Photodisc/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — The wife of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s chief spokesman has triggered outrage by performing a Holocaust-themed ice-skating routine on a Russian reality television show. Tatiana Navka, a former Olympic ice dancer who is Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(HAVANA) — The Ladies in White, a prominent group of Cuban dissidents, has cancelled a weekly Sunday protest march in lieu of Castro’s death. Typically, the group of women, who are primarily composed of the wives of jailed dissidents, attend Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(ALEPPO, Syria) — Russia’s military said Sunday that Syrian government troops have pressed into rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Aleppo, as a two week-long offensive there grinds forward, sending hundreds of civilians fleeing and Read More
moodboard/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The Arctic, the northernmost polar region characterized by cold winters and vast sheets of white ice, is “undergoing rapid, sometimes turbulent change beyond anything previously experienced,” according to a new five-year Read More
Alessandra Ambrosio/Instagram(PARIS) — The angels are now in flight. Supermodels walking in the upcoming 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, including Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid, are off to Paris, which will host the show for the first time this Read More
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban castaway boy rescued off the coast of Florida in 1999 by a pair of sport fishermen, spoke fondly of Fidel Castro on Saturday, describing the late former Cuban leader as a father figure who became a Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A man dressed only in his underpants led police to an unlicensed driver who allegedly crashed a car into an Australian takeout restaurant before fleeing the scene — and in the process has become a folk hero. Daniel McConnell, who Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(AUCKLAND, New Zealand) — At least seven people were killed after the fishing vessel they were onboard capsized Saturday in New Zealand’s Kaipara Harbour. Three of eleven people on the boat survived the incident, according to BBC, and one Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(HAVANA) — Minutes after state television announced the death of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, concert halls shut down late night activities and young Cubans flooded the streets of Havana. As speculation rose regarding what might occur in the Read More
Kathryn Burnett(LONDON) — One “Harry Potter” fan will have a very Harry Christmas. British woman Kathryn Burnett combined her love of J.K. Rowling’s popular book series with her love of Christmas to create a “Harry Potter”-themed Read More
