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CORRECTION: On 5th July, we published this story suggesting that a 17-year-old girl was being trained by NASA to travel to Mars. This story was published in error, and it has since been reported by The Weekly Standard that the girl in question, is not, in fact, affiliated with NASA,…
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From time to time, we all imagine what the world is going to look like for our great-grandchildren, and all of their descendants. But, chances are, none of us will ever truly know. That is, perhaps, aside from one person called 'Noah', who claims to be a time traveller who…
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A few weeks ago, news of a rare black giraffe that was shot and killed by a trophy hunter went viral after images of the slain animal were posted on social media. The hunter was identified as Tess Thompson Talley, a 37-year-old American woman who has achieved a level of…
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A Florida woman has finally lost her virginity at the age of 32 after being cured of a rare condition that meant she couldn't have penetrative sex without feeling like she was "hitting a brick wall". Karen Buono 35, from Wesley Chapel, Florida, has spent most of her life struggling…
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After spending a year and a half in office, Donald Trump has definitely made his mark on America. He's arguably been the subject of more sex-based scandals, held responsible for more diplomatic blunders, and certainly experienced more Twitter faux pas than any other serving president in US history, and yet…
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It's hard to believe that there was genuinely a time before Donald Trump was president. While we're all used to the President's constant stream of tweets online, it wasn't always this way. Before Trump became the most powerful man on the planet, America had Barack Obama at the helm and…
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If Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's relationship has been the most heavily scrutinised ever, the former Suits actress' relationship with her father, Thomas Markle, comes in a close second. Whether or not the retired television lighting engineer would come to their nuptials in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on…
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There seems to be no end to the amount of rules and regulations that those in the British royal family have to follow. Prince William and Kate Middleton's children have to learn various things from an early age, with official reasons why Princess Charlotte can’t sit at the dinner table with…
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Picture this: you're standing in an a crowded airport, the flight is boarding, and you're ready to depart - the only thing is, your husband, who was standing right next to you just now, has disappeared. You scan the departures lounge, searching for a familiar face among the throng of…
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In what is one of the most moving stories you will hear, a three-year-old cancer survivor who is currently in the process of remission was made a flower girl at the wedding ceremony of the woman who saved her life. Skye Savren-McCormick was diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia before she had…
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It seems like these days there's a new piece of dating terminology to learn ever week. Seriously, it's like social media is totally determined to name, log and categorise every minute facet of human interaction and behaviour, and keeping up with the new terminology can feel pretty exasperating sometimes. You've…
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On Monday of this week, in the quiet town of Fountain Hills, Arizona, a 72-year-old man was shot dead by his elderly mother in a violent attack. The murderer, 92-year-old Anna Mae Blessing, apparently made the decision to kill her son after beginning to suspect that he had plans to move…
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Something very strange happens when you hit a level of fame. For most people on the planet, you cease to be a person with flaws and feelings, and become a 'celebrity'. Your every move is now watched by paparazzi, whether that means heading to buy some milk and eggs when…
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The way products are marketed towards men and women is absolutely insane. Take men's products, for example. When marketing something towards men, everything needs to be "manly." This involves packaging being made of up of navy blue, black and silver, with words such as STEEL and AXE (which have to…
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I think we can all agree that any post-pregnancy body is incredible. Think about it for a second: mothers grow an actual human being inside them for nine whole months, then they push said human being out, and then look after their every need; feeding and burping them at their…
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Has there ever been a fictional character hated as passionately as Jar-Jar Binks? For Star Wars fans around the globe, the CGI Gungan seemed to epitomise everything terrible about The Phantom Menace, and the vitriol directed at him was bitter and vocal. It seems like nobody (aside from very young…
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In June 2007, people were shocked to hear about a headless body that had washed up on Rockmarshall beach in Louth, Ireland. Nobody had any idea of the identity of the corpse, nor how the man had died or where he had originally entered the water. For more than a decade,…
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There's definitely something going on between Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid, but there has been enough ambiguity to confuse some fans. Malik spoke to GQ in mid-June (in an interview presumably conducted months earlier), where he avoided the question. "We're adults," he said. "We don't need to put a label on…
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If my Instagram feed is anything to go by, then a lot of you out there really love to travel and see the world. Nominally, there's nothing wrong with that; it's a chance to see how other cultures live and try some delicious foreign food but I find that after…
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In the massively-hyped, quadrennial sporting event that grips sports enthusiasts the world over, it's often impossible to predict what'll happen in the World Cup. Who would have thought that the Dutch National team would have got away with a kung-fu kick in the 2010 Final, or that Zinedine Zidane would…
