A massive thunderstorm in Rio de Janeiro knocked out ESPN’s power just after Germany shellshocked Brazil by scoring five goals in 18 minutes in the first half. “Our studio has gone dark much like Brazil,” host Mike Tirico said. He
As Germany was demolishing and humiliating Brazil 5-0 in the first half of a World Cup Semifinal battle on Tuesday, some Brazilian fans showed their anger by burning Brazilian flags. Soccer is like a religion to Brazilians, and they are
LILLE, France (AP) — One former Tour de France champion dropped out of this year’s race and another crashed but recovered as the cycling showcase got back on home turf Tuesday after a boisterous three-day start across the channel in
Climate change is not to blame for the disappearance of the Caribbean coral reef, an environmental group has admitted. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has issued a report saying that the blame instead lies in the
(AFP) The United States tried to cool Monday a new spy row with Germany after Chancellor Angela Merkel warned reports an alleged German double agent helped the CIA could again damage trust between the allies. Revelations that a 31-year-old German
MURRIETA — Demonstrators opposed to illegal immigration stood their ground again at the Murrieta Border Patrol station on Monday, where U.S. Border Patrol had been scheduled to transfer a third round of buses, with approximately 140 illegal aliens aboard in
A Germany neo-Nazi today took a seat on the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, outraging the parliament’s German Socialist president Martin Schulz, who said: “There is no place for racists and anti-Semites in this
A self-proclaimed British Islamic “freedom fighter” is being investigated by Malaysian Special Branch officers who suspect him of a leaving trail of bigamous marriages across Europe and Asia. According to the Daily Mail, police have named the man who may
German authorities have arrested a 31-year-old man for alleged espionage in the favor of the United States and passing on key intelligence information. According to multiple reports, the man, who worked for German intelligence service BND, was working as a
Diplomatic relations between Germany and American have been hit again by allegations of spying, this time by reports that agents of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) have been using an employee of the German intelligence service (BND) to obtain
Today, as Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, USMC, languishes in a Mexican prison for a fourth month–he was arrested on minor charges on March 31–many Americans are frustrated by the Obama administration’s obvious lack of concern. Yet it doesn’t have to be like
Even though the United States have been eliminated from the World Cup, ESPN’s broadcasts of the tournament’s quarterfinal matches during the Fourth of July weekend set more records for the network. According to Nielsen, “the Independence Day match between host
With three of the most Catholic countries in the world among the final four teams in the World Cup, including the Pope’s Argentinians after their win Saturday over Belgium, many Catholics and Lutherans may expect Pope Francis’ next confession to
Brazilian superstar Neymar thought he was paralyzed when he could not feel his legs after Colombian Juan Zuniga fractured his back on Friday during Brazil’s 2-1 quarterfinal victory. Brazil’s coach Luiz Felipe Scolari told a Spanish newspaper that Neymar immediately told
While the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and China and many other countries have warmly embraced genetically modified crops, Europe remains the world’s big holdout. Could this be about to change? New European Union rules now seek to clear up
London’s century-old process for fixing gold prices, tainted by a rigging scandal and attacked by critics as old-fashioned, goes under the spotlight this week in key talks aimed at modernising the process. Analysts said that the market price of gold,
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Gonzalo Higuain’s first goal of this World Cup sent Argentina into the semifinals on Saturday with a 1-0 win over a disappointing Belgium. Argentina, which hadn’t advanced past the World Cup quarterfinals since 1990, put in
Not content with ruining his own country’s economy and seeing some of its best and brightest flee to freer lands, the French President, François Hollande, is trying to spread his own particular flavour of socialism across Europe via everyone’s favourite
FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — With tears streaming down his face after being kneed in the back, Neymar was carried off the field on a stretcher. He won’t be coming back. Not to this World Cup, anyway. The 22-year-old Brazil striker,
Recycling is authoritarian, demeaning and an unutterable waste of time, energy and money. No surprise, then, that the European Union is planning to force its vassal states to do much, much more of it. Last week, the European Commission proposed
