Putin critic Alexei Navalny LOSES appeal against nearly three year jail term as Moscow judge defies calls from Europe’s top human right’s court to free him immediately Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 44, was arrested in January this year Judge Dmitry Balashov rejected Navalny’s appeal of the February 2 ruling He will now be imprisoned … Read more
He was the wartime Prime Minister regarded by many to be the greatest Briton who ever lived. Sir Winston Churchill’s leadership during the fight against Nazi Germany was symbolised by the indomitable spirit he championed in his numerous speeches to the British public. But far from the symbol of strength which he represents, a new … Read more
Newly released US intelligence files show how close the Soviet Union came to launching a nuclear attack during a NATO weapons exercise in 1983. The Communist bloc put fighter bombers strapped with nuclear bombs on high alert in East Germany during a ‘war scare’ prompted by NATO’s Able Archer command exercise in November 1983. Soviet … Read more
An Iranian judo world champion has been pictured posing with his Israeli rival as he is competing in an international contest in Tel Aviv against the wishes of Tehran. Saeid Mollaei defected to Germany after he disobeyed a direct order from Iran‘s minister to withdraw from the 2019 Judo World Championships in Japan to avoid … Read more
German prince who is a distant cousin of the Queen sues his ‘ungrateful’ son for selling run-down family castle he’d inherited to the government for ONE EURO Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, is suing his son for ‘going behind his back’ He transferred Marienburg and Calenburg estate to his heir in mid-2000s Two years ago, … Read more
House of Hanover goes to war with itself as distant cousin of the Queen sues his own son over estate Ernst August, prince of Hanover (66) is suing his son, also Ernst August (37) The father gave his son Marienburg castle, a mansion and the nearby estate But after struggling with the upkeep, the son all … Read more
The US is the second-most surveilled country in the world after China, with one camera for every five people in major cities. A new report found that bigger US cities had an average of over 112,000 CCTV cameras, or about 2,200 for every 10,000 people. That was still dwarfed by China, which had 15,880,491 CCTV … Read more
North America’s megafauna — giant animals such as woolly mammoths and bear-sized beavers — were driven to extinction by a near-glacial climate, a study claimed. Researchers from Germany used a new statistical method to estimate the changing population sizes of the giant animals from the radiocarbon record. They found that megafauna numbers responded to climatic shifts, and they … Read more
City mice are SMARTER than their country cousins! Rodents in urban areas are better at problem solving as they’ve had to adapt to living alongside humans, study reveals Thirty-one striped field mice were captured from the wild as part of the study Scientists gave them a set of challenges in a cage where they had … Read more
Duden (pictured), which is similar to the Oxford English Dictionary, has scrapped the masculine form of nouns to be used to describe whole professions [Stock image] Germany‘s most influential dictionary has stirred debate by issuing guidance to make the language more gender neutral. Duden, which is similar to the Oxford English Dictionary, has scrapped the … Read more