Fashion designer Thiery Mugler passed away
January 24, 2022
French fashion designer Thierry Mugler has died aged 73. In the 80s and 90s he was one of the most successful designers worldwide and contemporary stars such as Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé and Lady Gaga also wear his creations.
Mugler’s death was announced on his Instagram account. A completely black image reads: “It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Manfred Thierry Mugler on Sunday, January 23, 2022. Rest Read more
Stowaway in plane wheel survives after flying more than 11 hours
January 24, 2022
Dutch authorities discovered a stowaway hiding in the nose wheel of a cargo plane when it landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport Sunday morning.
Dutch police say they found a man alive in the front wheel section of a plane – called a wheel well – that landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport from South Africa.
Royal Dutch Military Police spokeswoman Read more
Nino Cerruti : Italian fashion great dies at 91
January 17, 2022
The Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur Nino Cerruti died in the hospital in Vercelli, where he was hospitalized for hip surgery. He was 91 years old, Italian media reported. Descendant of a family of textile industrialists from Biella, he was one of the great protagonists of fashion of the last century and is credited with revolutionising men’s ready-t-wear fashion in the 1960s. He also gave designer Giorgio Armani his first fashion break. Later Read more
The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder
January 11, 2022
A California jury found Holmes guilty of conspiring to defraud investors in her blood-testing startup. The 37-year-old was convicted on four of 11 counts. Holmes was acquitted on four counts and the jury could not reach a decision on three counts.
The verdict comes after a stunning downfall that saw Holmes, once hailed as the next Steve Jobs, go from being a tech industry icon Read more
Bachelor uses billboard campaign to advertise his search for a wife
January 6, 2022
A bachelor is using huge billboards with tongue-in-cheek messages in his quest for a wife. Muhammad Malik, 29, is alerting prospective partners to his availability with ads in London and Birmingham.
The 29-year-old entrepreneur can be seen smiling as he jokingly asks to be “saved” from an arranged marriage in billboards that have popped up across the city and in Read more
Man who killed wife using Cobra gets rare double life sentence
October 22, 2021
Soraaj S. Kumar, a 28-year-old man from Kerala, India, has been found guilty of murdering his wife with a venomous cobra.
On Monday last week, Sooraj Kumar was found guilty of committing “snake homicide” against his wife, Uthra, on May 7, 2020. The 25-year-old died in her sleep at her parents’ house, where the couple had been staying with their young child. She was found lying Read more
Robots patrol the streets of Singapore on police duty
October 10, 2021
Singapore has taken the next step in technology-based policing. The AI-powered robots patrol the streets of Singapore on police duty, ready to issue warnings or advice to those behaving indecently.
Tasked with catching petty criminals, the robot is a ground patrol policeman and roams the streets of major city districts looking for undesirable behavior. During a three-week test in September, two Read more
Man sues psychic who ‘promised to remove ex-girlfriend curse’
October 6, 2021
A US man is suing a psychic who he says falsely claimed she could remove a curse put on his marriage by a witch hired by his ex-girlfriend.
Mauro Restrepo, from California, claims the clairvoyant had promised he would be happy again if he paid her $5,100 to exorcise the spell.
But after handing over a down payment, Mr Restrepo said he saw no improvement in his fortunes, according to Read more
Princess Mako set to marry former classmate leaving the royal dignity
October 2, 2021
Japan’s Princess Mako will marry her former college classmate, Kei Komuro, on October 26, the Imperial Household Agency announced on Friday.
The couple were initially set to wed in 2018, but this was put off, reportedly after accounts that Mr Komuro’s family had run into financial difficulties.
They are expected to move to the US – where Mr Komuro works as a lawyer – after marriage. Their movements have Read more
World’s biggest triceratops skeleton goes on sale
September 7, 2021
Auctioneers in Paris will seek to sell in October the world’s biggest skeleton of a 66-million-year-old giant triceratops fossil that is estimated to rake in between 1.2 to 1.5 million euros ($1.4-$1.8 million) at auction on October 21 at the Drouot auction house in Paris.
