World

A gambling man from Uttar Pradesh, India, lost his wife after she was put at stake in an Indian Premier League (IPL) betting game. The matter came to light after the wife started getting harassed […]

Three separate shipwrecks in the Mediterranean in the last week are thought to have claimed the lives of more than 700 people who were trying to reach Europe, according to the UN’s refuge agency. The […]

The parents of a missing seven-year-old boy have admitted to police that the child was abandoned in bear infested mountains in northern Japan, as a “punishment.” The seven-year-old boy has been missing for two days. […]

Dozens of young college students who were caught dancing, celebrating and drinking alcohol at a mixed graduation party, were flogged by the “morality police” force in Iran. More than 30 students were arrested, interrogated and lashed […]

Demonstrators in France clashed with police during labor reform protests. Video shows a policeman dressed in riot gear assaulting an unarmed woman. Following a verbal provocation, a Toulouse policeman attacks a woman demonstrator by grabbing […]

Hanako, the “loneliest elephant in the world” has died at a small zoo in Tokyo. She was the oldest elephant in Japan and had lived alone at the zoo for 67 years. Hanako’s health deteriorated […]

Today in Poland there are 80,000 militiamen training for a possible war with Russia. Believing an imminent Russian invasion is likely, Poles are living in the grip of paranoia over their historic enemy. Yet it […]

The Venezuela government has effectively shut down for business, with citizens saying that people are being left hungry, without electricity and without any type of law and order.  In the last few weeks the government have […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given the green light for the 2016 Rio Olympics to go ahead, despite the high risk the Zika virus outbreak poses to visitors.  In a surprising move WHO said they […]

China are to deploy nuclear submarines to the Pacific Ocean for the very first time, in a move that risks escalating an arms race with the U.S. Chinese military officials are refusing to comment, but […]