2018 Cadillac XTS V-Sport Tested: Leaves Us Scratching Our Heads

–What It Is: The XTS is a big, plush Cadillac sedan in the old-school tradition, which makes it decidedly out of sync with the American luxury brand’s current push to compete with the best German sports sedans. (Even so, it’s outselling the ATS, CTS, and CT6 and was Caddy’s best-selling passenger car in 2016 and […]

Doll heads covered in red paint left at Israeli migration office in anti-deportation stunt (VIDEO)

A number of severed black mannequin heads smothered in artificial ‘blood’ were brought to the door of Tel Aviv immigration officers on Saturday in what is seen as a protest against the looming deportation of African refugees. The ‘bloodbath’ scene outside the Tel Aviv office of the Population, Immigration, and Border Authority (PIBA) included notes […]

Russia sanctions a ‘dead horse,’ seriously damaged economy – German regional heads

Anti-Russian sanctions have achieved nothing other than placing a significant burden on the German economy, prime ministers of two German federal states have argued, calling on fellow regional leaders to demand their lifting. The German government should gradually lift sanctions it imposed against Russia over its alleged role in the Ukrainian crisis, Minister President of […]

How Indonesia’s notorious special forces train by drinking snake blood and breaking bricks with their heads

US Department of Defense US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis visited Indonesia on Tuesday to repair ties with the country’s special forces, which committed gross human-rights violations under former Indonesian President Muhammad Suharto.  Mattis was expecting to watch the Indonesian special forces, known as Kopassus, perform a hostage rescue drill — but instead saw them […]

Man convicted for renting out diseased human heads cut with chainsaws

Enlarge (credit: JD Hancock / Flickr) A jury found body broker Arthur Rathburn guilty on Monday of illegally renting out diseased human body parts and heads to unwitting doctors. He faces up to 20 years in prison for eight crimes, including wire fraud and illegally transporting hazardous materials. Federal prosecutors alleged that from January 2007 […]

Waymo heads to Atlanta to test its self-driving cars

Waymo continues to expand the pool of locations where it’s testing its autonomous vehicle tech, and the latest destination is metro Atlanta. The former Google self-driving car company revealed the news on Twitter, noting that it’s expanding considerably its geographic testing footprint now that it’s got fully driverless test vehicles on the road in Phoenix. […]

‘The Death of Stalin’ Trailer: The Creator of ‘Veep’ Heads to Russia

Armando Iannucci, the profane genius responsible for Veep and In the Loop, has already had his way with American and English politics. So naturally, he’s set his sights elsewhere with his latest project, The Death of Stalin. As the title implies, the film takes place in the Soviet Union and tracks what goes down with the nation’s […]

The heads of one of the biggest video game studios have been accused of inappropriate behaviour

Neilson Barnard/Getty Images French publications Le Monde, Canard PC, and Mediapart have separately published reports in which they depict an unhealthy environment at Quantic Dream, a game development studio close to Sony and PlayStation. Anonymous employees mentioned the heads of Quantic Dream, David Cage and Guillaume de Fondaumière, in particular, describing a series of inappropriate […]

TVLine Items: Lost Heads to Hulu, Flash Alum's Amazon Comedy Pilot and More

It’s time to go back to the island. All six seasons of Lost are now available exclusively on Hulu. The ABC drama’s 121 episodes were previously streaming on Netflix. RELATEDThe Flash: Mark Valley Sees Barry as a Soft Target in Murder Trial * Family Guy will air an extended episode with limited commercials on Sunday, […]

Andy Murray pulls out of Australian Open and heads back to UK with hip injury

Murray limped out of Wimbledon in July at the quarter-final stage and missed the US Open at the tail-end of 2017. The Scot took time to recover in hope that he would return Down Under after the turn of the year.  But he was then forced to withdraw from the warm-up tournament, Brisbane International, earlier […]