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August 09, 2019
Hidden mysteries lie in wait inside Kenya's fossil treasury
BUZESCU, ROMANIA - With their soaring marble columns, turrets and pagoda-style roofs, elaborate mansions built by affluent Roma dot Romania's countryside in their thousands.Amid modest surroundings of fields or small towns, the so-called Roma palaces seem improbable, even outlandish, but reveal a quest for status within a marginalized and mostly poor minority.They began springing up in the early 1990s after the collapse of communism, when some in the Roma community came into money, they say, mostly by collecting and selling scrap iron or by doing petty trading.Now spread across one of the EU's poorest members, the imposing buildings, estimated to number several thousand, often stand several storys high, as neighbors add floors to outdo one another.Decorative flourishes such as a US...
August 09, 2019
Romania's 'Roma palaces', a status symbol for poor minority
LOS ANGELES, California — Hollywood actor Danny Trejo, known for his tough-guy roles in such films as "Machete," helped rescue a young boy who was trapped in a car that overturned in a Los Angeles traffic collision on Wednesday.Trejo, 75, told television station KABC-TV he was on his way to an auto mechanic in L.A.'s Sylmar neighborhood when he saw a motorist run a red light and crash into another car, which flipped over onto its roof in the intersection.The boy, strapped into his car seat in the back of the car, and his grandmother, who had been driving, were both trapped in the overturned, partially crushed vehicle.Trejo and another bystander - a woman who identified herself as Monica Jackson - teamed up to free the child before emergency personnel arrived on the scene,...
August 09, 2019
Actor Danny Trejo of 'Machete' fame pulls young boy from overturned car
August 09, 2019
'Game of Thrones' show-runners ink massive Netflix deal
August 08, 2019
Manson murders grip tourists and Tarantino 50 years on
August 08, 2019
The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road cover shot 50 years ago today
August 08, 2019
'Raucous' seagulls: Parisians' new noisy neighbours
August 08, 2019
Disney to reboot 'Home Alone' for new TV streaming service
August 08, 2019
Neighbors frown at California emoji house's 'bullying' paint job
August 08, 2019
No host for the upcoming TV Emmy Award ceremony
