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John Whittingdale: Culture Secretary admits having relationship with prostitute

Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has disclosed that he had a relationship with a prostitute. Mr Whittingdale, who is single, said in a statement that he had been unaware of the woman's occupation and had broken off the relationship when he discovered she was trying to sell the story to the press. The relationship occurred before he became a minister although he was chairman

File - Dr. Stephen Hawking, a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, delivers a speech entitled "Why we should go into space" during a lecture that is part of a series honoring NASA's 50th Anniversary, Monday, April 21, 2008, at George Washington University's Morton Auditorium in Washington.

Entrepreneur Announces Plans To Send 'Nanocraft' To Alpha Centauri

Billionaire Yuri Milner plans to create a fleet of tiny spaceships called “nanocraft” in his personal quest to find alien life in the universe, the Silicon Valley businessman announced Tuesday as he was joined by Stephen Hawking, The Inquisitr reports. Milner, who has already spent $100 million of his own private fortune to expand the search for extraterrestrial intelligence’s

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Eurozone crisis 'pushing migrants to UK'

The Eurozone jobs crisis is encouraging more southern European migrants to head to the UK to join those from the east, the Migration Observatory has said. Over the past five years the number of EU nationals living in the UK has gone up by almost 700,000 to 3.3 million. The report said 49% of the 700,000 were from Poland and Romania, but Spain, Italy and Portugal accounted for

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Trump threatened to sue the AP over Panama condo story

Though his political opponents often express doubts about the authenticity of Donald Trump’s political views, there’ll be no wondering whether the real-estate mogul is sincere about his aim to “open up” the country’s libel laws. First off, he loves to complain in public about allegedly “unfair” treatment by media organizations. Second

South Korean President Park Guen-hye speaks at the Climate Summit at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014.

South Korean Voters Expected To Give Ruling Party Big Majority In National Assembly

South Koreans on Wednesday were voting in a parliamentary election that many predict will hand President Park Geun-hye's conservative party a decisive win, despite frustrations over a sluggish economy, The Associated Press reports. If the vote allows the ruling Saenuri Party to comfortably regain its majority over a divided opposition, as pollsters predict, it raises

Amsterdam's Schiphol airport partly evacuated in security alert

Netherlands police detain one man after part of the transport hub was cordoned off for four hours

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (24) walks off the court after their 106-90 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 of their NBA basketball Western Conference semifinal playoff series, Monday, May 21, 2012, in Oklahoma City.

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Kobe Bryant says farewell after 20 years with the LA Lakers

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant is down to one last shot, and everybody knows he's going to take it. After two decades spent dazzling the world, Bryant will end his basketball career at home with the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night. He'll walk off the court in front of his devoted fans in the building where he hung five championship banners. He retires this

The lethal injection room at San Quentin State Prison

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Georgia executes man who killed neighbour during 1996 burglary

JACKSON, Ga. -- A man convicted of killing his neighbour during a burglary in 1996 on Tuesday became the fourth person put to death in Georgia this year. Kenneth Fults was executed by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. Warden Bruce Chatman told witnesses the time of death was 7:37 p.m. The 47-year-old inmate had pleaded guilty to killing

The great escape: Inky the octopus legs it to freedom from New Zealand aquarium

Staff believe the common New Zealand octopus fled its enclosure when the lid was left ajar and headed to freedom down a pipe that leads to the sea

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks to teachers and students during an event at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, April 12, 2016.

Brazil’s Rousseff decries conspiracy as impeachment advances

BRASILIA: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday her vice president was orchestrating a conspiracy to topple her, as efforts to impeach the leftist leader gained momentum in Congress. Aided by her mentor and predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Rousseff scrambled to secure enough support from a dwindling array of allies to block impeachment in a lower house vote

Panama Papers: Organized crime prosecutors raid Mossack Fonseca firm office

Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients. Soon after news reports based on a trove of documents from the firm began emerging more than a week ago, Panama's government

Amnesty urges probe over ‘mass burials’ of Shias by Nigeria army

KADUNA (Nigeria): Claims by a Kaduna state official that Nigeria's military secretly buried 347 people after clashes with members of a minority Shia Muslim sect should be investigated and anyone suspected of wrongdoing put on trial, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. The official on Monday told an inquiry into the December

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak delivers his speech during a special announcement on the budget revision at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016.

