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Popular Swedish cider company Kopparberg has taken a step away from its usual offerings to give us something new this summer: strawberry and lime pink gin. Now, in case you're unfamiliar with the brand, it's one of the most popular fruity ciders on the market, and in the UK, it's…
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On 29 October, 2012, a drunken altercation between George Ortiz and Anthony Blas Yepez left Ortiz dead. Yepez was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his girlfriend and her adoptive mother’s boyfriend, the 75-year-old George Ortiz. While the testimony of Yepez’s girlfriend was sympathetic towards him, one fact could…
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A second child has been discovered with bite marks on their body at a nursery in Arizona. News of the first incident, which involved a child being bitten 25 times, broke in the UK yesterday. Taking to Facebook, the second child's distraught mother, Rocio Umsted, shared pictures of her daughter,…
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Summer is hands down the best season of the year - no matter what anyone else says. By that time, the grey, rainy days that confined you to your house in the winter should hopefully have passed, and you can actually spend time outdoors. But if you happen to live…
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On Tuesday of final exam week, a man armed with a pistol opened fire on a classroom at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. He killed two people, 21-year-old Riley Howell and 19-year-old Ellis Parlier, while wounding four others. Authorities identified the injured students as Drew Pescaro, 19; Sean…
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An amputee was forced to drag his body across the floor for three weeks on vacation after an airline confiscated the batteries for his electric scooter. Stearn Hodge lost his left arm and right leg during a workplace accident in 1984, but retained his independence through the use of his…
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Circuses, which are apparently still a thing, are about to experience a major change in the United Kingdom. For centuries, the spectacles have featured wild animals, like elephants, lions, tigers, bears, camels, zebras, chimpanzees and reindeer. Animal rights activists have vigorously criticized circuses for subjecting those animals to confinement, torture…
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The way in which crimes are dealt with by authorities has a huge effect on how, and whether, they are reported. A key example of this was the #MeToo campaign - a global movement where victims of rape, harassment and sexual abuse stepped forward. For many people, this was the…
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Following weeks of protests from the nonviolent resistance movement Extinction Rebellion, the UK government has become the first in the world to declare an "environment and climate emergency." On Wednesday night, members of Parliament passed the motion, a symbolic move that recognizes we must take urgent action to tackle the…
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A 10-year-old girl from Michigan tragically died from an underlying heart condition as she travelled down a 270-foot water slide. London Eisenbeis had been waiting two years to be deemed tall enough to go on the Super Loop Speed Slide - the biggest slide at Zehnder's Splash Village in Frankenmuth…
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A mother was horrified to discover that her 15-month-old daughter had been left with 25 bite marks on her back following an incident at her preschool. Alice Martin, from Arizona, says that the incident occurred just five days after she signed her toddler, Rosalyn, up for daycare at the Creative…
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Potholes are some of the worst things left behind by what we can all agree is already a depressing season. And long after winter has passed, it can sometimes appear that very little is done by the council to fix the damage. Not only are potholes unappealing in an aesthetic sense,…
