Twenty-four detained in latest Spanish corruption raid
Police in Spain arrested 24 people in an anti-corruption operation in the Valencia region on Tuesday. Many of those detained belong, or used to belong to the country’s ruling People’s…
Visit one of Europe’s last cassette factories
Let us take you on a visit to one of the last audio cassette factories in Europe. At its peak, back in the Eighties, it sold around 400000 tapes a…
Comedians defend Michelle Wolf for controversial jokes at White House Correspondents’ dinner
“Daily Show” correspondent Michelle Wolf has drawn criticism for comments she made while hosting this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner. But fellow comedians have been coming to her defense. Interested…
CeBIT 2017: Digitising Fashion
Digitisation is transforming every sector, including fashion. Japanese company Seiren is at CeBIT 2017 showing off a system that allows customers to try on 470000 different clothing combinations… source
Trump dodges questions about vulgar Africa remark
Trump said he had had “tremendous discussions” with President Kagame in a sit-down during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We have trade with Rwanda and just general, I…
Caravan migrants waking up on Mexican side of the border after getting refused US entry
Upward of 100 people from Central America who traveled north in a so-called “migrant caravan” to seek asylum in the United States are waking up on the Mexican side of…
Trump welcomes first leader from sub-Saharan Africa
The discussions with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari are likely to center around security challenges, including the nearly decade-long insurgency by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria’s northeast. But the meeting’s tricky…
Violent video: Ukraine TV boss beaten up, forced to resign by far-right Svoboda MPs
The head of Ukraine’s state TV company has been attacked by at least three MPs from the far-right Svoboda party and forced to resign. Members of Svoboda barged their way…
Merkel and Hollande ‘deeply regret’ Britain’s vote to leave the EU
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she deeply regrets the British vote to leave the EU. But she says Europe needs to remain “calm and composed” in the wake…
President Trump bashes White House Correspondents’ Dinner
President Donald Trump declared the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “dead” and called for the event to be scrapped or reinvented going forward, adding his voice to the widespread criticism that…