Tech leaders dish on how asinine it is to try to describe their companies, products, and worth to Congress

Jantakon Kokthong/EyeEm/Getty; Christian Offenberg/EyeEm/Getty; Anna Kim/Insider Tech companies are worried an aging Congress can't meet or even understand their demands. Some members of Congress said age plays no factor in their regulatory abilities. Younger members of Congress are beginning to take the lead in conversations on tech issues. Read more from Insider's "Red, White, and […]

‘Suffocating, a scary scene’: AirAsia passengers describe icy fog-filled plane (VIDEO)

AirAsia India passengers have accused the airline of blasting them with icy air conditioning in an effort to force them off a delayed flight after spending hours on the tarmac. The domestic flight from Kolkata to Bagdogra was delayed for more than four hours on Wednesday. Passengers were kept on the aircraft on the runway […]

DESCRIBE THE NIGHT: Review by Michael Arditti

Although based on a film by the master of nordic angst, Ingmar Bergman, and with the bulk of its second act taking place at night, this is Sondheim’s sunniest musical. It casts an affectionate eye on three lovelorn couples: a celebrated actress and a sexually frustrated lawyer; the lawyer’s virgin bride and his theology student […]

Cruise from HELL: Couple describe thinking they would 'die' as ship is caught in cyclone

If you are a regular cruise holiday-goer, then Channel 4 documentary ‘Cruises From Hell’ would have made horrifying viewing. The programme met with holidaymakers who had been caught up in horrifying experiences on their cruise trips. One couple detailed the moment their cruise liner was caught up in a bomb cyclone on their way back […]

Lavrov has ‘no regular terms’ to describe US threat to attack Syrian troops

The US is trying to cover up its own failure to force armed groups in Syria to de-escalate violence as it blames Russia and Iran for ongoing hostilities in Eastern Ghouta, the Russian foreign minister has said. Sergey Lavrov was referring to accusations voiced by US Representative at the UN Nikki Haley, who said the […]

Passengers Describe Nightmare as Norwegian Cruise Ship Sailed Into Bomb Cyclone

Passengers Describe Nightmare as Cruise Sailed Into Bomb Cyclone Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not […]

‘People didn’t know where to go’: Witnesses describe confusion, lockdowns in Las Vegas mass shooting

Panic-stricken people trying to escape the fenced-off festival grounds in Las Vegas as a hail of bullets rained down from an unknown direction, and hotels locking out frantic survivors out of safety concerns, were some of the scenes described by eyewitnesses to RT. Follow RT’s LIVE UPDATES Abdi, an eyewitness to the massacre, told RT […]

Diana and I review: A dramatic attempt to describe the impact of Princess Diana’s death

BBC Diana and I (BBC2) is a dramatic attempt to describe the impact of Princess Diana’s death The landlord said, “Don’t do no hippy colours, will you?” and left me to it.  I went for Light Stone, or at least, I went for what it said on the cheapest tin I could find.  After five […]

‘Regular day in Sochi’: Witnesses describe chilling plane landing through tornadoes (VIDEOS)

Sochi was transformed into a scene from an Armageddon movie when a dozen tornadoes descended on the Black Sea resort. But instead of a feeling of imminent doom, an eyewitness who filmed 3 waterspouts next to her plane, noted that no one panicked. Footage of the Sochi’s tornadoes quickly made international headlines. One especially harrowing […]

Female North Korean soldiers describe horrific sexual abuse from superior officers

Digital Soju TV North Korea’s awful record of human rights violations may place it as the worst regime in the world in how it treats its people, but first-hand tales of the abuses rarely slip the secretive country’s borders. While oppression in North Korea knows no bounds, a video from South Korean Digitalsoju TV shows how […]