South African soap opera sparks fury with first inter-racial kiss in its 18-year history Long-running TV show broadcast its first interracial kiss since first airing in 2000 7de Laan soap actors received racist comments and messages after the scene  Actors Carina Nel and Nicholas Nkuna got hate mail and threats on social media  Bosses condemned ‘hate speech’ and pledged to […]

Madrid: Rescue crews in Spain appeared to be centimetres of rock away late Friday from the space where a two-year-old boy is believed to be trapped underground after falling into a borehole 12 days ago. Julen Rosello fell down the narrow 110-metre-deep borehole on January 13 while his family was preparing a countryside Sunday lunch. His parents had another young […]

Psychologists say it works as effectively as having your significant other in a room with you. The researchers asked 102 participants, all in romantic relationships, to complete a stressful task involving submerging one foot into cold water. Their blood pressure, heart rate and variation in heart rate was measured before during and after the task. They were then separated into […]

But what do we know about the 66-year-old and his personal life? How old is Vladimir Putin? The Russian leader's full name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. He was born in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) on October 7 1952, making him 66 years old. The President was the youngest of three sons born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and his wife Maria Ivanovna Putina, and […]

After the dramatic arrest and indictment of longtime Donald Trump friend and adviser Roger Stone on Friday morning, as CNN reported, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency said in a televised interview that he now expects special counsel Robert Mueller to unleash a flurry of new indictments in the Russia collusion investigation — and those indictments will hit […]

DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An American-born anchor for Iran’s state-run Press TV was freed after 10 days of detention in the United States after testifying as a material witness in an undisclosed federal investigation, a U.S. federal court order said on Thursday. Marzieh Hashemi testified four times before a federal grand jury beginning on Jan. 18, according to the order, which […]

A 13-year-old boy has been taken into custody by Hamilton police. Officers were called to Ancaster High School around 3 p.m. Thursday with a report of a boy waving a firearm outside the school. The school was placed under hold and secure protocol while police located and arrested the suspect, but the protocol was lifted about 15 minutes later. Police […]

Is there a better basketball player on the planet right now than James Harden? You don’t have to answer that. It was a rhetorical question. Of course there isn’t, and it’s not even close. The Houston Rockets star is having an epic season and is the slam dunk (pardon the pun) favourite to win the league’s Most Valuable Player Award […]

A 16-year-old teen is facing first-degree murder charges in connection to Regina’s eighth homicide of 2017. Police were called Oct. 27, 2017, to the 1000 block of Atkinson Street where a man was lying outside and appeared not to be breathing. EMS confirmed that 26-year-old Kelvin Kim Pasap was dead at the scene. Police arrested the 16-year-old teen on Jan. […]

TYSONS CORNER, Virginia — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg savaged President Trump on Friday as a “pretend CEO” who’s “totally incompetent,” but said he still hasn’t decided whether to run for president himself. “It’s a very complicated thing and I’ll take a look and see. It’s wonderful to have options, and I’m a very lucky guy,” Bloomberg told […]