Category: News

An Italian court has told actress Ornella Muti that she could go to jail if she fails to pay damages after being convicted of forging a doctor’s note so she could attend a charity dinner alongside Vladimir Putin. Muti was due to perform on stage for three nights in December 2010 but called in sick […]

Popular photo and video-sharing social network Instagram is suffering widespread service outage according to thousands of reports from users all across the globe who are unable to access their feeds or upload posts and stories. Roughly two-thirds of bug reports pointed out that the mobile app was not loading, showing an error page that reads […]

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is no stranger to stirring controversy and has again found itself at the center of an online storm after publishing a graphic cover cartoon to mark the FIFA Women’s World Cup. The FIFA showpiece kicked off in France last Friday, and is seen as a defining moment for the women’s […]

Jessica Biel has come out against a controversial vaccination bill in California, sparking a social media frenzy, but the actress says that she isn’t an ‘anti-vaxxer.” The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Biel was “coming out as an anti-vaxxer” after she appeared at the California State Assembly on Tuesday with prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F […]

India has announced that it is ready to launch its Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft to the Moon in just one month, and become the fourth nation after the US, USSR, and China to carry out a lunar mission. The Chandrayaan 2, a domestically-built spacecraft which will have an orbiter, a lander, and a rover, is set […]

When the Copa America starts this weekend, Lionel Messi will face the familiar burden of carrying the weight of a nation’s hopes and expectations on his shoulders. Argentina’s chances will again largely rest on the genius in the number 10 shirt; invested in him will be his country’s dreams of ending a 26-year wait for […]

If Boris Johnson, the favorite to succeed Theresa May, suspends the UK parliament in order to ram through a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, then British lawmakers “will bring him down,” fellow Tory leadership contender Rory Stewart has warned. In an interview with Sky News, Stewart was asked to respond to suggestions that Johnson, the former foreign secretary, […]

Julian Assange’s extradition to the US would be a deathblow for all truth seekers, George Galloway told RT, warning that anyone who fails to support Assange will one day share the same fate as the persecuted Wikileaks co-founder. Britain’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed on Thursday that he had signed a request for the extradition […]

The UK has published its annual human rights report, but with some notable omissions in its section on Yemen’s war – namely the identity of the country bombing its civilians, and the UK’s own involvement in the conflict. The 2018 “Human Rights & Democracy”report from the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) includes an almost […]

As Western powers that once colonized Africa find themselves drawn back to the continent over its vast mineral riches, what can they do to divert attention? Why, blame Russia, of course! Enter the Guardian, flogging – but not actually showing – alleged documents purporting to show the Kremlin plotting and scheming in Africa, involving none […]