Maya Angelou who rose from segregation, poverty and the severest of childhoods in order to become a force on screen, stage and the printed page has died at the age of 86. A statement issued by Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina confirmed her death. This is where she had served as a professor of American Studies since 1982. ... Read More »
New York, USA a man by the name of Noor Hussein beat his wife to death with a stick for making him the wrong dinner. The 75-year-old believed he had the right to discipline 66-year-old, Nazar at their apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Prosecutors claim he murdered her because she made the mistake of cooking him a vegetarian meal of ... Read More »
Chinese television aired incredible footage of a street vendor who caught a baby the moment he fell from a second-storey window ledge, in Southern China during a thunderstorm. Apparently, the infant wandered out searching for his mother. The vendor, who is named Mr Li, saw what was happening and immediately ran over to catch the baby, then reunited him with ... Read More »
A woman who was abducted a decade ago says she often thought about escaping, but was scared of her abductor. She told KABC-TV, “I was very afraid about everything because I was alone.” She has not been identified and was abducted by a man who she claimed forced her to marry him and fathers her child. She now says she ... Read More »
Rainer Schimpf was just metres away from being swallowed by a 40 tonne whale. This happened whilst he was filming the yearly sardine run of the coast of South Africa. The tour operator was out with his wife, Silke and guests. Silke managed to take a picture as the whale was just yards away from her husband. The 15 metre ... Read More »
Pakistan’s prime minister has recently become the victim of his own push against those defaulting utility bills, after gas was cut off from his own residence. It was found that Mr.Sharif had arrears of £28000 which resulted on the gas being cut off from his own residence. A spokesman for Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited said the prime minister’s residence ... Read More »
Mr Hennadiy Kernes, mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has been shot and critically wounded as unrest continues to grow in the region. He was shot in the back by unknown gunmen as he was out jogging. Presently he is undergoing emergency surgery in a fight for his life. Mr Kernes was a supporter of the former pro-Moscow President Viktor ... Read More »
As of today Barak Obama became the first US president to have visited Malaysia in almost 50 years. Following on from his stops in Japan and South Korea, Obama arrived at the Royal Malaysian Air Base, for the economic and security talks. After arriving to a red carpet greeting Obama was whisked away on a limousine to Kuala Lumpur’s Parliament ... Read More »
The Sewol, a sunken South Korean ferry, has been recovered. Yet the news brings great sadness with it as divers have found 48 bodies inside a single dorm room, only meant to accommodate 38 people. A South Korean Navy officer said, the bodies found were all cramped together and wearing life jackets. A approximate 183 bodies have been recovered from ... Read More »
The U.S. President was granted an audience with the Japanese Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace at the start of Obama’s Asia tour. The much taller U.S. leader towered above the Japanese head of state. At the Imperial in Tokyo Palace Obama was greeted by school children and a guard of honour. As part of the day’s engagements Obama played ... Read More »
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