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A mountain climber famous for posting pictures of herself in bikinis on top of mountains has died after falling down a ravine during a solo trek. Gigi Wu, who was nicknamed the 'Bikini Climber', used a satellite phone to contact friends for help after she fell down a 20-metre gorge…
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A kebab chef has been arrested by police out in Turkey, accused of murdering his own daughter by slicing her into pieces, in what's already one of the more shocking stories of the year. Hasan Uslu, a kebab chef from Keslan in northwestern province of Edirne, Turkey, was accused of killing…
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A Kendall Jenner superfan has amused social media users with his comedy Instagram account, in which he photoshops himself into the background of her pictures. A man calling himself Kirby Jenner has made it his mission to edit himself into every one of Kendall's pictures - and the results on…
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A 28-year-old Bangladeshi man named Abul Bajandar, also known as the "Tree Man," who suffers from an extremely rare genetic disease, is facing more surgery after a relapse in his condition. Abul has been living with a curious dermatological phenomenon for almost 30 years: the uncontrollable growth of large, bark-like…
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For the past couple of days, social media has been awash with opinions over an incident involving a Native American war hero and a large group of MAGA hat-wearing teenage boys. Nathan Phillips, an Omaha Tribe elder, was participating in the Indigenous Peoples March on Sunday when he found himself…
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Over this weekend, a video clip showing a group of teenage boys in MAGA hats surrounding a Native American elder went viral. The boys, who were from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, had been in Washington DC in order to participate in the March for Life, but encountered Nathan Phillips,…
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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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Over the past few weeks, news of R Kelly's alleged abuse has dominated the media. Rumours of the matter had been circulating since the 1990s, but it was only after a recent documentary, Surviving R Kelly, that the issue seemed to be taken seriously by those in the music industry…
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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 72-year-old grandmother has claimed to found love with a 19-year-old that she met at her son's funeral. Almeda and Gary Hardwick wed back in 2016 - two weeks after they first met. The pair became acquainted at the funeral of Almeda's son, Robert, who died aged 45 after suffering…
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Per Variety, Sony Music has decided to dissolve its working relationship with R. Kelly. According to a source, no public announcement of the decision is planned for the immediate future, but Kelly was removed from the RCA Records website - which lists the label's signed artists - around 10am on…
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Sue East was only 58 when she passed away in December, after a battle with cancer. The day she died, she wrote a letter to her pupils, in which she explained that she was "going to die soon," thanking them for their "joy and friendship". On Thursday this week, hundreds…
