North Korea's Got a Big Crystal Meth Problem
Dancing girls in Pyongyang (Image via) North Korean meth is the bomb – at least, according to US officials who tested two batches last year. The packages of sharp, ice-like crystals measured 98...
View ArticleI Played for Gaddafi's Basketball Team at the Start of the Libyan Revolution
Alex (centre, in the black T-shirt) with some of his Libyan teammates (All photos courtesy of Alex Owumi) There are a few things to expect when you start playing basketball at an international level:...
View ArticleFringes: Stories from the Edge: From the Knife to the Brush
Peruvian artist LU.CU.MA spent 27 years in jail for the murder of his brother, among other crimes. After his release, LU.CU.MA – short for Luis Cuevas Manchego – swore to turn himself around. He...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: A mystery Call of Duty player. The incident: Someone lost a game of Call of Duty. The appropriate...
View ArticleIs Avril Lavigne's New Video Really the Worst Music Video of All Time?
There are a few things in life that you can always rely on to generate an outpouring of foaming-mouth anger from the majority of the Western world. For example, picketing funerals, posting selfies...
View ArticleVICE News: Last Chance High - Part 2
On Chicago's West Side, there is a school for the city's most at-risk youth—the Moses Montefiore Academy. Most of Montefiore's students have been kicked out of other schools for aggressive behavior,...
View ArticleHanging with a Meth Dealer in Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, one of the poorest areas in all of Canada, is notorious for its homeless population, many of whom are mentally ill, addicted to hard drugs, or both. It's a...
View ArticleJames Franco on Teaching, Crying and Playing a Perv
Disclosure: James Franco writes a weekly column for this website. You can read it here. James Franco hadn't planned on playing a role in Gia Coppola's Palo Alto, the film adaptation of his book, Palo...
View ArticleMagnus Carlsen, World Chess Champion, Is Kind of a Dick
Photo courtesy of WikiMedia Commons It was 8:55 AM Montreal time – 1:55 PM in Oslo. I sat in VICE’s Montreal office 15 minutes before the interview in a freshly ironed shirt, nervously thumbing my...
View ArticleVICE News: Last Chance High - Part 3
On Chicago's West Side, there is a school for the city's most at-risk youth—the Moses Montefiore Academy. Most of the students at Montefiore have been kicked out of other schools for aggressive...
View ArticleYour Chocolate Addiction Is Fuelling Child Slavery
Your Chocolate Addiction Is Fuelling Child Slavery
View ArticleTransgender Activist CeCe McDonald Speaks About Life After Prison
Transgender Activist CeCe McDonald Speaks About Life After Prison
View ArticleAustralia Will Buy Any Fighter Jets the US Tells It To
Image via Flickr user San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive Australia’s alliance with the US is a linchpin of its defence policy. And to have a close relationship with the US is to have a close...
View ArticlePen Pals: RIP Bert Burykill, Longtime VICE Prison Correspondent
Bert Burykill as a kid Last week, the man VICE readers knew as Bert Burykill, the pseudonymous author of the Pen Pals column, died from injuries sustained in a car accident. He was 33. Bert’s death...
View ArticleThe Hangover News
Pro-Russian Operations A MILITARY OBSERVER SEIZED IN UKRAINE WAS RELEASED But his seven colleagues are still being held in Sloviansk (via) Pro-Russian separatists released one of a team of eight...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 30
An hour before he was kidnapped by pro-Russia forces, Simon Ostrovsky interviewed two Russian Cossacks in Kramatorsk. One man showed Simon his Russian passport, which was the first confirmation VICE...
View ArticleJennifer Lawrence Is the New Anne Hathaway
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons On “Draft Day”, a new track by Drake, the actress Jennifer Lawrence (AKA JLaw, which sounds like an online law degree) receives a gloating endorsement from the...
View ArticleAleksandr Dugin Wants to See a Return to Russian Imperialism
Aleksandr Dugin While Western pundits denounce Moscow’s actions in Ukraine, it’s clear that there is some support for Putin in the former Soviet state. The latest figures show overwhelming opposition...
View ArticleVICE News: VICE News Capsule - Putin Claims the Internet Is Secretly a 'CIA...
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. This week we explore Russian President Vladimir Putin's warning that the internet is secretly a “CIA project”, the London...
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