Human Interest

File this under “huh?” – According to The International Business Times, one of India’s highest elected officials, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju, has announced that none other than Nostradamus predicted current Prime Minister Narendra Modi would lead india from 2014 to 2026: Rijiju mentioned Nostradamus’ “prediction” in a Facebook post, in which he also mentioned “amazing facts” about Lok Sabha seats, without explaining its relation with the prophecy about Modi.

Many know that Josef Stalin had one, much adored child – a daughter. But what of his daughter’s children, if any? The Daily Mail recently tracked down Stalin’s granddaughter in all of her “action tough girl”, bleached blonde, and tattooed glory: [T]he woman slowly exhaling smoke from her thick painted red lips, with a gun casually slung over her shoulder, had the kind of privileged public school upbringing most can only dream of.

An escaped lion from Nairobi National Park attacked a man on one of Kenya’s major highways during morning rush-hour. Metro reports: Paul Udoto said the animal attacked the 63-year-old man after straying from Kenya’s Nairobi National Park on to one of the country’s major highways. The animal become agitated by motorists honking their horns and mauled the man, injuring him, before it was captured. A video circulating on social media appears to show the lion running on a pavement as the horns honked.

A large fleet of UFOs was spotted over London’s tallest building, The Shard, last December with some UFO enthusiasts claiming aliens were sightseeing the famous landmark.  A tourist managed to snap a picture of the unidentified objects and forwarded the image for investigation by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Express.co.uk reports: The picture was taken in the capital last December. The eyewitness said: “On closer inspection of the photographs, I noticed that a progressive path off unidentified objects were recorded on the several images that were taken.

Scans of the burial chamber of King Tutankhamun, an Egyptian Pharaoh who died at the age of 19 around 1324 B.C, have revealed two hidden rooms. The discovery has fueled speculation that the chambers might contain the resting place of Queen Nefertiti, the wife of Tutankhamun’s father, Pharaoh Akhenaten. Canoe reports: Mamdouh el-Damaty told reporters that the secret chambers may contain metal or organic material, but he declined to comment on whether royal treasure or mummies could be inside.