The results of last week's British general election won by the David Cameron-led Conservative Party confounded the political pundits, public opinion pollsters and experienced politicians in all parties. The Conservatives won 331 seats, the equivalent of 51 per cent of the seats in the House of...
[caption id="attachment_5316" align="alignleft" width="300"] Rihanna’s epic fashion fail came in the form of a dazzling canary yellow robe (?), cape (?) or coat (?) with a circular yellow train that all but covered the red carpet at the US$25,000-a-ticket gala.[/caption] NEW YORK, United States, Thursday May...
[caption id="attachment_5292" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev[/caption] Jurors deciding the fate of convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will hear from more witnesses on Thursday picked by defense attorneys pressing their case the 21-year old should be spared execution because he was influenced by his radicalized older brother. Tsarnaev...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held on to his job, announcing that he had hammered together a new coalition government just ahead of a midnight legal deadline. But with a knife-edge majority of just one seat in the 120-member parliament expectations were that he would have...
Washington (AFP) - The United States authorized commercial ferry services to Cuba for the first time in more than a half-century on Tuesday, another major step in improving relations between the two countries. In what was hailed by ferry operators as "a historical event," the US...