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In 1987, workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the world in Pyongyang, North Korea.[2] The frame was finished two years later – a little behind schedule, the structure was supposed to open in 1989. Then in 1992, after the collapse of ally and backer the Soviet Union, work stopped completely on Ryugyong Hotel.[9] Check also: This ...

A schoolboy in Russia won a month living with a porn star as a prize in an online competition. Check also: Police closes a hotel in Swansea were deviants have sex with animals Ruslan Schedrin, 6, was told he qualifies to spend a month in a Moscow hotel with the voluptuous Ekaterina Makarova. He appears delighted about the prize, saying ...

Niamey – Voters in Niger went to the polls on Sunday in an election in which President Mahamadou Issoufou has promised a “knockout” blow to his opponents, one of whom is behind bars on baby-trafficking charges. A vast nation endowed with an abundance of uranium, gold, coal and oil but among the poorest on the planet, Niger is electing a ...

Seven people were shot and killed and several others wounded in Michigan on Saturday night in a series of apparently random public shootings, according to authorities and local media. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety said on its Facebook page that six people had been shot and killed and several others seriously wounded in three shootings in Kalamazoo County, in ...

MANILA – The Philippine Catholic church on Sunday defended boxing hero Manny Pacquiao for his opposition to gay marriage, saying he was only quoting the Bible. But Father Jerome Secillano also said over radio station DZMM that Pacquiao should respect homosexuals and not judge and condemn them after the eight-division world champion last week described them as worse than animals. ...