Agra, Sep 25 (IANS) A step-mother was arrested after she admitted to burying her six-year-old daughter in Pachchim puri area here late Wednesday, police said. Devi temple priest Budh vilas Tiwari lodged a police complaint at the Sikandra police station Monday after his six-year-old daughter Subiksha went missing from their home. During the investigation, his second […]
Los Angeles, Sep 25 (IANS) A woman intruder wandered into actor Keanu Reeves’ home and stripped off for a dive in his pool. According to tmz.com, the intruder walked into the “Speed” star’s estate after a cleaning company left the front gate open. The incident happened last week and just two days after the 50-year-old actor […]
The Hague, Sep 25 (IANS) The Dutch government Wednesday said that it will send a military mission to fight the Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical group in Iraq. “The Dutch contribution to the international mission is aimed at breaking the military strength and advance of IS,” Xinhua quoted a cabinet letter as saying. “Netherlands will deploy […]
Geneva, Sep 25 (IANS/EFE) The situation of more than 2 million people trapped in conflict zones in Iraq is “desperate and alarming”, but their plight is not attracting the international concern that it should, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) director general Bruno Jochum said Wednesday. The problem is that the crisis is being addressed in geopolitical terms […]
London, Sep 25 (IANS) Singer Rita Ora will reportedly replace Kylie Minogue on the fourth season of “The Voice UK”. The competitive reality series, which will premiere in January, will see Ora joining coaches Ricky Wilson, Tom Jones and Will.i.am, reports eonline.com. “So excited to be part of; and for my team to win ‘The Voice’ […]
Paris, Sep 25 (IANS) French President Francois Hollande confirmed Wednesday the death of a French man abducted in Algeria by a group linked to Islamic State (IS) Sunni radical militants. At an UN General Assembly meeting in New York, Hollande affirmed that Herve Gourde, 55, seized by the Jund al-Khilafah group, was “cowardly and cruelly murdered”, […]
Los Angeles, Sep 25 (IANS) Actor Robert Pattinson has “fallen hard” for British singer FKA Twigs and friends say he is as serious about her as he was about his ex-girlfriend Kristen Stewart. The “Twilight Saga” star, who dated Stewart for five years until last summer, became “instant friends” with Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah […]
Washington, Sep 25 (IANS/EFE) More than six weeks after a white police officer shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown, protesters again poured into the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, overnight, with acts of vandalism and at least two arrests taking place, media reported. A fire destroyed a memorial to the unarmed 18-year-old black man killed by […]
The Hague, Sep 25 (IANS) As many as 1,027 people were arrested in a large-scale police operation against drug and human traffickers across Europe this month, the Hague-based European police organisation Europol announced Wednesday. Law enforcement officers from 34 countries took part in the largest-ever coordinated operation against organised crime in the European Union (EU), Xinhua […]
Los Angeles, Sep 25 (IANS) Rapper Kanye West “doesn’t care” about his Grammy Award trophies. The 37-year-old, who has picked up 21 of the coveted trophies, uses the prizes as “reference points” to “prove” his talents. He revealed this at Los Angeles Trade Technical College during a guest talk, Friday, that he and also spoke of […]