Month: March 2021

Notre Dame Cathedral was undergoing $6.8 million in renovations on the church’s spire and its 250 tons of lead when a massive fire engulfed the Paris landmark on Monday. Paris police said the cause of the blaze at the 12th-century cathedral was unknown, but the fire was “potentially linked” to the renovation work being carried…

A car, motorbikes and multiple barricades were ablaze in eastern Paris Saturday as a yellow vest protest degenerated into scattered violence. The smell of tear gas mixed with black smoke choked the air.  Paris firefighters battled multiple small but impressive fires around the Place de la Republique. Reporters saw a car and motorbikes on fire…

source: TMZ.com, Wrestling Observer — Former WWE Diva Stacy Keibler lobbied hard to do a topless scene in the movie Mercy, an upcoming film by writer Scott Caan, but director Patrick Hoelck nixed the idea. Hoelck soon changed his mind and okayed the scene with Keibler, but Keibler nixed the idea herself. Keibler was then…

London — Women’s rights activists and groups that support victims of sexual assault say a practice by U.K. police of requesting blanket access to the personal data of people who report crimes is making victims feel like they have to choose between seeking justice, and maintaining their privacy. The release of a new version of the…

A boat carrying up to 70 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa has sunk in the Mediterranean, leaving at least three people dead and dozens missing, Tunisian officials said Friday. The bodies of three people who drowned in the accident were found Friday, a spokesman for the Tunisian defense ministry said, adding the boat left Zwara on…

Berlin — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg called on world leaders Tuesday to acknowledge the seriousness of global warming and that not enough is being done to curb it. Speaking at a conference in the Austrian capital, Vienna, Thunberg suggested it was wrong to portray the worldwide shift necessary to rein in climate change as “primarily…

Researchers studying the fossils of an extinct 3-million-year-old mouse made what they called “a major scientific breakthrough” in determining the animal’s fur color. The international team, led by researchers from the University of Manchester, found chemical traces of red pigment in a fossil for the first time ever. The researchers detected the red pigmentation in…

The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes. Advertisement Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke…

This week’s episode of NXT won’t feature just one major announcement. During tonight’s Raw, WWE hyped that NXT general manager William Regal will make two “game-changing announcements” on NXT this Wednesday. It was said that the announcements will continue NXT’s trend of making history in WWE. One of the announcements figures to be related to the…

Beijing – China issued a travel warning for the U.S. on Tuesday, saying Chinese visitors have been interrogated, interviewed and subjected to other forms of what it called harassment by U.S. law enforcement agencies. The warning urges Chinese citizens and Chinese-funded bodies in the U.S. to step up their safety awareness and preventative measures and…