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China’s #MeToo Movement has caught momentum recently, with stories of sexual abuse and harassment emerging concerning powerful figures in the media and non-profit sectors.  More than 10 such men are looking at such charges, as women, and even other men, have been empowered by the stories of others, and have one by one come forward […]

Are they or aren’t they? Rumors that Indian actress and beauty queen Priyanka Chopra and US singer and actor Nick Jonas are engaged are flying around as Ms. Chopra was seen in Delhi hiding a diamond ring from the paparazzi in New Delhi on Monday, August 6. Perhaps the couple, who only started dating a […]

One of the best basketball players in history has also become a great philanthropist in his own community. Basketball star LeBron James has opened a school called “I Promise” in Akron, Ohio, where he was born and raised by a single mother. He went to live with a family of a local athletic coach, who […]

A DePaul University School of Music student from Shanghai, China was kicked off of an American Airlines flight out of Miami after she checked in online for both herself and her cello. Jay Tang said his wife Jingjing Hu was sitting in her seat on the American Airlines flight 2457 from Miami International Airport to […]

President Donald Trump absolved himself from colluding with the Russians during the 2016 Presidential Election and has shifted the blame to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. He said in a tweet on Monday that “collusion with Russia was very real”, but that it involved the Democrats. He demanded a new federal investigation of Hillary Clinton […]

A shelter for vulnerable girls in Bihar, India has garnered media attention after police arrested the shelter-owner for repeatedly raping almost 40 his residents. The girls, between the ages of 7 and 14, said that they were tortured, starved, injected with drugs, and raped almost every night. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) court […]

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma explains in his book “ALIBABA: The House That Jack Ma Built,” how his policy of not hiring the best candidates for a job during its early days eventually paid off for him. The book, written by China-based investment adviser Duncan Clark in 2016, says how Ma had an unflattering opinion of those […]

A Facebook Page which claims that popular US movie star Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is giving away $100 million each to 100 lucky winners is fake. The Page ‘promises’ users who share the viral video that all they have to do win the $1 million prize money is to “like, share and comment” on the video. […]

An American was dragged out of an airplane for causing a major disturbance. According to Korean Air, around 2 pm on July 27, the flight from Incheon International Airport to San Francisco was delayed for an hour and 40 minutes due to a 30-year-old American woman. The woman who originally booked an economy seat, sat […]

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington. McCarrick is a prominent U.S. cardinal who is accused of sexually abusing a teenager nearly 50 years ago, the Vatican said on 28 July. McCarrick, 88, was removed from the ministry in June after a review board found there was “credible” […]

The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday released a graphic bodycam video which showed the cops fatally shooting a knife-wielding gang member and the woman he was holding hostage with the blade to her throat. LAPD Chief Michael Moore told reporters at a news conference that 18 rounds were fired by his officers during the […]

A man involved in the common modus operandi of people who ask for money in Chinese subways has been exposed to end up with thousands of dollars from attractive women commuters. Many people in subways have been approached by others asking for ten yuan, saying they need that amount for a ticket to go home. […]

The entire police force in a small U.S. town of Blandford walked off their jobs on Monday. Blandford is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts with a population of 1,233 residents. The officers pointed to low wages, “cruisers that don’t work,” and bullet proof vests that do not fit, as some of the reasons for their […]

‘I would certainly meet with Iran if they wanted to meet,’ Trump said during a joint news conference at the White House alongside Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. ‘I do believe that they will probably end up wanting to meet. I’m ready to meet whenever they want to,’ he said. ‘No preconditions,’ he added. ‘They […]

A 69-year-old woman from Arkansas was arrested and charged with capital murder after she admitted that she shot and killed her 65-year-old husband for purchasing porn. The accused, Patricia Hill, revealed that she arrived home last Saturday and confronted her husband over an order of pornography he had made at their home’s utility shed. Patricia […]