JaVale McGee is one of the most electric players in the NBA. But the high-flying Denver Nuggets superstar was 72 hours away from being aborted before God decided to intervene. His mother, Pamela, who herself was a professional basketball player,
Thomas Piketty has written a new book that is causing a great commotion inside and outside of liberal economic circles, among Americans who think themselves to be “progressive” but are really just plain socialists. The basic thesis of the book,
The granddaughter of World War II fascist Benito Mussolini will be on the ballot in Italy’s May elections. Alessandra Mussolini says she is “surprised” to hear she is a candidate but will “accept the challenge.” According to thelocal.it, “the former
A survey of nearly 11,000 people across 20 different countries has revealed that eurosceptic voters tend to lean towards more traditional values, and distrust government and corporations more than those who think favourably of the European Union. The huge survey
Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi is no stranger to scandal, and certainly no stranger to being convicted of tax fraud. His latest conviction may have the 77-year-old working with the elderly at a nursing home to complete his one-year sentence, announced
Credere, a Catholic weekly, reports that the Vatican has decided to employ a hawk to protect the Pope’s doves, after two doves were killed by a crow and seagull on January 26th. The doves were promptly killed by the birds
(AFP) Italy’s Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino plans to make a debut television series entitled “The Young Pope” about Lenny Belardo–a fictional first-ever Italian American pontiff, an Italian daily reported on Tuesday. The name of the actor who will play the
In most cases, the humiliation of French socialist President Francois Hollande in Sunday’s final round of national local elections could mean nothing but joy for the eurosceptics among Britain’s Conservatives. The euro-enthusiast Hollande has been battered by Marine LePen’s anti-EU
Iran has named Hamid Aboutalebi, a militant who helped hold 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, to be its next ambassador to the United Nations, reports Bloomberg. Aboutalebi, Iran’s former ambassador to Belgium and Italy, was a member of the
(AFP)–Vatican police on Saturday apprehended an American and a Dutch man who were trying to deposit billions of euros and US dollars in fake bonds in the Vatican bank. The men were stopped by the police when they approached one
With a turnover of 53 billion euros ($73 billion) in 2013, the ‘Ndrangheta mafia from southern Italy made more money last year than Deutsche Bank and McDonalds put together, a new study said Wednesday. The study by the Demoskopika research
The people of Venice and its surrounding region have voted to split from Italy, with 89 percent favouring independence. The referendum, which took place online over a period of five days, saw a turnout of 73 percent, with just 11
Kanye West is getting a King for his queen, Kim Kardashian–10 in all. The rap star knows getting a gift for the woman who has everything is a tall order. So he used some right brain thinking and came up
The reboot of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” was advertised proudly as Science! Science! Science! but according to the science magazine Discover, in their apparent zeal to trash the Catholic Church, the creators behind “Cosmos” went all anti-science in their depiction of
Michael Gove is by some distance the most brilliant and effective member of David Cameron’s Cabinet. All right: so maybe this is a bit like being the fastest downhill ski-racer in Jamaica, or the greatest military hero in Italy, or
Polls opened in Venice yesterday in a referendum on whether the city and its surrounding region should leave Italy and become independent. The five-day-long vote is taking place online and has been organised by activists at plebiscito.eu who are dissatisfied
Scientists who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming should be put in prison, a US philosophy professor argues on a website funded by the UK government. Lawrence Torcello – assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY,
The EU is attempting to ban American companies from using the names of European cheeses to describe their own products. As part of ongoing trade negotiations between the European Union and United States, the EU has requested that only cheeses
The office of the European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has denied that the EU boss was forced to wear a hijab at meetings held in Iran alongside Mohammad Javad Zarif, her Iranian counterpart. Though the meetings were criticised
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia’s air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. The revelations add
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people had
A well-known Conservative Member of Parliament once told me, “I wish we were the Labour Party. Not because I agree with them. But because it is so easy being on the left.” A lot of what you can find on
A couple from Montana scammed a nation and the press to become Winter Olympians from the nation of Dominica. And now they–and their lies–have been exposed. A longtime sportswriter who used to work at the Washington City Paper exposed the couple
Last week’s economic data confirmed an emerging trend, with inflation in the developed world consistently falling. Meanwhile, US Housing Starts fell off rather sharply. While the powers that be were keen to peddle the idea that it was down to
A plan to divide California into six separate US states is closer to making it on to a November ballot, with organizers gaining approval to collect signatures. The seemingly far-fetched initiative, sponsored by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper, claims
