documents through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit showing that Admiral William McRaven ordered the immediate destruction of any photos of Osama bin Laden’s death within hours of a Judicial Watch FOIA request, freebeacon.com reports February 11 2014, 14:06 1 324 просмотрs

On Day 3 of Sochi, Canada Streaks Ahead on Ice and Snow

On Day 3 of Sochi, Canada Streaks Ahead on Ice and Snow

On Sochi’s Black Sea coast and up in the Caucasus mountains, Monday was Canada’s day at the Winter Olympics, as two of its biggest winter sports stars snatched gold, ria.ru reports. February 11 2014, 11:23 1 938 просмотрs

French President arrives solo to White House

French President arrives solo to White House

French President Francois Hollande starts a visit to the United States on Monday with spats over U.S. eavesdropping and trade talks with the EU unlikely to chill a relationship now far warmer than before the 2003 U.S.-led war on Iraq, reuters reports. February 10 2014, 18:04 2 207 просмотрs

600 evacuated from blockaded Syrian city of Homs

600 evacuated from blockaded Syrian city of Homs

Hundreds of civilians were evacuated from the besieged Syrian city of Homs, braving gunmen spraying bullets and lobbing mortar shells to flee as part of a rare three-day truce to relieve a choking blockade. timeslive.co.za reports. February 10 2014, 17:46 2 354 просмотрs

Medieval knights, catapults and golden toilets – Ukraine's innovative protesters

Medieval knights, catapults and golden toilets – Ukraine's innovative protesters

The pro-democracy movement fighting Viktor Yanukovych's government is organised and inventive – replacing Lenin's statue with a toilet and wearing suits of armour on the streets, theguardian.com reports. February 10 2014, 17:22 3 090 просмотрs

Under Putin's Gaze, Russia Schools the World in Team Figure Skating

Under Putin's Gaze, Russia Schools the World in Team Figure Skating

Russian President Vladimir Putin gazed down approvingly from the stands as his country schooled the rest of the world in figure skating, winning its first gold medal of the Sochi Olympics in the process ria.ru reports. February 10 2014, 10:10 2 564 просмотрs

American Sage Kotsenburg wins first gold medal of Sochi Olympics in slopestyle

American Sage Kotsenburg wins first gold medal of Sochi Olympics in slopestyle

The United States clinched the first gold medal of the Winter Olympics on Saturday when Sage Kotsenburg won the snowboard men's slopestyle, cnn reports. February 8 2014, 18:43 1 516 просмотрs

CNN apologizes for calling Brest Fortress one of ugliest monuments ever

CNN apologizes for calling Brest Fortress one of ugliest monuments ever

Thursday, the American TV channel CNN editorial board asked forgiveness from the people who were offended at the mention of the monument to the defenders of the Brest fortress in a report about the least beautiful monuments in the world, voiceofrussia.com reported. February 7 2014, 15:46 3 057 просмотрs

Sochi Winter Olympics news feed: Day 2

Sochi Winter Olympics news feed: Day 2

The most important moments of the second Olympic day in Sochi. February 7 2014, 15:32 1 983 просмотрs

Sochi Winter Olympics news feed: Day 1

Sochi Winter Olympics news feed: Day 1

Highlights of the main events and statements of the first day of Sochi Olympics. February 7 2014, 15:24 1 737 просмотрs

XXII Olympic Winter Games to open in Sochi February 7

XXII Olympic Winter Games to open in Sochi February 7

88 teams will compete in the Sochi Olympics, a record number in the history of Winter Olympic Games. The opening ceremony will begin at Sochi’s Fisht Stadium at 20:14 Moscow time (16:14 GMT). The Olympic flag with five rings symbolizing the unity of athletes around the world will be hoisted and the Olympic flame will be lit, itar-tass reports. February 7 2014, 15:17 2 214 просмотрs

Ukraine crisis: Leaked phone call embarrasses US

Ukraine crisis: Leaked phone call embarrasses US

An apparently bugged phone conversation in which a senior US diplomat disparages the EU over the Ukraine crisis has been posted online, bbc.co.uk reports. February 7 2014, 11:43 1 273 просмотрs

Cameron urges UK to unite to stop Scottish independence

Cameron urges UK to unite to stop Scottish independence

British Prime Minister David Cameron will urge people in all parts of the United Kingdom on Friday to try to persuade Scots to vote 'no' in their referendum on independence, AFP reports. February 7 2014, 11:23 2 100 просмотрs

New York concert defies Putin on eve of Sochi

New York concert defies Putin on eve of Sochi

Six members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot on Thursday accused their previously imprisoned bandmates of undermining the group's ideals by appearing at a charity concert introduced by Madonna, newsyahoo.com reports. February 6 2014, 18:13 1 551 просмотрs

US warships sail to Black Sea before Olympic Games begin

US warships sail to Black Sea before Olympic Games begin

The first of two American warships heading to the Black Sea in advance of the Olympic Games has set sail from Italy, U.S. officials confirmed to fox news. February 6 2014, 12:18 1 813 просмотрs

Female Death Row Inmate: Sue Basso

Female Death Row Inmate: Sue Basso

Suzanne Basso and six codefendants were convicted of brutally torturing and murdering a retarded, Caucasian male. Sue Basso was convicted on September 1, 1999 and is currently on death row, yahoo.com reports. February 6 2014, 12:02 4 015 просмотрs

Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga’s 'incredible story': Official says fishy tale may be too good to be true

Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga’s 'incredible story': Official says fishy tale may be too good to be true

The story of the castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga almost seems too good to be true – and a Marshall Islands official has lent his weight to naysayers by saying he “may have some doubts” that the survivor really spent more than 13 months adrift at sea, independent.co.uk reports. February 5 2014, 17:03 2 835 просмотрs