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Romanian mayor unveils plan to name park after Trump

President Trump has had his name slapped onto grandiose buildings, institutions and golf courses, and his international eponyms are growing.

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Picture this: A raffle offers a Picasso for 100 euros to fund Alzheimer’s research

A raffle in France offers the chance to win a Picasso portrait for a 100-euro ticket

Vietnamese man pleads guilty to possessing protected python parts in Malaysia

A Vietnamese man has pleaded guilty in a Malaysian court to possessing protected wildlife parts without a license

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Abusive husband gets 8 years in Scotland prison for wife's suicide in landmark case

An abusive husband convicted of killing his wife after she jumped to her death has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the first case of its kind in Scotland

Trump ‘reaping bitter fruit’ of thinking Iran intervention as easy as Venezuela, says former diplomat

John Feeley says US president was ‘flush with victory’ of Maduro capture and could make same mistake in CubaDonald Trump is “reaping the bitter fruit” of erroneously thinking that the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, offered a blueprint for toppling the Iranian regime, according to one of the US state department’s most respected former Latin America experts.John Feeley, a Marine helicopter pilot who later served as the US ambassador to Panama, believed Trump had been “flush with the victory from Venezuela” when he made the ill-fated decision to attack Iran in February, leaving a trail of destruction across the Middle East and dealing a hammer blow to the global economy. Continue reading...