2016-03-31

Culture news

Nashville rock band The Wild Feathers back in bloom with album number two

Lonely Is a Lifetime sees Tennessee rock band The Wild Feathers come into their own.

31/03/2016

Culture news

Graffiti art comes to life at night in Jerusalem market

A graffiti duo are turning a Jerusalem shuk, and its drab alleyways, into a portrait gallery.

31/03/2016

India

India: deadly flyover collapse kills at least 14

A flyover under construction in Kolkata, India, has collapsed killing at least 14 people. A 100-metre slab of metal and cement crashed onto moving

31/03/2016

Cinema

Murder and comedic mayhem invade Beverly Hills in Meet the Blacks

The film is set in a future America where, every year, there is a 12-hour period during which all crime is legal.

31/03/2016

Serbia

Serbian nationalist Seselj acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity

Serbian politician faced three counts of crimes against humanity and six of war crimes

31/03/2016

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Russia soldiers train for Syria

Footage broadcast on Russian television showed Russian military engineers training with sniffer dogs and specialist equipment near Moscow, in

31/03/2016

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Paris: Sleeping with sharks

Air b&b and the Paris Aquarium are offering competition winners the chance to spend a night underwater sleeping with sharks – a “misunderstood”

31/03/2016

Hungary

Hungary mourns the loss of one its most prominent writers

Imre Kertesz dies at home in Budapest at the age of 86

31/03/2016

United Kingdom

How Spanish trolls tried to sink a British boat competition

31/03/2016

Japan

Ice age given green light: Fukushima activates barrier for radioactive water

An underground ice wall has been activated around Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors, five years after a deadly earthquake and tsunami wreaked

31/03/2016

World News

More US troops for eastern Europe

Strategic concerns mean the Pentagon is beefing up its presence along the line of the cold war Iron Curtain.

31/03/2016

Libya

Libya's unity government arrives in Tripoli despite blockade

UN-backed government defies attempts to keep it out

31/03/2016

Qatar

Qatar under fire again over treatment of World Cup workers

Qatar has come under fire again over the treatment of World Cup workers, alleging systematic abuses including forced labour. Amnesty International’s

31/03/2016

USA

US: Trump rows back after sparking abortion row

US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is no stranger to controversy – and now he has sparked off a spat over abortion. The billionaire

31/03/2016

Greece

Athens protesters chant 'open the borders' ahead of migrant returns

Hundreds of human rights activists, students and migrants have taken to the streets of Athens chanting “open the borders.” The migrants were some of

31/03/2016

Gaza

Palestinians and Arab Israelis mark 40th anniversary of 'Land Day'

Thousands of Palestinians and Israeli Arabs held rallies on Wednesday to mark the 40th anniversary of “Land Day” – when protests against the Israeli

31/03/2016

Spain

Spain's Socialist and Podemos parties set to start coalition talks

Can the leaders of Spain’s Socialist Party and anti-austerity newcomer Podemos finally end the country’s political stalemate? They are set to start

31/03/2016

Lithuania

Protest over milk prices in Lithuania

Low milk prices in Lithuania have triggered a colourful procession by producers, complete with a cow’s skeleton. Thousands of demonstrators turned

31/03/2016

Iraq

Front line view of Mosul offensive as Iraq appeals for help against ISIL

The Iraqi government has appealed for more international help to liberate the country’s second-largest city Mosul from the clutches of the

31/03/2016

Sport

England reach T20 World Cup Final after beating New Zealand

England took on New Zealand in the first semi-final of the T20 World Cup in Delhi. #ENG 79/0 after 8 overs with JasonRoy20 making his first T20

31/03/2016

Romania

Ex-Communist camp commander jailed for crimes against humanity

The ex-commander of a Communist-era Labour camp in Romania has been jailed for 20 years for ‘crimes against humanity’. The camp run by 88-year old

31/03/2016