Click:全国楼凤论坛 Around 300 people are stranded in Svalbard, after the North Pole was closed to visitors for the first time in 18 years over tensions between Russia and Ukraine. The seasonal camp of Barneo, from where explorers are allowed to travel to the North Pole for […]
The first wine made on the red planet will be a white. At least, that’s what researchers in Georgia, the world’s oldest wine-making country, are hoping. As Nasa and Elon Musk race to put people on Mars, this tiny nation nestled between Russia and […]
Donald Trump has revealed that he considered nominating his daughter Ivanka to head up the World Bank, saying that she is “very good with numbers”. The US president also said he believes she would have been "great" at the United […]
1. Iraq Apache helicopter attack Horrifying video footage showing 15 people including two Reuters journalists being shot dead by a US Army Apache helicopter gunman, taken from the helicopter’s gun camera, appalled the world when it was released on Wikileaks. The crew were heard […]
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was deposed by the country’s military on Thursday, but protesters against his iron-fisted rule defied a night-time curfew to rally against the military "coup". In a televised address, Sudan’s defence minister said the military would rule the country directly […]
The remains of a vast palace built by the Emperor Nero, including a 50-seat latrine where slaves and workers would chat while they attended to their needs, opens to the public for the first time today. The Domus Transitoria was a huge […]
The United Nations has called off a reconciliation conference aimed at organizing elections in Libya because of fighting raging near the capital city. Ghassan Salame, the UN envoy to Libya, said the national conference planned for next week would be postponed […]
Switzerland on Wednesday announced plans to abolish the nation’s emergency stockpile of coffee, in place for decades, after declaring the beans not vital for human survival, though opposition to the proposal is brewing. Nestle, the maker of instant coffee Nescafe, and other importers, […]
The Japanese government on Wednesday lifted the mandatory evacuation order for parts of the town of Okuma, more than eight years after three reactors at the nearby Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant suffered melt-downs caused by a magnitude-9 earthquake that triggered […]
India begins the biggest election of all time as around 140 million vote across 18 states in the first phase of the polls set to last around six weeks. Ninety-one seats will be decided today, out of a total of 543 in […]