United States title match set for WWE Royal Rumble
A United States Championship match has been made official for the Royal Rumble. During Tuesday’s SmackDown, it was announced that United States Champion Rusev will defend his title against Shinsuke Nakamura at the Royal Rumble. Rusev won the title from Nakamura on the SmackDown episode that aired on Christmas Day. Rusev and Nakamura’s feud has continued since…
WWE Halftime Heat returning with NXT six-man tag match
Twenty years after Mankind won the WWF title from The Rock, Halftime Heat is making a return. WWE has announced that a six-man tag match with wrestlers from NXT will air live on the WWE Network, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, WWE.com, and the WWE app during halftime of next Sunday’s (February 3) Super Bowl. It will be…
US to pull all remaining diplomats from Venezuela
The United States will withdraw all remaining diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Caracas as the crisis in Venezuela deepens, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said late Monday. The move worsens already tattered relations, with President Donald Trump having said he rules out no options including military intervention to oust President Nicolas Maduro as Washington monitors rapidly…
Convicted drink drivers in France can avoid ban if they install breathalyser ‘alcolock’
Drink drivers in France will be able to avoid a ban if they install breathalyser ‘alcolocks’ that prevent their vehicles from starting if they are over the alcohol limit. They will have to blow into the breathalyser before the engine will start. They will then be required to blow a second time — set randomly…
GCW Announces New Streaming Partnership With IWTV
Independent Wrestling TV (IWTV) issued the following press release announcing a new streaming partnership with Game Changer Wrestling beginning this Thursday March 19th. This is good news for GCW following the cancellation of all their WrestleMania week events due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Check out the details below. Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) and IWTV…
Roman Reigns officially confirmed for WWE European tour
Roman Reigns has officially been added to WWE’s next European tour. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey WWE’s United Kingdom Twitter account confirmed today that Reigns is set for Raw’s UK dates on May’s European tour. Reigns is also advertised for Raw’s non-UK shows on the tour. Dave Meltzer reported last week that the belief was…
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern vows never to utter name of Christchurch gunman
Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, has vowed never to refer to the Christchurch mosque attacker by his name, as she said he would face "the full force of the law." Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist, gunned down 50 worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch last week and broadcast the footage live on the…
Australian fury as Erdogan invokes Gallipoli after Christchurch massacre
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, has sparked a diplomatic confrontation with Australia and New Zealand over the Christchurch massacre by threatening that anti-Muslim Westerners would be sent home “in coffins” like those killed the Battle of Gallipoli. The Turkish leader has made the killings in New Zealand a centre-piece of his political campaign ahead of…
Forgotten Foreign Office document casts doubt on claim architect plotted to assassinate Hitler
Renewed doubt has been cast on a claim by Adolf Hitler’s favourite architect that he once considered assassinating the Fuhrer by the discovery of a long forgotten Foreign Office document. Albert Speer, who also served as Nazi minister for armaments and war production, claimed he turned against Hitler in the latter stages of the Second…
Editors of Vatican women’s magazine quit after exposing abuse of nuns and allege male campaign to silence them
The entire board of a Vatican women’s magazine that blew the whistle on the sexual abuse of nuns by Catholic priests resigned en masse on Tuesday, citing editorial interference. The magazine, Women Church World, said last month that the abuse of nuns around the world had led to many having to have abortions or giving…