Month: December 2019

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president, faces a formidable test as he tries to negotiate an end to the war with Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine at a summit with Vladimir Putin in Paris on Monday. Few expect a breakthrough and many Ukrainians fear their comedian-turned-president may give away too much in his first face-to-face talks…

Around 2,000 US Army soldiers have been banned from one of the main streets in the Italian city of Vicenza after a  brawl between soldiers and locals.  The temporary ban, which affects members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade stationed in the city, involves the quaint via  Contra’ Pescherie Vecchie, where two young Vicenza men say…

Click:pro grill The first thing Torbjörn Björk does on being introduced is apologise that the vast majority of Rosana Simson’s new neighbours will be close to sixty years older than her.   "I know we don’t look so old now," the retired airline pilot booms as he greets her in the foyer. "But we won’t be…

Art is said to be in the eye of the beholder, but in the case of David Datuna, it moved rather rapidly from his mouth to his stomach. The object in question was a banana, taped to a wall at a gallery in Miami by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose previous creations include the 18-carat…

President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that North Korea’s Kim Jong-un had "everything" to lose through hostility towards the United States, after Pyongyang said it had carried out a major new weapons test. "Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way,"…

Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke pleaded with his daughter not to report being raped by a Labor MP fearing the case could damage his political career, it is claimed in court documents. The allegations against Mr Hawke, who died in May aged 89, have been made by his second daughter Rosslyn Dillon, 59, in…