Each year hundreds of empty parked cars are set alight by youths in France, in a misguided New Years celebration. For the first time in years the numbers were released by the country’s Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, who said 1193 vehicles were burned.
For the past six years comedian Kathy Griffin has become known for her continuous racy jokes and outlandish behavior during the CNN live New Year’s eve broadcasts. But some fear she might have gone too far this time.
Look, don’t go into the city today. It’s a hot mess of confusing road closures and tangled pedestrian crossings for an extended period. All the details are below.
Sorry girls, Hugh Hefner is off the market again! The Playboy boss married former playmate Crystal Harris in a small ceremony at the playboy mansion in Los Angeles on New Year’s eve. This after Harris called off their previous wedding only five days before the ceremony in December 2011.
Last week we reported on Prince Harry’s first kills in Afghanistan. It is believed that he took the lives of Taliban militants last October when his unit’s Apache helicopter came to the rescue of another patrol unit under attack.
We said goodbye to 2012 earlier this week, and what an exciting year it was! From Barack Obama’s election victory, to the antics of Honey Boo Boo – we experienced it all!
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently released its Better Life Index for 2013. The index looks at 11 categories of life that make up a country’s well-being, including health, environment, education, civic engagement, work-life balance and life satisfaction. 10) United Kingdom People walk through the More London office space against the backdrop […]
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It is generally considered that Spain’s Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad (Spanish Christmas Lottery) is the world’s largest lottery and has the largest first prize jackpot. In 2012, the main jackpot was €720 million (US$941.8 million). The total prize pool in 2012 was €2.52 billion (US$3.297 billion). The 2011 main jackpot of €720 million was paid […]
The New York Times has once again compiled their annual video montage, featuring a sampling of songs by artists who died during 2012.
“Pretty cute, but awkwardly dressed”. That is how the average Mac female user is being described, according to a tech start-up who claims to have compiled the profile using data sourced from 1,1 million different Facebook profiles.
A passenger airliner has careered off the runway at a Russian airport and crashed onto a nearby highway while landing on Saturday. The impact also caused the plane to break into pieces and catch fire. Five people died in the incident.
Double Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah has revealed that he was detained by American border officials on suspicion of being a terrorist when trying to enter the country for Christmas.
Those who claimed that Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, was faking her concussion to avoid testifying about Benghazi must feel like real tits now, as the 65 year old was admitted to a New York hospital on Sunday with a blood clot.
The 2oceansvibe calendar (right of your page) is actually just a MyBirdi calendar. MyBirdi let’s you Tweet your sale/event/special/gig without worrying about people missing that info. Because if you include @mybirdi in the tweet, then it gets saved on the chosen date in the MyBirdi calendar. Read on to see how.
To get a feel for how many guns are in America you just have to look to Los Angeles where in an attempt to reduce the amount of weaponry the police are buying them back from the public.
Our newest 2oceansVibe Boss Hall of Fame discovery hails from Khulna, Bangladesh.
Yesterday South Africans were shocked to hear that President Jacob Zuma thinks that buying pets are part of “white culture.” He added that people who love dogs more than people have “a lack of humanity”.
Photo-sharing website Instagram has released a photo compilation of some of their top 10 biggest events of 2012. It was selected from all the images uploaded this year by their more than 100 million users.
A 33-ton shark aquarium burst open in a Shanghai shopping centre earlier this month. The incident caused injuries to eight shoppers and seven security staff due to the falling glass and debris as the tank shattered. Three sharks and several turtles also died.
As US gun laws come under the spotlight after the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut another issue is receiving press, that of weapon manufacturers using games such as Medal Of Honor to market their wares.
According to Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of the German Catholic Church he would have been. The Son of God would have retweeted, liked and pinned his love for you apparently. The Archbishop said nothing about whether Jesus Christ would have used Google plus or not.
Have you ever wondered how Santa manages to distribute all the world’s Christmas presents so efficiently every year? Especially considering that there are 760 million Christian children in the world alone?
Good news! Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital last night, according the Presidency’s Mac Maharaj. Madiba will now undergo home-based high care at his Houghton home until he recovers fully.
Earlier this week we reported on a petition that was started in the US – aiming to kick CNN host Piers Morgan out of America. The number of signatures on that list has since grown from 30 000 to more than 70 000!
Randi Zuckerberg is the older sister of Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg. She is also the social network’s former marketing director. But on Christmas Day she got burned by Facebook’s privacy settings just like the rest of us.
Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher, in the adaptation of One Shot, a novel by Lee Child, in which ex-military hero, Jack Reacher, becomes the lead investigator in a multiple shooting homicide after the prime suspect of an “open and shut” case calls for the drifter by name.
Earlier this year we showed you pictures of Venus – Steve Jobs’s unique, self-designed yacht recently that made its first public appearance in the Dutch city of Aalsmeer. Sadly Jobs never got to use the yacht before his death.
Swaziland has banned women from wearing miniskirts, low-rise jeans, and tanktops, saying these items of clothing provoke rape. Those who break the law will face a six-month jail term under the ban, which invokes a colonial criminal act dating back to 1889.
Following this month’s massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, CNN host Piers Morgan has called for tighter gun control measures. But instead of a pat on the back for what appears to be a pretty obvious statement, thousands of Americans have now signed a petition calling for Piers Morgan to be deported over his statements.