N Ireland’s `Game of Thrones’ road painted `by mistake’

Tourists who flock to Northern Ireland to visit the settings for the hit fantasy series `Game of Thrones’ were incensed this week to discover that a road maintenance crew had painted a stark white line down the middle of the Dark Hedges, one of the most eagerly anticipated sights. Government officials say the paint job was a mistake and will be scrubbed off by Thursday. Prominent Russian opposition  figure says he was threatened by a group of men and then attacked with a cake while he was at a restaurant in Moscow.Mikhail Kasyanov is a staunch Putin critic. This comes days after Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya republic, posted a threatening video that shows Kasyanov in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle.