A 20-year-old green-eyed girl from Kirkuk was chosen Miss Iraq in the first national pageant in over four decades. The final had to be moved from Basra to Baghdad after receiving threats from radical Muslims. Eight contenders competed for the crown and a chance to represent Iraq in the Miss Universe contest. Organizers tried to stick to criteria of the international event, but made concessions to... 

Donald Trump has fiercely defended Vladimir Putin when an ABC host cited “allegations” accusing the Russian president of killing reporters. Try to prove it, the Republican presidential hopeful said, reminding the media of the presumption of innocence. The heated discussion took place on ABC’s “This Week” show on Sunday when host George Stephanopoulos started asking the mogul... 

Even though the EU tries to control the situation with refugees from the Middle East, the police and the Europeans themselves have to admit: a wave of robberies and rapes has swept across Europe. At the same time, journalists, police officers and even European female residents are shocked that their male friends, lovers and even husbands are afraid to protect them from rapists and thieves. The police... 

Last week Donald Trump lit up the political world when he proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants to the United States following the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. The Obama White House said it “disqualifies him” from being president, totally proving how disconnected he is with the reality and with what the majority of America really wants. The latest FOX News poll shows a majority of... 

Sweden’s top public broadcaster SVT has ordered its employees not to use the word “immi grant” because it might be seen as politically incorrect, while also prohibiting the terms “black” and “dark skinned” because they may “arouse criticism” of terrorists and criminals. The TV station’s new “language manual” orders its journalists not to say “immigrant” because it might... 

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump responded to Vladimir Putin’s comment, in which the Russian president called Trump “the absolute front-runner,” stating that it was a “great honor” to receive praise from a “highly respected” leader like Putin. “It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond,”... 

The issue of government surveillance was one of the key issues discussed at the Republican debate in Las Vegas. While Donald Trump wants to close parts of the internet, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were at odds as to how far the NSA should be allowed to go. Cruz was adamant he did the right thing in supporting a vote in the Senate to implement the USA Freedom Act, to end “the federal government’s... 

A Russian missile submarine has successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), dubbed the “Sineva” in the Barents Sea in the latest of a series of tests of the country’s nuclear weapons arsenal, the Defense Ministry said. “Today, the crew of Captain Dmitry Zelikov on the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Verkhoturye (NATO: Delta IV) of the Northern Fleet made... 

Well this is cute. Remember the Muslim convert who stood outside Parliament last week, with a sign asking people if they were brave enough to hug him since wasn’t a terrorist? Yeah, he’s a terrorist. He’s facing jail time for threatening to blow up a MP’s house. No, seriously… Craig Wallace used the sign as Stop The War protesters came to Westminster for the vote on military action in... 

One of the most baffling aspects of Donald Trump’s lead in the Republican presidential primaries is his unflinching habit of insulting huge segments of the population. Add another group to that list, as the billionaire spent Thursday voicing Jewish stereotypes in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Through one comment or another, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has alienated... 

Activist prankster Mark Dice hit the strip in San Diego once again this week to expose how lefty Americans will agree with anything so long as they think Hillary Clinton is behind it. This week, Dice sold the sheep members of the public on the idea that one of Hillary’s primary campaign promises is to lower the standard of living, and asked if they think it is a good campaign platform to run on. “I... 

Not only is the Obama White House offended by Donald Trump’s political stance, it also doesn’t like his hair. “The Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin-of-history-like quality to it, from the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies to even the fake hair. The whole carnival-barker routine that we’ve seen for some time now,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said on Tuesday. Earnest... 

Reminding us of the lesson of Dave in “2001: A Space Odyssey”, never trust the onboard computer. A Florida driver got shopped to the police by her own car after she left the scene of an accident in Port Saint Lucie. Cathy Bernstein’s Ford Focus has the sometimes-useful, always-creepy 911 Assist feature which sends the car’s location to authorities and uses your phone to connect... 

A close friend of Nicholas Thalasinos, one of the victims of the San Bernardino shooting, said that gunman Sayed Farook had threatened to kill Thalasinos because he was Jewish and asserted that “Islam will rule the world.” CV Claverie posted the following Facebook message on Thursday evening; “The islamic terrorist who took the Life of my friend & bro in Christ, Nicholas Thalasinos, on... 

An image taken at the Macedonian border shows Muslim migrants holding up a banner which reads “open or die” before they proceeded to attack police with stones, according to reports. Slovenske Novice featured the image, explaining that 200 migrants attempted to break through a wire fence during a confrontation with police and border guards. “Some protesters threw stones at police, while others...