Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
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Last year, the internet's collective imagination was captured after a CCTV video emerged showing someone who looked startlingly like Ross from 'Friends' making his way out of a store in Blackpool with a crate of beer. The video was viewed many thousands of times on Twitter, and naturally a widespread…
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Rescuers are desperately drilling to find a two-year-old boy who has been trapped in a deep well for a week. Julen Roselló fell down the 250ft borehole while out walking with his parents in a mountainous area near the village of Totalan, northeast of Malaga, southern Spain. The 25cm-wide waterhole is…
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A transgender woman from Australia has been jailed for nine years for attempted murder after she walked into a 7-Eleven and began randomly attacking two terrified shoppers with a fire axe. In the early hours of January 7 of 2017, 25-year-old Evie Amati used a two-kilogram axe to batter Ben Rimmer in the…
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All over social media, everyone seems to be taking part in the ten-year challenge, and it's fair to say that some of the before/after pictures have been pretty interesting. In case you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, and have never heard of it before, the…
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A 32-foot smuggling tunnel has been unearthed on the Arizona-Mexico border, reportedly the third tunnel found in the area in less than a month. According to a tweet on Wednesday from the Mexican Federal Police, the latest tunnel was uncovered across the border from Nogales, Arizona. Officials claimed the tunnel was…
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Kevin Fret, Latin trap music's first openly gay artist, has been killed aged 24. Fret was shot eight times at around 5:30 local time while riding a motorbike in Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan. The musician was rushed to the Medical Centre of Río Piedras with wounds to his hip…
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Former teacher and model Kathryn Mayorga claims that Portuguese soccer star Christiano Ronaldo raped her at his Las Vegas hotel room in June 2009, then paid her $375,000 to keep it secret. Last September, she filed a civil lawsuit and asked the police to discard the non-disclosure agreement she signed at the…
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An massive overhead road sign became dislodged and fell onto a moving car on the Tullamarine Freeway near Melbourne, Australia. Dashcam footage captured the horrifying moment, as the sign struck the road and the car slammed into the sign. We drive by those signs every day without considering how big…
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In Australia, the second half of last year was plagued with a genuine fruit crisis, as an astonishing number of sabotage attempts were discovered in all six states of the nation. Starting back in September, grocery store customers were shocked to find needles in fruits such as strawberries and mangoes,…
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It's all too easy to get wrapped up in the shocking numbers that come with any large scale war, and forget the stories of incredible individual sacrifice and bravery that should be told and retold, passed down the generations. After all, it is ordinary people who become the victims of…
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People say that beauty is subjective, and that sometimes an ugly duckling can turn into a beautiful swan. It's true! Some people take a while to grow into themselves and go from being the sort of person that most people would ignore in middle school, to the kind of statuesque…
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Christmas may have come and gone a few days ago, but that doesn't mean the season is quite over yet. It also means that what happened to one 12-year-old boy can just about be counted as a Christmas miracle. The young boy was visiting the La Plagne ski resort this…
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Christmas is a time when we're obliged to spend time with our family and loved ones - people who some of us might not get the chance to see enough throughout the year. It's great to be able to wake up on Christmas morning, open your presents under the tree,…
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If you're a fan of comics, then it's pretty likely that at some point you yourself have fantasied about being a superhero in real life. I mean, come on: who hasn't wanted to be Batman lurking in the alcoves of Gotham city, or one of the X-Men living in Charles…
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Four members of a boy band were killed after they were hit by a tsunami while playing onstage in Indonesia in a devastating natural disaster which was captured on film, Saturday evening. The two band members and two members of crew died after they were swept away by a 20ft wave,…
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Outdoor music festivals are more popular than ever before. Concertgoers drive out to a secluded, scenic area, pitch a tent and watch four days of bands (or rappers or DJ's). And maybe, just maybe, they'll use certain substances. (Don't worry, I won't tell, I'm not a narc.) Everyone goes to…
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Looking in from the outside, Dan Saunder's life looked incredible, with private jets, caviar, champagne and nights with escorts being a regular occurrence. But the 29-year-old had a secret: none of the money paying for it was his. Instead, he was getting his supply from a broken cash machine, which…
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Grab some balut, hop in a jeepney and pull out your barrel man, because Miss Philippines just won the 2018 Miss Universe pageant! Catriona Gray, 24, became the fourth Filipina woman to receive the prestigious crown, defeating Miss South Africa and Miss Venezuela in the final round. It's a huge victory…
