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A surfing competition was cancelled today due to a shark attack on one of the finalists. Mick Fanning competing in the Jeffreys Bay surfing event was attacked by a shark as he paddled his board […]

Taiwan has two political parties, and both have nominated women for President – a first. According to the Associated Press [1]: The ruling Nationalist Party on Sunday picked as its candidate Hung Hsiu-chu, a former […]

The highly secretive MH17 investigation is raising serious questions and concerns from relatives of victims from the July 17 2014 crash and engineers, who are all demanding to hear the truth behind what happened on […]

The editor for Charlie Hebdo, Laurent Sourisseau, has announced that the magazine will no longer draw cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.  Souriseau said in an interview with a Hamburg-based magazine, “We have drawn Muhammad to defend […]

An employee of South Korea’s spy agency was found dead in his car with a final will and testament which also contained information on matters of “national interest.” Reports from Yongin, South Korea, indicate a […]

Local residents have been barred from entering a public beach on the French Riviera, allegedly for security reasons. The decision to close the beach, ahead of the Saudi royal family’s visit later this summer has […]

The government of Greece has pledged full support for privatisation on a national scale to her creditors. Greece’s Syriza party has done an about-face on the sell-off of state owned assets. The government of Alexis […]

An asteroid believed to be carrying up to 90 million tons of platinum in its core, along with other rare and precious materials, is about to pass our planet. The platinum-rich asteroid worth about £3.5 […]