Three Brazilians marry each other, making a “thruple”
A cake for a thruple’s wedding. Photocredit: Funny Potato The background Three people in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo have managed to tie the knot – with each other. A public notary, Claudia do...
View ArticleReverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the ‘Moonies’, dies at 92 at
Moonies mass wedding The background Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, has died in South Korea from complications relating to pneumonia at the age of 92. Moon, whose followers...
View ArticleRussian businessman fakes own death to propose to girlfriend; world despairs
Marriage: Not just about the YouTube hits. Photo credit: Goran Ratković The background Asking someone to share the rest of their life with you is a serious business. So what better way to propose...
View ArticleKilling of British family in French Alps causes shock around the world
Lake Annecy: Killings in French idyll The background French police are investigating after four people were killed in the Alps. Three members of a British family holidaying near Lake Annecy in France,...
View ArticleInnocence of Muslims: The amateur film that sparked violent protests across...
Screen shot of Innocence of Muslims, the film causing outrage across the Middle East and North Africa. The background Four Americans were killed during an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi,...
View ArticleWhat’s behind the Middle East riots?
Screen shot of Innocence of Muslims, the film causing outrage across the Middle East and North Africa. The background US interests across the world have come under attack by protestors, leaving US...
View ArticleDid Jesus have a wife?
Jesus Christ: Wedded? The background Did Jesus Christ have a wife? A professor at Harvard, Karen King, thinks so. She’s revealed a Coptic scripture from the 4th century in which the words: “Jesus said...
View Article‘Green-on-Blue’ attacks in Afghanistan ignite fierce debate over NATO’s...
Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Afghanistan activity. Photo Credit: Flickr The background This week, British soldiers Sergent Gareth Thursby and Private Thomas Wroe became the...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoons put France on high security
The front page of Charlie Hebdo The background The world is still reeling from the many protests in Muslim countries stemming from a film, Innocence of Muslims, which portrays the prophet Mohammed as...
View ArticleAttack on US embassy in Benghazi was by terrorists, says White House
The Libyan flag. Photo credit: Maggie Osama The background The White House has for the first time called the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11th 2012, which killed four Americans,...
View ArticleChina and Japan’s dispute over the Senkaku islands threatens to become an...
Anti-Japanese Protests as a result of the dispute. Photo Credit: Flickr. The background The Senkaku Islands, three seemingly inconspicuous, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, are at the centre...
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