An Australian and an Englishman are literally shaking the walls as they vie to produce the world’s loudest burp. Australian Neville Sharp unofficially broke Essex-based Paul Hunn’s record on Tuesday with a 110.6 decibel belch. But unwilling to surrender his crown, Mr Hunn returned fire with a 117.9 decibel burp just one day later. Neither record has been verified by Guinness World Records, which still lists Mr Hunn’s previous champion […]
Justin Trudeau will become the first Canadian Prime Minister ever to take part in a pride parade organised by the LGBT community in Toronto. “This year’s Parade will make Canadian history, with Justin Trudeau participating as the first ever sitting Prime Minister to march,” Pride Toronto said in a statement on Monday. Trudeau, responding to Pride Toronto’s announcement on social media, tweeted saying “Very much look forward to being there […]
The former First Lady and the top American diplomat who is aiming to create history by becoming the first woman president of the US was responding to question if the country is ready for it. Hillary Clinton has said she is not sure if the US is ready to elect its first woman president even as the Democratic presidential front-runner emphasised that there has been a “big improvement” in people’s […]
Harper Lee, who wrote one of America’s most enduring literary classics, To Kill a Mockingbird, about a child’s view of right and wrong and waited 55 years to publish a second book with the same characters from a very different point of view, died at the age of 89 on Friday. Mary Jackson, the city clerk in Lee’s hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, said by phone that Lee had died. A […]
On Christmas Eve 2015, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was publicly confident that his country had “technically won the war” against the Islamist group Boko Haram. Less than two months into 2016, and the group is still wreaking havoc across northern Nigeria and beyond. Since the beginning of the year, the group has killed more than 100 people and continued to drive many more from their homes as they flee for […]
If Melania Trump succeeds Michelle Obama as First Lady, she may trace her road to the White House back to 1987 and a chance encounter in the capital of her native Slovenia. “I was leaving a fashion show in Ljubljana and saw her in front of the building. She was probably waiting for a friend,” said Slovenian photographer Stane Jerko. “She was tall and slim so she caught my eye […]
A Canadian man who disappeared 30 years ago is set to be reunited with his family after remembering his identity, Canadian media reported. Edgar Latulip was 21 when he went missing from a home for disabled people in Ontario province. He boarded a bus, but soon after suffered a head injury that police believe robbed him of his memory. Mr Latulip lived in the Niagara region under a different identity […]
The exhumed skeleton of trade unionist Timoteo, who was shot in 1939 in the months after the Spanish Civil War, revives bitter memories of the Franco era. A 90-year-old Spanish woman wrapped in a fur coat and woollen scarf stood over a deep open grave and murmured “my father” to the unearthed skeleton lying at the bottom. Ascension Mendieta’s trade unionist father Timoteo was shot in 1939 in the months […]
North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday in defiance against sanction threats violating UN resolutions. The launch sparked a rage from an international community already determined to punish Pyongyang for a nuclear test in January. While South Korea’s Yonhap news agency had earlier suggested the launch may have failed, North Korea’s state television later confirmed on Sunday that the long-range rocket launch, ordered by leader Kim Jong Un to […]
A dead woman identified as Linda Marie Smith was found, along with two Capuchin monkeys, an incoherent man, and a note, in a Florida motel. The local police department reported on Facebook on Jan. 29 that Smith’s body “showed no obvious signs of trauma” but they did not rule out suicide. This was a strange scene indeed, According to law enforcment in the area, the 59-year-old woman’s cause of death […]