German lawmakers on July 3rd approved the introduction of the country’s first national minimum wage of $11.75 per hour. For the last decade, Germany’s greater “labor flexibility” allowed its economy to flourish, while most of the other European Union members’
FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil made its way into the World Cup semifinals for the first time in 12 years, with goals coming from defenders Thiago Silva and David Luiz in a 2-1 win over Colombia on Friday. Brazil, which
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Germany reached the semifinals for a fourth straight World Cup by beating France 1-0 Friday in a cagey match settled by a first-half header from Mats Hummels. The center back headed Toni Kroos’ free kick
A deep divide is growing between Britain and the EU as the latter piles on regulations in the name of the Single Market. Jean-Claude Juncker’s “election” as President of the European Commission is just the latest manifestation of this. With an increasing
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is resisting NATO calls for permanent deployment of allied troops in former Soviet bloc countries, amid fears of retaliation by Russia. During a visit to Berlin yesterday by NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Merkel acknowledged
Four police officers and two drugs-sniffer dogs, accompanied by a state prosecutor, yesterday searched the Berlin apartment of a leading Social Democrat politician suspected of buying hard drugs. This is the second police investigation of a leading Social Democrat spokesman
From 1957 until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Staatssicherheit–or Stasi–was the most feared and effective intelligence agency, operating as the “sword and shield” and striking fear into the hearts of East Germans. Their omnipresent network of both employees
Americans frustrated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reluctance to meet demands for stronger sanctions against Russia have now begun to ask if there is a good reason the German leader has been targeted by US spies. Questions are being raised
America is like a Fourth of July sparkler held high in the night air. It’s dazzling in its defense of this nation and patriotic to the core. The docudrama, the second feature from the team behind 2016: Obama’s America, finds
A hard-hitting new campaign claims that if the Syrian Civil War was taking place in Britain, London would be abandoned while everyone in the town of Reading, which has a population of over 150,000, would be dead. The online international
In what El País newspaper has called Spain’s “demographic blood drain without precedents,” tens of thousands of Spaniards are fleeing their own country to escape the eurozone economic disaster which has left total unemployment rate at over 25 per cent
The U.S. men’s soccer team survived the “Group of Death,” but after traveling nearly 10,000 miles across Brazil, their run in the 2014 World Cup is over. And it ended in extra time. Again. In the opening minutes of the
Just prior to the World Cup, Time magazine ran an opinion piece titled “How Soccer Is Destroying American Exceptionalism.” Andres Martinez wrote, “It’s hard to exaggerate how much soccer’s incursion into American life threatens to erode American exceptionalism, not to
PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was detained Tuesday and reportedly questioned by financial investigators in a corruption probe that could cloud his chances of a political comeback. The detention — a very unusual move for such a
An Islamist who is accused of radicalising three British jihadis to fight for ISIS, has been exposed as a benefit-claiming hypocrite, by the Mail. Thirty-five year old Abu Waleed spends his days inciting hated against Christians on the internet and has
As Breitbart London reported just hours after Jean-Claude Juncker was nominated to be the next president of the European Commission, the (allegedly) wine-sodden and certainly triumphant Juncker is now in line for a €321,000 (£257,000) a year salary, a private
Europe’s fragile recovery is stalling, a batch of economic data showed this week, with analysts warning that France, with the eurozone’s second-biggest economy, could be slipping into another downturn. Even the eurozone’s economic powerhouse Germany — whose performance is increasingly
Two NASA astronauts serving on the International Space Station lost a bet over the World Cup game between Germany and the U.S. They also lost their hair with Germany’s 1-0 win on Thursday. U.S. astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman
On June 28, 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were murdered by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. The assassination set off a chain of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War in
(Reuters) – Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo challenged U.S. President Barack Obama to a bet over Belgium’s impending World Cup knock-out match against the United States, offering the prospect of some “great Belgian beers” should the U.S. team win. On Thursday,
