The Oscar-winner died “peacefully” at his home in Middleburg, Virginia, on Sunday, his family says. Source link

The group of 34 women and children with family links to Islamic State group have been held in the Roj camp for nearly seven years. Source link

A tribute to Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has marked the first day of the iconic carnival parades in Rio de Janeiro. The samba school Acadêmicos de Niterói traced Lula’s life as a boy growing up in poverty in the Brazilian northeast, to a

One passenger was taken to hospital after the derailment, which police say could have been caused by an avalanche. Source link

A town in northern Italy has started celebrating carnival with its annual Battle of the Oranges where people hurl the fruit at each other for fun. The historic carnival in Ivrea, an old medieval town near Turin, celebrates the legend of Violetta, a miller’s daughter who