A dating site scammer is facing up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to swindling £2.2 million ($2.8 million) from a Holocaust survivor. Peaches Stergo, 36, “lived a life of luxury” thanks to the enormous cash sum she swindled out of
The Israeli military launched rare airstrikes into Lebanon early Friday morning, just hours after it struck opposition targets in the Gaza Strip. Both series of attacks were in retaliation after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel. Later, another volley
The Israeli Defense Forces launched an airstrike on a Hamas weapons facility on Wednesday, following a series of back-and-forth agitations between Israeli officials and Palestinians earlier in the day, officials said. “Fighter jets recently attacked a site for the production of weapons
Tourists in Rome checking out the Pantheon, Italy’s most-visited cultural site, will soon be charged a $5.28 entrance fee under an agreement signed Thursday by Italian culture and church officials. Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said the move was a matter of “good
Russia reached the spot where a US MQ-9 drone crashed after colliding with a Russian Su-27 fighter within hours. But the rush to recover debris from the Black Sea was likely pointless, according to senior members of the US government. One defence official said:
Russian vessels have already arrived at the drone crash site in the Black Sea, a U.S. defense official tells Fox News. Almost immediately after the MQ-9 drone was clipped by a Su-27 fighter jet and downed into the water, Russia sent ships
Some 2.5 tons of natural uranium have gone missing from a non-governmental site in Libya, according to a confidential statement from the United Nation’s International Atomic Agency. U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors made the discovery while carrying out an inspection that was postponed
German investigators said they took down a major online money laundering operation on Wednesday, seizing the Germany-based server infrastructure of a platform that dealt in ill-gotten cryptocurrency. Bitcoin currently worth about $47 million and roughly seven terabytes of data were secured as
Kazakhstan has seized control of Russian assets at the Baikonur spaceport, including the property of Vladimir Putin’s successor to the Soviet space programme, Roscosmos. The central Asian country’s bailiff agency has taken over the Center for the Operation of Terrestrial Space Infrastructure
Comment on this story Comment Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered what appears to be a smiling ancient Sphinx. With deep sandy eyes and a wide smirk, the statue is probably modeled on the Roman emperor Claudius, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and