The triceratops was among the most distinctive dinosaurs due to the three horns on its head – one at the nose and Read more
First group of Saudi Arabia’s women soldiers graduates
September 3, 2021
Saudi Arabia’s first group of women soldiers graduated from the Armed Forces Women’s Cadre Training Centre this week after completing 14 weeks of basic training that began on May 30, the first time in the kingdom’s history.
“The centre [for female military training] has an important mission, which focuses on providing excellent training programmes and curricula and an ideal learning environment,” Adel Al-Balawi, the Read more
Poisonous snake died from human bite
August 15, 2021
Snake bites man, he bites back and kills it in an odd case of ‘revenge
A 45-year-old man was bitten by a poisonous snake on his way back from work in a paddy field. He was able to catch the snake even after biting. After getting angry he bit the snake repeatedly till it died. The incident took place recently in Odisha, India.
Kishore Badra, from Gambharipatia village in Jajpur district in eastern India’s Odisha state, was bitten by a Read more
Qatar has the most efficient govt in the world: study
July 19, 2015
It is an autocracy where women are discriminated against, migrant workers are exploited and free speech is curtailed. But according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), Qatar is a model of efficient government.
The oil-rich Gulf state, which is currently at the centre of a major Swiss corruption investigation into Fifa’s decision to award it the 2022 football World Cup, finished top of a league table compiled Read more
Four-yr-old found alone in desert
February 19, 2014
A heartbreaking picture has emerged of a little boy wandering in the desert, separated from his family while fleeing war-torn Syria.
Marwan, 4, was found by UN workers near the border of Jordan and Syria, lagging behind his relatives.
The boy was photographed carrying a plastic bag full of his possessions on Monday by Andrew Harper, Read more
Dip in icy water to purify souls!
January 21, 2014
Hundreds of Russian Orthodox Christians have plunged into icy water around Eastern Europe to mark the feast of Epiphany.
In temperatures as low as -17C, the believers wore little more than basic swimming costumes as they leapt into lakes and plunge pools to confirm
their willingness to follow Jesus.
With snow piled high around Read more
Vatican Cricket Team Wants To Play At Lord’s
October 23, 2013
The Vatican has started a cricket club in an attempt to forge better
relations with other faiths.
About 300 catholic priests and students at colleges attached to the Holy See, most of whom come from the Indian sub-continent, antipodes and the West Indies, have signed up to play.
At a launch event on Read more
‘Halal Sex Shop’ launched in Turkey
October 22, 2013
‘Halal Sex Shop’ website is first in a predominantly Muslim country
Ankara: An online ‘Halal Sex Shop’ selling condoms, massage oils and perfumes has been launched in Turkey, becoming
the first of its kind in the country.
The website presents its products as being “entirely safe,” and in compliance with Islamic norms. Internet users who enter the site find two different links directing them to separate Read more
Mr Incredibeard
September 27, 2013
If you suffer from pogonophobia (a fear of beards) then look away now.
A man from San Francisco is breaking the boundaries of facial hair fashion and gravity with his fantastical beard styles.
Self-confessed beard enthusiast Isaiah Webb has been sharing photos of his ‘beard dos’ online, posting a different style on his Instagram profile every Monday or ‘Monbeardday’. Read more
Hitler’s deputy ‘murdered by UK agents’ to gag secrets
September 8, 2013
Scotland Yard was given the names of British agents who allegedly murdered the Nazi Rudolf Hess in the infamous Spandau Prison but was advised by prosecutors not to pursue its investigations,
according to a newly-released police report.
Written two years after Hess’s death in 1987, the classified document outlines a highly-sensitive inquiry Read more
Austrian going to jump from space
October 7, 2012
For 23 miles up on the edge of space, and wearing only a pressurised suit and a parachute, Felix Baumgartner will pause at the hatch of his tiny capsule as it ascends into the heavens beneath one of the biggest balloons ever made.
The sponsor Red Bull Stratos announced on Friday that the jump by extreme athlete Baumgartner, 43, have been moved from Monday to Tuesday. The jump can only be made Read more
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