Swiss widen corruption investigation into Malaysia's 1MDB fund

The state-owned fund is linked to PM Najib Razak, with two suspects indicted over an alleged phony bond deal

File - U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky, left, the commander of Combined Joint Task Force Land Component Command - Operation Inherent Resolve, and a French soldier peer out of a guard tower at Camp Monsabert, Iraq, March 24, 2016.

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'Iraq may soon reach a point beyond repair'

Without a coherent strategy to address the urgent needs of displaced Iraqis, the opportunity to rebuild parts of the country liberated from ISIL may be lost, a new report has warned. The report from the Minority Rights Group International and the Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights, released on Wednesday, highlights the dire situation facing millions of Iraqis amid the

An Indian Paramilitary trooper stops a vehicle during restrictions in the old part of Srinagar on Wednesday 13, April 2016. Kashmir Valley is witnessing a complete shutdown to protest against the killings of three people in shootings by security forces at Handwara in Kupwara district.

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Kashmir curfew after protesters die

A curfew is imposed in parts of Indian-administered Kashmir, a day after three protesters were killed allegedly in firing by the army. ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa speaks during a town hall meeting at the Ocheyedan Senior Center, Monday, March 28, 2016, in Ocheyedan, Iowa.

Iowa Eatery Changes Menu, Tells Chuck Grassley: #DoYourJob On Garland Nomination

A Des Moines eatery is having a little fun at the expense of long-time Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley – chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee – over his refusal to hold hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, Raw Story reported Tuesday. Despite polls showing 58 percent of general election voters in Iowa saying they would be less likely to vote for

In this Sept. 23, 2012, file photo, a Free Syrian Army soldier stands on a damaged Syrian military tank in front of a damaged mosque, which were destroyed during fighting with government forces, in the Syrian town of Azaz, on the outskirts of Aleppo.

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Syria fighting threatens peace talks

The UN is to convene a new round of indirect talks in Geneva aimed at ending the war in Syria, as fighting in Aleppo province threatens a fragile truce. ...

[VIDEO] Montreal Orchestra Replaces Stolen Violin For Homeless Man

Passengers traveling the Montreal Metro Transit system may have noticed the metro station was a bit quieter than usual on Monday, the Atlanta Journal reported. Part of the blame for the quiescence had to do with someone stealing the beloved violin of Mark Landry, a homeless man who is often heard playing in the system stations. According to a report by the Canadian Broadcast

This file image obtained by The Associated Press shows Cpl. Charles A. Graner Jr. appearing to punch one of several handcuffed detainees lying on the floor in late 2003 at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

Torture Is Never Forgotten, Neither Should It Be

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling “Anyone who has been tortured remains tortured” wrote Holocaust survivor Primo Levi in “The Drowned and The Saved.” What‘s more, he knew all too well that in the shadowy, bureaucratic, and dehumanizing places like Auschwitz, “Anyone who has suffered torture never again will be able to be at ease in the world,” and “the abomination

Bible in Lisu script (Fraser alphabet). Manuscripts / writing systems in the Yunnan Nationalities Museum, Kunming, Yunnan, China.

New Study Suggests Bible Could Have Been Written Earlier Than Previously Thought

A new study has revealed that literacy may have been higher than previously believed in Israel in the sixth century, suggesting that the first five books of the Bible may have been written earlier than some scholars belived, Time Magazine reports. In findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, researchers from Tel Aviv University looked

South Korea's Ruling Party Loses Assembly Minority In Upset Vote

Argentine Ex-president Denounces Political Persecution

Strong Earthquake Strikes Northern Myanmar

Law Shields Fundamentalist Sects That Refuse To Allow Medical Treatment For Children

Germanwings plane crash: Families of victims sue U.S. flight school

Chibok parents' unremitting distress

USS Donald Cook reports ‘simulated attack’ by Russian jets

Libya migrant build-up alarms EU