The union for performers with the Radio City Rockettes says full-time dancers will be "obligated" to work the presidential inauguration despite some protest. The decision sparked debate over conflicts between an employee's obligations and their views.
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Immigrant pupils do well at school because their parents are more ambitious for them than British mothers and fathers, the outgoing chief inspector of schools says.
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Two army veterans who served in the Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland say investigations into the 1972 killing of a senior IRA figure are a “betrayal” and a “disgrace.”
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A group of Russian MPs has prepared a bill that would impose fines on those that deface public art objects or disrupt cultural events, such as concerts and exhibitions.
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A zoo employee in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia was hospitalized with severe bites after he entered the enclosure of a lioness in order to pet her. Unfortunately, the drunken man’s desire to cuddle with the big kitty ended abruptly when she attacked him.
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Allegations of personal involvement in the Democrats’ electoral defeats in the US, the threat of a nuclear arms race, and the potential for a Syria ceasefire – all of these were among the issues that came up at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual media conference.
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The Polish driver whose truck was hijacked in the terrorist attack that left 12 people dead in Berlin on Monday has been hailed as a hero. A campaign is gathering momentum to award the man the Order of Merit, Germany’s highest decoration.
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The Russian parliament is preparing a message to other parliaments around the world, calling on them to officially recognize any “information support” of terrorism, such as justifying their actions in the media, as “passive terrorism.”
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Anis Amri, a Tunisian national wanted throughout Europe after the truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, was killed by the Italian Police during a shootout in Milan, the country’s interior minister has confirmed.
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Shares of Deutsche Bank gained over two percent after the German bank reached an agreement with the US government over mortgage-backed securities sales. The $7.2 billion penalty is far lower that the $14 billion the US had initially demanded.
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The Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva must pay over $520 million following corruption charges made by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The company breached the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing officials in Russia, Ukraine and Mexico.
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US President-elect Donald Trump signalled that he might dump the controversial F-35 program after asking Boeing to cost up its cheaper and older F-18 Super Hornet jets.
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The 54,000 residents of Augsburg, Bavaria, will not spend Christmas at home, but as evacuees, while sappers defuse an unexploded 1.8-ton bomb dropped by the British in WWII. It will be the biggest evacuation in post-war German history.
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca’s corruption trial ended after jurors said they were deadlocked when all but one were in favor of acquittal. The judge declared a mistrial, and now Baca is free pending the prosecution’s decision to retry him.
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Most Secret Santas end in disappointment with the mystery gift turning out to be nothing more than yet another coffee mug. But two users on Reddit got very lucky when their gift-givers turned out to be none other than Bill Gates and Snoop Dogg.
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A woman who was captured on camera spouting racist abuse at Latino shoppers – a video that went viral – has been banned from Jefferson Mall in Louisville, Kentucky.
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German authorities have arrested two brothers from Kosovo on suspicion of planning an attack on a shopping centre in Northwest Germany, police have revealed.
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A Chicago man has made an unusual move to combat racism, cozying up to the Ku Klux Klan in order to change its members views on other races.
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A 73-year-old private investigator shot a 13-year-old boy in what he claims was an attempted carjacking in Baltimore. The teen is in a critical condition after allegedly approaching the investigator’s car, brandishing a realistic-looking toy gun.
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An intoxicated driver crashed through the doors of an airport terminal building during a desperate attempt to shake off police following a high-speed chase in Kazan. The 40-year-old man was eventually apprehended and sentenced to 15 days in jail.
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Kern County earned itself the dubious honor of being home to the two most lethal police departments in the country. Now, California Attorney General Kamala Harris is opening a non-criminal investigation into them.
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Islamic State terrorists have released a video which purportedly shows two captured Turkish soldiers being burned alive in Aleppo province, Syria. Jihadists said it was a revenge for Ankara’s involvement in a "war against Muslims".
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At least 150 death row inmates in Florida will need to be resentenced after the state’s supreme court ruled that they had been convicted under unconstitutional laws.
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Does a 70-year-old billionaire businessman griping about regulations and confiscatory taxation sound familiar? In a real-life bizarro twist, it’s not President-elect Donald Trump, but a Chinese tycoon outsourcing thousands of jobs from his home country to the US.
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