Rod Stewart Clowns Argetina … For Pathetic World Cup 6/25/2018 6:34 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE Wanna see Rod Stewart mock Argentina for sucking in the World Cup and then defend Sweden? Great, you’re gonna love this clip! The singer — who’s a MASSIVE soccer fan — hit up Delilah for dinner over the weekend, when he […]
The majority of Russians remember the date on which Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union and about a third can quote stories from relatives who took part in WWII, according to a recent poll. The state-run public opinion research center VTSIOM released the results of their latest study concerning the history and legacy of WWII […]
The race is on between Donald Trump and the Democrats. Who can screw up Asia quicker? Can the Democrats sabotage Trump’s North Korea deal first? Or will Trump win the race to burn China, the rest of Asia, and the world economy to the ground with his $ 100 billion trade war trash fire? Meanwhile, […]
In the eighty-fourth edition of the Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the frontpage articles from four Russian newspapers: Komsomolskaya Pravda, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Izvestia, and Moskovsky Komsomolets. He examines the chances of an invasion of the Donbas region by the Ukrainian military during the Soccer World Cup which starts in Russia on June 14. […]
By Richard Webb FOR 30 years, the United Nations organisation UNESCO has been augmenting its World Heritage List with sites of particular importance for biodiversity, geology and evolution. There are currently 206 of them, with a further eight nominations due to be considered this June. From bizarre geological formations and singular habitats to fascinating fossil […]
By Claire Asher IN THE early hours of 10 June 1886, the ground beneath Mount Tarawera on New Zealand’s North Island began to shake. After an intensifying swarm of earthquakes, the volcano erupted from three domes, spewing hot gases and rocks into the air. Surveyor Henry Roche observed the inferno from his camp nearby, describing […]
Welcome, stranger: Tupaia’s sketch of an encounter between artist Joseph Banks and a MaoriBritish Library Board In the 250 years since he set sail from Plymouth, readings of James Cook’s three maritime expeditions have zigzagged as wildly as the drunken-looking course of his vessels around the islands of the South Pacific. Did the self-made captain […]
Sadiq Khan can be forgiven for his bias in calling the capital “the best city in the world,” but also calling it “one of the safest” while homicide rates spike comes across as either tone-deaf or outright untrue. Khan took to Twitter with a promotional video aimed at reducing knife crime amongst young Londoners and […]
For nearly 150 years, beginning in 1688 with the launch of the Nine Years’ War and stretching through the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, Great Britain engaged in a state of near-constant warfare. Sparring alternatively with France, Spain, the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire during this time, the Crown required hundreds […]
A Russian pro-Christian MP says ahead of the 2018 World Cup the police should launch special units manned by “true patriots” and deploy them in cities to fight “asocial persons” including prostitutes and pimps. Vitaly Milonov, widely known as the key sponsor of the Russian law that bans the promotion of “non-traditional” sexual relations to […]