The Chinese government is attempting to lobby British MPs to prevent human rights activists in the UK from criticizing its Hong Kong policy, a senior activist has claimed. Benedict Rogers, the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, said he was warned by two MPs about Beijing’s alleged attempts after he wrote an…
Germany is to increase defense spending by more than €5bn (£4.4bn) this year, Angela Merkel’s government informed Nato on Friday. It is the biggest rise in the German military budget since the end of the Cold War, but will still leave the country far short of meeting Nato’s target of spending 2 per cent of…
A manhunt is underway in the southeastern French city of Lyon after more than a dozen people were injured in the explosion of a "nail bomb". The blast was caused by a "home-made bomb" in a case containing "an explosive charge and nuts and bolts", which went off at 5.30pm local time, said the interior ministry. The…
A record eight children have won the US National Spelling Bee after organisers ran out of difficult words to separate them. The finalists, who are aged between 12 and 14 years old, all successfully navigated 20 rounds of increasingly obscure words to be crowned co-champions in one of America’s oldest competitions. Click Here: Cheap Chiefs…
Nasa is opening up the International Space Station to tourists, who will be able to pay nearly $60 million (£47.1m) for month-long holidays in orbit starting from next year. The space agency also announced private companies would be allowed to use the orbiting platform for business ventures including filming TV advertisements, and using Nasa astronauts…
Donald Trump has instructed close advisers to play down internal White House polling that showed him losing heavily to Joe Biden in key industrial "rust belt" states ahead of the 2020 election. According to a leaked 17-state poll, conducted by the president’s pollster Tony Fabrizio, Mr Trump was down 16 points in Pennsylvania, and 10…
Kim Jong-un has received an “excellent” letter from Donald Trump, North Korean state media reported, and will "seriously contemplate the interesting content". Mr Kim, 35, was pictured reading the letter, the contents of which were not disclosed. But the North Korean leader was evidently impressed by the letter and its author, praising Mr Trump’s "extraordinary…
La bande-annonce du drame “Margin Call” emmené par Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey et Jeremy Irons a été dévoilée ! La bande-annonce du drame Margin Call de JC Chandor a été dévoilée. Le long métrage raconte les 24 heures de la vie des membres d’une banque d’investissements au début de la crise financière. Parmi ces membres…
LOS ANGELES, CA — Dispatch audio reveals the captain of a 75-foot-long commercial scuba-diving boat that caught fire early Monday morning near Santa Cruz Island told the U.S. Coast Guard that passengers had no way to escape while locked on board, according to a report by Comstock’s. By Tuesday morning, 20 bodies had been recovered…
It was previously reported that the expected location for WWE’s WrestleMania 36 in 2020 was Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Tampa Sports Reporter Collin Sherwin noted on Twitter that the official announcement will likely come on Thursday, March 7th. A press conference is scheduled for that afternoon in Tampa. It was reported back in…