Video shot by a member of the Spanish musical group Amparanoia shows the smoke and flames of a forest fire blocking the motorway 49 miles south of the city of Ourense in northern Spain. The video, shot Aug. 3, shows the band being forced to stop as flames licked across the roadway. Band members are […]

U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter and informal advisor, Ivanka Trump, met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for lunch at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday (July 28) amid a push by Trump to slash funding for the world body. Ivanka Trump is seen as an increasingly important influence on her father and her […]

George Clooney said he feels compelled to sue over paparazzi photos of his recently born twins. Clooney said on July 28 that he would sue the French magazine Voici over images they published of Ella and Alexander, his infant daughter and son with wife Amal Clooney. “Over the last week photographers from Voici magazine scaled […]

Hundreds of people turned out to bid a tearful farewell to Cena the military dog. Cena had to be euthanized for his untreatable cancer. Cena was carried in a wheeled cart to the USS LST 393, a museum ship in Muskegon, Michigan. On board, he was euthanized. Then he was carried back out in a […]

An Iranian man, possibly scheduled for deportation, set himself on fire outside Sydney, Australia’s Department of Immigration. The 37-year-old man sat outside the building and poured gasoline on himself while shouting, “I want to stay!” Police were summoned and spent about 10 minutes trying to calm the man. Despite their best efforts, they could not […]

What do you do when you open your front door and find a 6-foot-long wild alligator on the front step? If you live in Boynton Beach, Florida, you call Officer Alfredo Vargas—and get ready to enjoy the show. Vargas answered a call in the Hunter’s Run subdivision on July 10. When he arrived at the […]

VR World NYC is the 1980s video arcade projected into the future. CEO Yasser Ghanchi has converted a four floor building in Midtown Manhattan into the Western Hemisphere’s largest virtual reality entertainment space. VR World features 50 active, passive, and interactive virtual reality experiences, spanning the gamut from interactive art and music to science and […]

City life can be crazy, and New York City living is as hectic as it gets. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if someone could deliver a dose of calm right to your doorstep? Or, like a food truck delivering exotic cuisine, bring some inner peace right to your neighborhood? Kristin Westbrook thought so. That is why she started […]

A U.S. Navy patrol craft fired warning shots past an Iranian naval vessel in the Persian Gulf on July 25. According to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the U.S. Navy patrol boat, the Thunderbolt, was patrolling with several Coast Guard ships. This group was approached by what appeared to be […]

A car bomb detonated at a military checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, killing seven civilians including two children. The entire incident including the explosion was captured on closed-circuit television. Watch the full video below article. In the video a car approaches an army checkpoint outside the city of Arish, capital of North Sinai province. Though it […]