Leader of France’s National Front party, Marine Le Pen, has launched a month-long blitz against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – a proposed EU-US treaty, which has been criticized for secretiveness and lack of accountability. “It is vital that the French people know about TTIP’s content and its motivations in order to be able to fight it. Because our fellow countrymen... 

Islamic State is smuggling fighters into Europe, commanding them to disguise themselves as refugees, according to a Libyan government adviser. The militants are reportedly profiting by ‘taxing’ those operating the overcrowded boats. Abdul Basit Haroun told BBC 5 Live Investigates programme that the boats are used “for their [the Islamic State’s] people who they want to send to... 

An ominous report prepared by the Office of the President (OP) circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin’s 8 May purging of top-ranking officers of the Russian Interior Ministry, Emergencies Ministry, the Investigations Committee and the Federal Service for Drug Control were due to these formerly trusted intelligence officials being linked to a radical black Masonic secret police... 

Jaw-dropping images taken in January show the algal bloom lighting up on the coast of Hong Kong. They say all that glitters is not gold. Nowhere is this saying more fitting than in these images of majestic sparkling blue lights on the shore of a Chinese village which are in fact an ominous sign of pollution. The spectacular phenomenon-which has appeared on the shores of Dalian City in east China’s... 

A new study has shown that early treatment for advanced prostate cancer with a chemotherapy drug can increase the lives of patients. Experts and campaigners have hailed the scientific breakthrough after the findings were announced following the results from trials in Britain and Switzerland. Around 40,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United Kingdom every year whilst more than 11,000... 

China is fast refurbishing its arsenal of silo-based long-range ballistic missiles to carry multiple independently targetable warheads, defense experts say. The move comes decades after Beijing acquired the technology, indicating a strategy change. It has been speculated on for years that the Chinese military is upgrading some of its bigger ICBMs with Multiple Independently-targeted Reentry Vehicle... 

At least 19 tornadoes have struck the mid-US this weekend damaging homes and causing blackouts, according to weather channels. The worst affected states are Oklahoma and Texas, which were hit by hail and destructive storms. Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Iowa and Louisiana have all witnessed the wayward and harsh whims of May’s weather. A tornado touched down near... 

Saudi Arabia’s nuclear medium-range ballistic DF-3A missiles in a military parade. Saudi Arabia has made a “strategic decision” to purchase “off-the-shelf” nuclear weapons from Pakistan, a US official says. “There has been a long-standing agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward,” British newspaper Sunday... 

Noise heard across the globe for nearly a DECADE – but nobody has an explanation. A mysterious noise from the sky is continuing to baffle people all over the world, as well as giving those who hear it sleepless nights. Sounding like a trumpet or a collective from a brass section of an orchestra, a selection of videos shot from the Canada to Ukraine, via the U.S., Germany and Belarus show strange... 

Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship, Moskva, leaving the port of Sevastopol for the joint Russia-China exercises in the Mediterranean. Russia and China have kicked off joint war games under the name of “Sea Cooperation – 2015” in the Mediterranean Sea, Russian Defense Ministry says. “The active phase of the exercises will be held in the Mediterranean between May 17 and 21. About 10 warships from... 

New Zealand is bracing for Cyclone Pam, with flooding and power outages already underway. Some areas declared a state of emergency and locals are being evacuated. Strong winds are reported, as devastation in Vanuatu is fresh on everyone’s minds. One of the first areas to declare a state of emergency was the Chatham Islands, southeast of the two main islands of New Zealand. Over 40 people have already... 

As NASA’s Pluto probe nears the planet, it managed to grab some spectacular photos of its small moons for the first time. The New Horizons spacecraft is now in position to view the entire Pluto family. “Detecting these tiny moons from a distance of more than 55 million miles is amazing, and a credit to the team that built our LORRI long-range camera and John Spencer’s team of moon and ring hunters,”... 

A Kentucky sheriff speaking on the record went public this week with a statement that showed how far this country has gone into racial confusion. He told a news conference he was glad a man his deputies shot was white, according to a local ABC affiliate. The startling statement came when the Bardstown, Ky., police chief, a representative from the Kentucky State Police and Nelson County Sheriff Ed... 

The award-winning film director believes that the next world conflict could start when the Pentagon decides to bomb the RT TV channel. World War Three will break out when the US finally tires of the RT TV channel, and decides to bomb it; in retaliation, Russia will destroy CNN, writes film director Emir Kusturica, in an article published on Thursday. “Everything is different to how it was during... 

First democratically-elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, has been sentenced to death on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets to Qatar and escaping from prison during the country’s revolution against long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The sentence was issued on Saturday in the capital of Cairo...