After 1,000-year split, pope and Russian patriarch embrace in Cuba
HAVANA (Reuters) - Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill embraced and kissed on Friday in a historic meeting, uniting to issue a global...
More than 5,000 pregnant women in Colombia have Zika virus
According to a Reuters report, more than 5,000 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country’s national health institute said...
Jamaica PM threatens to sue JLP leader for defamation
Media houses in Jamaica are reporting that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has given leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Andrew Holness until...
Scientists investigate suspected meteorite death in India
...if confirmed, this would be the first recorded death by falling space debris in nearly 200 years
By Sandhya Ravishankar
(REUTERS) - Indian scientists are investigating...
Over 58,000 children ‘face death’ in drought-hit Somalia
More than 58,000 children in drought-hit Somalia will starve to death if they do not receive urgent support, the UN has warned.
The situation in...
Russian lawyers to debate whether tiger and goat actually promoted ‘gay propaganda’ Read...
Lawyers in Russia have actually started debating whether a goat/tiger friendship at a zoo was a piece of gay propaganda.
There wasn’t any guy-on-guy action and...
North Korea rocket launch: UN Security Council to have emergency talks
(BBC) - The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting later following North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket earlier today.
The meeting...
U.S. election: Trump dealt blow by Cruz in Iowa vote
(BBC) Texas Senator Ted Cruz has won the Iowa Republican caucuses, the first vote to choose U.S. presidential candidates.
"Tonight is a victory for courageous...
World’s ‘top chef’ Benoit Violier found dead in apparent suicide, police say
According to a report published by CNN today, Chef Benoit Violier, whose Swiss restaurant was crowned the best in the world last month, has...
‘She’s getting violent’: Miami doctor suspended after attack on Uber driver
By Lindsey Bever
A Florida doctor (who is reported to have Guyanese roots) has been put on administrative leave after the emergence of a video...
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