Miscellaneous

Christopher Cole, an English football fun, was jailed for 10 years for pushing David Pietraszek, a Polish builder, onto the train tracks of the London Underground after mistakenly believing he was Russian.

The incident happened on June 9, 2016 after the 2016 UEFA European Championship match between Russia and England when following Russia’s 1-1 draw with England, Russian fans broke into the English fun area at Marseille’s Stade Velodrome. After the match the violence poured onto the streets of Marseille.

The epic explosion that took place in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province, leveled 19 seven to 12-story structures in a controlled demolition. According to Jia Yongsheng, general director of the demolition, ome 5 tons of explosives distributed in 120,000 locations were used in the controlled blast, which covered an area of over 15 hectares.

“The demolition effect was quite ideal. The explosion didn’t affect the light rail and public facilities around the blasted buildings. There was no damage and adverse effects of blasting,” said Jia.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ahead of his visit to Japan later this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin brought his dog Yume into an interview with Japanese journalists, and the large Akita breed made sure she as well as her master were well heard.

Putin gave an interview to Nippon Television and Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in Moscow on Tuesday, accompanied at first by Yume, who was given to him by Japan's Akita Prefecture in 2012.