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Mikhail Metzel/AP “I’d burn them all alive in ovens,” Ivan Okhlobystin says of gay people, according to a Russian website. A leading Russian actor, who was formally a priest, has called for gay people to be burned alive in ovens. Ivan Okhlobystin, who stars in the country’s version of hit medical comedy “Scrubs,” says children – he is a father ...

Itumeleng English/AP Thamsanqa Jantjie, a father of four, is accused of being a fake sign language interpreter after, experts say, his gestures during the Nelson Mandela memorial service were meaningless.  The “fake” sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service who blamed a poor performance on visions of angels said he trained for two years at a U.K. university. But ...

Dusan Vranic/AP Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, two of the holiest sites for for Jews and Muslims, were covered in snow after a rare snowstorm blanketed Jerusalem on Friday. A snowstorm of rare intensity blanketed the Jerusalem area and parts of the occupied West Bank on Friday, choking off the city and stranding hundreds in vehicles on ...

YONHAP/REUTERS A still image taken from North Korea’s state-run KRT television footage and released by Yonhap December 9, 2013, shows Jang Song Thaek being forcibly removed by uniformed personnel from a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang. PYONGYANG,North Korea — North Korea on Friday announced the execution of ...

Matt Dunham/AP South Africa’s deaf federation said this interpreter (seen here with President Obama after his speech at the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela) was a fake. He has reportedly been identified as Thami Jantjie. A fake sign language interpreter who flapped his hands throughout Nelson Mandela’s memorial service will be hearing from authorities soon. The ...

Finish what Nelson Mandela started. That was the message President Obama delivered Tuesday in an electrifying eulogy for Mandela that had the crowd in a South African soccer stadium on its feet and cheering wildly. PHOTOS: NELSON MANDELA MEMORIAL SERVICE “We, too, must act on behalf of justice,” Obama declared over thunderous applause. “We, too, must act on behalf of ...

ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images Despite President Obama ordering all flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of the late Nelson Mandela, South Carolina sheriff Rick Clark refused to comply. Clark said the honor should be reserved to U.S. citizens. The U.S. flag flew high outside a sheriff’s office in South Carolina on Monday in defiance of an order from President ...

nbcmiami.com One person has been found dead and another injured as authorities search for two other Cuban migrants reported missing off Key Biscayne near Miami. One person has died, another was injured and two more are missing after a suspected group of Cuban migrants ran into trouble near Miami while trying to flee the Communist island aboard homemade rafts. A ...

Eskil Ronningsbakken via YouTube Eskil Ronningsbakken perches on his handlebars and RIDES BACKWARD down the mountain. A daredevil cyclist has been caught on camera speeding BACKWARD at 50mph down a slippery mountain road. Eskil Ronningsbakken danced with death as he sped down the snaking half-mile path on Norway’s Trollstigen mountain. RELATED: CITI BIKE IN QUEENS? NOT SOON Eskil Ronningsbakken via ...

Wong Maye-E/AP In this July 27, 2013 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, is followed by his uncle Jang Song Thaek, second from left, and Yang Hyong Sop, left, vice president of the Presidium of North Korea’s parliament, as he tours the newly opened Fatherland Liberation War Museum as part of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of ...