Tom Cruise’s Airplane Stunt For ‘Mission Impossible’: Photos – Hollywood Life

Death-defying! Tom Cruise pulled off his own jaw-dropping stunt as he hung upside down from a World War II plane for the latest installment of ‘Mission Impossible’.Tom Cruise proved once again that there is no stunt he can’t tackle himself! While filming the next installment of Mission Impossible, 59-year-old actor attempted death-defying feats at Duxford…Continue Reading

When a president taught in a segregated school — and it changed history

Last month I found myself in a friend’s kitchen, perched on a wooden stool while pointing a cracked iPhone screen at my laptop’s voice recorder. I was interviewing a pair of climate activists in their 20s, who were hunger striking to protest ongoing political inaction in the face of climate change. A series of unexpected technical glitches forced me to improvise the interview set-up — and then one of the…Continue Reading

Religious Trauma Syndrome: How organized religion can lead to mental health problems

At age sixteen I began what would be a four year struggle with bulimia. When the symptoms started, I turned in desperation to adults who knew more than I did about how to stop shameful behavior—my Bible study leader and a visiting youth minister. “If you ask anything in faith, believing,” they said. “It will…Continue Reading

Jared Kushner raising Saudi cash after cozying up to crown prince while working for Trump: report

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images) This article originally appeared on Raw Story On Friday, The New York Times reported that former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is trying to raise money for his new investment firm in the Middle East. “So far, he is having only mixed success,”…Continue Reading

Among social scientists, a vigorous debate over loss aversion

While most people have likely never heard of loss aversion, the concept — arising in the social sciences some four decades ago — is among the most influential in the behavioral sciences. In a nutshell, it holds that when people make decisions, the impact of losing something carries greater weight than the impact of gaining something…Continue Reading

Bangladesh police bust Pakistan-run fake Indian currency racket, Rs 73.5 million seized

Acting on a tip-off, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) recovered fake Indian currency notes (FICN) valued at Rs 73.5 million from a house in Dhaka on Saturday. The police arrested one lady identified as Fatema Akhtar Opi from the Khilkhet area, and after prolonged examination, they were led to a house in the Dakshinkhan area where…Continue Reading

Exclusive: Maldives hits out at malicious ‘India out’ campaign, says propaganda by ‘corrupt people’

In an exclusive interview with WION, Maldives Defence Minister Mariya Ahmed Didi hit out against the malicious “India out” campaign, saying that the perpetrators are just “social media bots” and “don’t represent the majority” of the island nation. Didi, who is on a six-day visit to India to review the ‘Passing Out Parade’ of officer cadets…Continue Reading

At one of the cafes, to ask for chai is to invite a gaze of withering contempt from the turbaned waiter, as if blasphemy has been committed: It’s called the Indian Coffee House, stupid. At the other cafe, exclusively chai is served, slow-cooked over coal fire in the same dark kitchen for 103 years with…Continue Reading