The late anti-apartheid activist Winnie Mandela was both loved and reviled in his own country. She was given the pet name Mother of the Nation, by the stoic calm with which she underwent the threats and harassment of the then-white government, but within the anti-apartheid movement her position was controversial.
Scientists have ever discovered the furthest star. It stands at no less than 9 billion light-years away from the earth. Until now, there were complete galaxies and supernovas (exploding stars) seen at such distances, but no individual, normally shining stars.
In an attic of the museum Hoyt Sherman Place in the American state of Iowa a painting by the Dutch master Otto van Veen was discovered. The work bears the name Apollo and Venus and was probably made in the year 1600.
Disgusting food remains from the bulging trash cans and an allegedly illegal deal with the embassy of Albania. Opposite of the turret of Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague, the nuisance of an Italian restaurant was spit.
A British court has drawn a line through the planned release of John Radford, who for years abused women in his taxi. Two victims objected to this, reports British media. Their lawyers argued that Radford had deceived the committee that decided that he could be released.
Suppose you find a lottery of a million dollars on the ground. Do you keep it or track down the rightful owner? A merciful employee of a Clerk gas station in Kansas, America, opted for the latter.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has traveled to China according to the American news agency Bloomberg. Bloomberg relies on three sources that are not mentioned by name.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets to protest against weapons and the surprise of the day was Yolanda Renee King, a granddaughter of the legendary Martin Luther King. She repeated the 'I have a dream.'
The newfound parliamentarians of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) insult and denounce that it is a sweet lust. They call CDU chancellor Angela Merkel a 'whore' and a 'dictator', and they place her face on toilet photos.
A well-known Turkish singer and actress has been sentenced to ten months in prison for insulting President Erdogan during a performance in 2016.
The belongings of the late American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor are being auctioned. Nearly a thousand items, including jewelery, paintings, furniture and diva dresses, appear under the hammer in April, reports Heritage Auctions auction house in Beverly Hills.
Turkey continues military operations in Syria. That said the Turkish president Erdogan, who put the 'terrorists \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; want to expel from the areas around Manbij, Kamishli, Kobani and Ras al-Ayn. The Turkish leader did not rule out also to take action against Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.
At least eleven people were killed when a bomb exploded in the Syrian town of Afrin. It concerns four fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and seven civilians, said a source in the security services Monday against the Turkish state press agency Anadolu.
Zimbabweans may go to the ballot box in July for the first presidential election since the departure of Robert Mugabe. It is the first time in decades that Mugabe's name is not on the ballot.
The Turkish army denies having bombed a hospital in Afrin, the main city of the Kurdish enclave of the same name in north-western Syria. 'This operation is conducted in a way that leaves civilians and innocents out of action', the Turkish army reports on Twitter.
Presenter Anderson Cooper will receive 60 Minutes pornstar Stormy Daniels in his program on Sunday March 25th. The station reported this on Friday. The conversation with Stephanie Clifford, as her own name is, was already recorded last week.
A distant space rock that will receive a visit from the earth next year has been given a name. The block 2014 MU69, past Pluto, is now called Ultima Thule. For the Greeks and Romans, Thule was a mythical island in the far north. Ultima Thule, which means 'beyond Thule', indicates that the probe goes 'beyond the limits of the known world'.
Model legend Hubert de Givenchy has passed away. The designer and name giver of the famous fashion house has turned 91.
The left wing in France immediately frowned when they heard the proposal to baptize Front National in Rassemblement National. The new name looks suspiciously like a French party that was raving against the German Nazis during the Second World War. The symbol of the old Rassemblement National Populaire, founded in 1941 and disappeared in 1944, was a variant of a swastika.
On the final day at the party congress of the French right-wing populists in Lille, Marine Le Pen proposed to baptize the Front National and to make a new start as 'Rassemblement National'. That means as much as national cooperation or meeting but also gathering together.
Marine Le Pen has been re-elected as party leader of the French right-wing populist Front National. She received 100 percent of the valid votes. The result was announced Sunday on the second day of the party congress in Lille. Le Pen was the only candidate.
Steve Bannon, the former adviser to US President Donald Trump, has promised the supporters of the Front National election victories. That made Saturday loudly cheer at the congress of the right-wing populist party of Marine Le Pen in Lille. 'You are part of a worldwide movement. We have history on our side. '
Donald Trump held telephone consultations with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about North Korea. The American president said that via Twitter on Saturday. He wrote the name of his interlocutor in capitals and wrong.
After a week of offensive, Turkish soldiers have reached the outskirts of the city of Afrin in the north of Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Turks are advancing on the east side of the city.
After Nigeria, Liberia has also been startled by an outbreak of welding fever. Twelve people have died because of the dreaded virus infection. That's what the Liberian Health Service chief announced on the state radio Friday. So far, 28 cases of infection have been reported.
BBC presenter Helen Skelton, who gained name and fame because of the spicy outfits in which she did her work, has been banned from the TV team for the coming Commonwealth Games. Note on the International Women's Day the British broadcaster announced that the blonde does not return to the tube. And that gives the British a lot of crooked faces.
In Bulgaria, a shop was closed that bore the striking name Occasion Den Haag. In the shop telephones were brought to the man that had been stolen in the Dutch city of The Hague.
Actions rather than words. That is the appeal to the British government in response to the assassination attempt of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in Salisbury. But in the absence of hard evidence Minister of Interior Amber Rudd chooses words for now. 'Shameless and reckless' she calls the attack.
The surname of football player Sanchez Watt has caused a noticeable case of 'miscommunication' on the pitch. He already got a yellow card, but due to a misunderstanding that quickly turned red.
There is no dispute about taste and one calls it blasphemy, the other vandalism. What is certain is that it is now a protected brand name: Jesus loves nachos. After eight months of struggle, the Australian city council member Toni Tapp Coutts has succeeded in registering the graffiti that has been decorating a rusty railway bridge in her hometown Katherine for years with the Australian trademark agency.
