After a remarkable 24 hours in which Ronaldo seemed destined to head to United’s bitter crosstown rivals Manchester City, the Old Trafford giants announced that they had been the ones to capture the 36-year-old’s signature after he informed Juventus he wanted out of Turin with a year remaining on his …
Read More »Perestroika did not cause USSR’s downfall but ‘a lot of things’ should have been done differently, says ex-Soviet leader Gorbachev
That’s according to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who wrote an article for ‘Russia in Global Affairs’ explaining his point of view that perestroika was “historically correct” and necessary for the USSR. Gorbachev led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its collapse in 1991 and is seen as one of …
Read More »‘Things are going to get more difficult’: Death toll in Miami building collapse rises to 4 as officials report 159 missing
As of Friday morning, 159 people remain missing, up from the previous tally which showed 99 individuals unaccounted for. Three additional bodies have been pulled from the rubble, bringing the official death count to four. Eleven injuries have been reported, with four people receiving hospital treatment. The 12-story structure experienced …
Read More »The next big things: Plus-size models grace catwalks & Playboy covers as ‘fat acceptance’ movement starts to win its battle
Kat Henry – whose Instagram page is here – came third in last year’s Miss Great Britain beauty pageant. Her dress size is 16-18, and she’s FAT. That three letter F-word used to be taboo, but there’s now a burgeoning ‘fat acceptance’ movement sweeping the world. The new emphasis has …
Read More »End of an era: LiveLeak self-destructs after 15 years of providing unmitigated gore & all things NSFW
Hayden Hewitt, co-founder of LiveLeak and now ItemFix, did not directly confirm in any of his statements that the site was being dropped because of censorship, or that it was bowing and scraping before the deadly monolith of deplatforming, or any of the other grim fates that befall sites like …
Read More »UK minister tells Brits to ‘call out’ others for doing ‘odd’ things like HUGGING loved ones as lockdown eases
During an interview with BBC Breakfast on Monday, Huddleston said, “Despite the temptation, please don’t risk the health of your loved ones by actually hugging them.” “Also, if you see somebody behaving in a slightly odd way, then maybe call them out on it in a respectful way, because sometimes …
Read More »‘If you don’t have the police…things go a little crazy’: Former SEC official compares GameStop buying frenzy to US Capitol riot
Unger, who became a commissioner at the SEC in 1997 and was made acting chairman by George W. Bush for half of 2001, joined CNBC’s ‘Closing Bell’ on Thursday to give her thoughts on trading app Robinhood halting and then limiting the buying of stocks in companies such as GameStop …
Read More »No Syrian militants deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh: They ‘have things to do’ in their own country, insists Turkish leader Erdogan
“We don’t have any such agenda [to bring foreign fighters to support Azerbaijan],” Erdogan told a gathering of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party on Wednesday. In saying this, he was apparently taking a swipe at “those who call us to say ‘you sent the mujahideen from Syria’ [into …
Read More »Of all things in Trump fixer’s stabby stabby tell-all book, CNN leads with 2012 ‘Trump fires Faux-Bama’ parody video
Cohen is a former lawyer of President Donald Trump, who has authored a tell-all book promising readers insight into how bad and unfit for office his former boss is. The White House dismissed it as “fan fiction” by a convicted liar trying to cash in on past ties with the …
Read More »Sign of things to come? Iran shows off missiles named after Quds Force chief Soleimani & his Iraqi ally killed by US strike
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami referred to the new weapons in a televised speech on Thursday, revealing that a new surface-to-surface missile, called ‘Haj Qassem,’ has a range of 1,400km. The other projectile, an anti-ship cruise missile, called ‘Abu Mahdi,’ is able to reach targets more than 1,000km away. Footage …
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