Pierre Bertrand

World News

Fake Justin Bieber charged with more than 900 child sex offences

Police in Australia Justin Bieber fans be extra vigilant online after charging a man for posing as the singer and soliciting explicit images

9 March 2017

USA

On International Women's Day, a bronzed girl defies Wall Street bull

A Wall Street company installed a bronze statuette of a primary-school aged girl defiantly facing New York City's famous bull monument

8 March 2017

USA

WikiLeaks publishes Vault 7 CIA files, what do they reveal?

WikiLeaks published internal CIA communications about hacking techniques its uses to access iPhones, Android and Microsoft Windows devices

8 March 2017

USA

US housing secretary Carson compares slaves to immigrants

Ben Carson, President Trump's secretary for housing and urban development, has sparked outrage for comparing US African slaves to “immigrants”

7 March 2017

Russia

Moscow to raze more than 10 percent of its housing

The city of Moscow will undergo a major facelift under a plan by mayor Sergei Sobyanin to modernise the housing of at least 1.6 million people

7 March 2017

World News

Trump slump as Donald’s travel ban 'causes travel meltdown'

US President Donald Trump has had a disruptive influence on world travel which could worsen as he prepares a revised executive order

6 March 2017

Russia

Russian lawmaker proposes to legalise football hooliganism

A leading politician in Russia's legislative assembly has proposed turning behaviour which has plagued football in Europe into a sport of its own

6 March 2017

World News

Ukraine moves one step closer to EU visa-free travel

The European Parliament has reached an informal agreement to grant Ukrainians visa-free travel to the European Union

3 March 2017

World News

EU Parliament moves to end visa-free travel for Americans

The European Parliament has taken the first step in potentially revoking visa-free travel of Americans to the European Union

3 March 2017

United Arab Emirates

Social media goes "Gigi" for Hadid cover on Vogue Arabia

American lifestyle and fashion magazine Vogue this week launched its first-ever Arabic issue and fashion supermodel Gigi Hadid features on its cover

2 March 2017

Spain

Madrid police impound Spanish anti-transgender "bus of shame"

Spanish officials impounded a bright orange and white bus emblazoned with anti-transgender messages seen circulating throughout the Spanish capital.

1 March 2017

France

EU parliament to consider stripping Le Pen of immunity

EU parliamentarians agreed to suspend, in a preliminary vote, Marine Le Pen's immunity as police seek to investigate violent ISIL images on Twitter.

28 February 2017

USA

Trump's Conway causes controversy for "disrespectful" White House picture

US Presidential advisor Kellyann Conway has sparked outrage and online ridicule this week -- not for something she said

28 February 2017

Malaysia

What is VX, the world's deadliest nerve agent use by North Korea?

Malaysian police revealed they've discovered traces of a highly toxic nerve agent on the face of Kim Jong-Nam, who was murdered earlier in February

24 February 2017

France

Europe baffled by "recent release" of radioactive Iodine-131

Trace amounts of radioactive Iodine-131 have been detected in seven countries ranging from Norway to Spain, which has baffled European authorities

23 February 2017

Czech Republic

Wild Czech boars go nuclear eating mushrooms

Boars in the Czech Republic are radioactive. They're eating radioactive mushrooms and its contaminating the local delicacy meat

22 February 2017

World News

Eastern EU countries cry foul over "garbage can" food quality

Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic join forces in critiquing food companies they accuse of selling inferior foods compared to richer EU nations

22 February 2017

Netherlands

Unilever rejects US Kraft Heinz merger deal

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever said it has rejected a €134 billion merger offer from US food group Kraft Heinz

17 February 2017

United Kingdom

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters considers performing "The Wall" on US-Mexico border

Roger Waters, the co-founder of musical rock n' roll group Pink Floyd, said the group's cult album is more relevant now than ever before

16 February 2017

USA

USA : "Day Without Immigrants" a country-wide strike

Businesses close their doors in solidarity as thousands strike across US cities protesting President Donald Trump's hard stance on immigration

16 February 2017