LOL! Politics has become such a joke nowadays :-D Ava Karabatic, a former Playboy model, reality TV star and artist has thrown her hat in the ring for the 2020 Croatian presidential elections on a broad platform targeting the country’s youth vote. The 31-year-old former model made the announcement via her Instagram account and personal blog. The central tenets of her platform include increasing... 

“Feminism is the cause of declining birth rates in the West, which acts as a scapegoat for mass immigration, and the root of all these problems is the Jew,” Stephan Balliet, the German shooter who attacked a synagogue and a kebab shop in Germany today, said on his live stream of the attack. The attack, which the 27-year-old Balliet streamed lived on Amazon’s Twitch platform, started with the... 

At least 25 people were killed and 15 are missing after Typhoon Hagibis slammed Japan, with flooding covering large areas leaving people surrounded by water. Some half-a-million homes are without power. The typhoon hit Japan’s northeast coast, killing at least 19 people in areas including the Chiba, Gunma, Kanagawa and Fukushima prefectures near Tokyo, according to local media. Some 150 people were... 

The earthquake comes as the country is simultaneously dealing with a powerful typhoon, Hagibis, that is approaching the Kanto region. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Japan at 6:22 p.m. local time (9:22 a.m. GMT) on Saturday with its epicentre off Chiba Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. No tsunami warning has been issued by the authorities so far. There is no official information... 

A paper from computer scientists from the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, found that machines were more likely to flag tweets from black people than white people as offensive: It all boils down to the subtle differences in language. African-American English (AAE), often spoken in urban communities, is peppered with racial slang... 

More than 1.6 million people have been ordered to evacuate as Japan gears up for potentially record breaking wind and rain as Typhoon Hagibis claims its first victim before even making landfall. Winds are set to reach 216km/h (134mph) and trigger floods and landslides when the monster storm barrels into central or eastern Japan on Saturday, the country’s Meteorological Agency has warned. The sky... 

An examination spectacularly failed by all would-be professional surgeons from five universities in South Africa two weeks ago will now be written in an easier multiple-choice format to improve the pass rate: Zach Koto, president of the council of surgeons at the Colleges of Medicine of SA (CMSA), announced at a media briefing held in Joburg on Tuesday that the multiple-choice format will be used,... 

Last week, we reported that The Swedish Board of Education, Skolverket, planned to erase history elements older than the year 1700 from Swedish history classes. Now, after intense criticism, the Board withdrawals its plans. “The Board of Education can observe that there is a lack of support for our suggestion and therefore, we can already now before the inquiry time has expired, establish that the... 

Because the problems caused by the proliferation of rats in the Netherlands will continue to worsen considerably in the coming years, according to Bastiaan Meerburg, a researcher at Wageningen University, a large-scale study into the behavior of these rodents, so that a potential plague can be effectively avoided: “I expect that the rat plague will really get a lot worse“, he said to the newspaper.... 

A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday said that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man over his claims that a drug manufactured by the US firm caused him to grow breasts. The verdict in favor of Nicholas Murray, 26, came first in one of thousands of Risperdal cases pending in Pennsylvania. Murray, like other male plaintiffs in the mass tort litigation over Risperdal,... 

A new study out of Denmark to be published in the Annual Review of Political Science concludes that the mantra ‘diversity is our strength’ is, in fact, the exact opposite of reality, that ethnically diverse societies become weak and atomized: Does ethnic diversity erode social trust? Continued immigration and corresponding growing ethnic diversity have prompted this essential question for modern... 

Parents of students of a London primary school are complaining that it has introduced gender-neutral toilets without warning and now some girls are too embarrassed to use the facilities, which may potentially harm their health. The Deanesfield Primary School in western London teaches children aged 4-11. When the summer break ended in September, parents of pupils were surprised to find that toilets... 

Hundreds of young transgender people are seeking help to return to their original biological sex, according to reports. This comes after a damning Food and Drug Administration report that 6,000 children have died as a result of hormone blocking drugs since 2012. 28-year-old female-to-male transgender Charlie Evans, who detransitioned after 10 years identifying as a male, launched The Detransition... 

A whopping 5,253 tons of assorted chemicals, mainly oil and fuel additives, have been destroyed in a major blaze at a chemical plant in Rouen that prompted fears of potential health harm and environmental damage last week. The detailed report on what exactly burned in the September 26 incident at the plant, operated by US multinational chemical firm Lubrizol, was released by local administration on... 

When is the division of the world going to end? Why do the Americans consider themselves victors in the Cold War and no longer recognize the outcome of World War II? Why will they have to return to the global legal field? State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fedorov said in an interview with Pravda.Ru editor-in-chief Inna Novikova that the Americans have no more energy for another world war. “Mr. Fedorov,...