Thong and dance! Thousands of nearly-nude men caper in traditional Japan Naked Festival where they battle it out for pair of sacred sticks Approximately 9,000 Japanese men took part in the naked festival, held in the Saidaiji Temple in Okayama  They battle each other to try and grab sacred wooden sticks that promise them good fortune and happiness  Men shoved […]

47-car pile up leaves at least one dead Icy Missouri highway leaves at least one dead due to a 47-car pile up. Snowfall in western Missouri caused a terrifying 47-car pile up that left at least one person dead. Video from the incident on I-70 near Oak Grove shows dozens of cars and trucks incapable of slowing down on the icy […]

This story originally appeared on The Undefeated. It was a brisk early afternoon in January, and I was sitting in a van in Durham, North Carolina, with Phil Freelon, arguably the most prominent working African-American architect in the country. Freelon is best known for designing the National Museum of African American History and Culture and other major museum projects — […]

The French president has reportedly softened his stance after an eleventh-hour bid by the EU to help get the withdrawal agreement finalised. Senior European diplomats said the British government would be given enough in terms of legal assurances to persuade attorney general Geoffrey Cox to change his advice that the backstop could be used to trap the country in a […]

A stunning victory for the Umbrella Movement’s Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow. Three prominent, pro-democracy student leaders in Hong Kong are being freed after the city’s highest court unanimously quashed their jail sentences. It is a stunning victory for Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow, after recent setbacks for pro-democracy groups – including one candidate’s disqualification from […]

A woman who was kidnapped following a robbery in downtown Kamloops on Thursday was found Friday morning in Falkland by RCMP. According to Kamloops RCMP, the kidnapping took place after two armed men robbed three individuals: two men and a woman. Police say one of the suspects took the woman against her will in one of the other victim’s vehicle. […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will take all possible diplomatic steps to ensure the “complete isolation” of Pakistan in response to an attack by an Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) that killed 44 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir on Thursday, India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday. This would include India removing most favored nation privileges given to Pakistan […]

Britain is “narrowly on the wrong side” of international law over arms sales to Saudi Arabia during the Yemen conflict, a Westminster watchdog has warned. It was “highly likely” that UK weapons had caused “significant” civilian casualties during the course of the brutal four-year civil war, the House of Lords international relations committee said. The influential cross-party group said relying […]

Former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili says Ukraine is trying to ‘get rid’ of him for anti-corruption campaigning. Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president and current leader of an opposition party in Ukraine, has accused Ukrainian officials of wanting to “get rid” of him, days after a court rejected his plea for protection from possible extradition. Saakashvili – who is wanted in Georgia […]

Tania Joya, 35, claims she is now completely rehabilitated and happily married with four children in Texas even though she once was a jihadi bride who travelled to Syria. She has now backed calls for ISIS bride Shamima Begum to be given a second chance and allowed to return to Britain. Joya told the Daily Mail: “Shamima was a child […]