‘If I wasn’t a model, I’d be a boxer’ – supermodel Adriana Lima
There perhaps couldn’t be any two professions more diametrically opposite to each other than supermodel and professional boxer.
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There perhaps couldn’t be any two professions more diametrically opposite to each other than supermodel and professional boxer.
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The president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, believes chess should be made an obligatory part of the national curriculum in Russian elementary schools.
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A social media campaign to recruit foster parents for child asylum seekers was derailed after it attracted racist abuse and extreme anti-immigrant comments.
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The US space agency and a team of scientists, including Stephen Hawking, is developing a nano-starship made from a single silicon chip that can travel one-fifth the speed of light.
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UK drones are to be equipped with the much-vaunted Brimstone missiles which were used to justify involvement in Syria but then barely used, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.
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President-elect Donald Trump shrugged off reports citing anonymous CIA officials accusing Russia of hacking the US presidential election, a day after calling the story “ridiculous” on TV.
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American Mixed Martial Arts fighter Andrew ‘The Beast’ Whitney was waiting for the fight result to be announced, fully confident in his victory – but the outcome was just the opposite. What happened after that can be seen in the shocking post-fight video.
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Donald Trump again tested the strength of US-Chinese relations when he questioned the ‘One China’ policy in a discussion of Taiwan. A government-run newspaper in Beijing again responded with a scathing editorial stressing Trump’s diplomatic inexperience.
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British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has turned down former-Prime Minister Tony Blair’s bid for extra resources as his total cost to the taxpayer hits almost £3 million a year, it has been reported.
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An almost-perfect dinosaur skeleton has sold at a French auction house for more than €1 million to an unnamed buyer.
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CNN is in hot water with some of its Ghanaian audience, who have accused the news channel of over egging economic challenges in the African nation by describing it as a place where people “struggle to obtain food and day-to-day services.”
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Payouts over the abuse and detention of Iraqi nationals by the British military adding up to more than £22 million (US$27.5 million) are now under fire after details were obtained by the press.
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A march in Poland to commemorate a battle between Poles and Ukrainians in 1918 was marred by anti-Ukrainian slogans, one of which demanded that the city of Lvov in western Ukraine be returned to the Poles. Kiev wants an investigation.
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The poverty charity Oxfam has described Ireland as one of the worst corporate tax shelters in the world. The report slams Ireland for not having adequate rules to prevent corporate tax dodging and for widely facilitating large-scale corporate tax avoidance.
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Most Russian citizens have a general understanding of their country’s Constitution, but only about a third think it contributes to maintaining order, according to a recent poll.
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Oxford University students are being urged to use gender-neutral pronouns such as ‘ze’ rather than ‘he’ or ‘she’ in an attempt to reduce the risk of offending transgender people.
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Britain’s Defense Minister Michael Fallon said that Russia is a strategic competitor to the West and hence should not be treated equally. Fallon noted that there is still a need for the de-escalation of tensions, but there can be “no business as usual.”
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Nearly 500 people have died because they were “unable to bear the death” of one of India’s most powerful politicians, Jayalalithaa, her party said. However many people are questioning the claim.
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