Tragedy strikes within the Malaysian airline once again as flight MH17 was shot down while flying over the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. The plane went down with all 298 passengers aboard and none has survived the impact. The doomed plane was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday afternoon and ... read entire article »
Japan’s Mt. Fiji is now in a high pressure state that may lead to an eruption. The cause is the 2011 massive earthquake that was followed by a tsunami which destroyed Japan’s coast and brought irreparable damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The ... read entire article »
After four Palestinian boys, playing on the beach in Gaza were killed by Israeli shelling, both sides of the conflict have agreed to a temporary ceasefire for humanitarian reasons. Israel and Hamas will stop launching rockets at each other during a five-hour ... read entire article »
The biggest Ebola disease outbreak in history is wreaking havoc in West Africa as it killed over 600 people since February and the death toll is still rising. The World Health Organization, although initially reserved about talking of the gravity of the ... read entire article »
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared today a national day of mourning after a subway train derailed in Moscow during Tuesday’s rush-hour, killing 21 people and leaving another 130 severely injured. Investigations have ruled out a possible terrorist ... read entire article »
Israel resumed air strikes after a short six-hour truce as Hamas continued to launch rockets and ignored all calls for a ceasefire to the conflict that has now killed almost 200 Palestinians. Sami Abou Zahri, a Hamas spokesperson in Gaza explained why the ... read entire article »
Earlier this morning, Egypt proposed Israeli officials to accept a ceasefire so that negotiations to end the Israel-Palestine conflict could commence. Israel accepted Cairo’s offer for truce with the condition that the Gaza-based Hamas would stop launching ... read entire article »
Centuries of tradition and gender division are on the brink of being overturned by a decision made by the Church of England to allow women to become bishops. The governing body, the General Synod, approved the proposal after five hours of negotiations. ... read entire article »
The last day of the Pamplona bull run festival proved to be particularly brutal as three man had been gored by a bull which broke away from the pack of animals. The men were chased down and two of them were lifted in the air when the bull charged them and ripped ... read entire article »
Local authorities working with officials with the German Football Association are preparing a massive celebration tonight in the capital city. Tens of thousands of people are already gathered near the Brandenburg Gate while authorities say at least 200.000 people ... read entire article »
A Ukrainian military transport plane had crashed in the eastern region of the country after it was hit by a rebel missile. The whereabouts of the crew of 8 people aboard the aircraft remain unknown and a search and rescue mission is currently underway. ... read entire article »
Over two and a half years since it capsized off the coast of an Italian island, the Costa Concordia cruiser is afloat again, as of Monday midday. The biggest salvage operation of a passenger ship in history began 10 months ago, when workers dragged the ... read entire article »
Bowe Bergdahl, the American soldiers who spent the last five years in captivity among Talibans, could return to active duty as soon as today, as Defense Department officials declared. He is going to live in Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, the same place where he ... read entire article »
Germany's victory over Argentina in the Football World Cup final brought hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of Berlin. German police forces estimated about a quarter of a million people celebrated the success near the Brandenburg Gate in the Germany' ... read entire article »
Earlier today, Israeli naval commandos had been deployed into the Gaza Strip for a brief mission to neutralize what they called a rocket-launching area. At the same time, some 4,000 Palestinians were fleeing their home in the northern part of Gaza and moving more ... read entire article »
As rockets are launched every few minutes from Israel into the Gaza Strip and backwards, thousands of Palestinians are fleeing their homes, trying to escape the deadly attacks. In an effort to offer innocent citizens a chance of escape, Israel launches warning ... read entire article »
Afghanistan in in a critical situation. These are the words of US Secretary John Kerry who took a visit to Afghanistan. The tensions are so high because of the upcoming presidential elections. After more than ten years of ruling. Hamid Karzai is stepping down. He ... read entire article »
At least six suspected militants were killed in a US Drone strike in Pakistan. The air strike aimed the town of Datta Khel a small community near the Afghan border where joint forces believe militants hide. Pakistan launched an operation against militants hiding ... read entire article »
A gunman shot dead six people, four of them his children and then surrendered to police after a two hour standoff. Allegedly, the suspect shot the victims after a domestic fight. A seventh victim is in a critical condition after being shot in the head. At the ... read entire article »
Locals of the Iraqi town of Alexandria woke up on Wednesday to find that tens of dead bodies had been left in various parts of the town. Officials said that they retrieved more than 50 bodies of unidentified persons, including those of two children. Neither the ... read entire article »
