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In Canada, animal rights activists protest Fearman's Slaughterhouse by holding vigils in the street. They briefly stop transport trucks carrying pigs to their deaths, and give each animal water and comfort through the slats. Sometimes this leads to confrontations with angry truck drivers, who don't know what's in the liquid and…
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All right, couples, I know you're excited about having babies, but maybe you should hold back on the gender reveal parties. They're getting a little out of control. At first, you were revealing the gender with frosted cupcakes and helium balloons. Now you're using live alligators chomping on Jell-O filled…
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There's a well-known joke about a horse entering a bar, but if it were actually to happen, odds are no one would be cracking a smile. In fact, it turns out, it causes complete pandemonium. Security footage of an escaped racehorse after it stormed into a bar in Chantilly, north…
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Getting a flight is rarely a relaxing or smooth process. For most of us, it includes a lot of stress, money, and effort to go through, with various opportunities for it all to go wrong. And even if your plans go off without a hitch, the experience of being on…
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Last week, a group of seniors from Escondido High School near San Diego, California, landed themselves in hot water after pulling a "prank" which saw them spell out racist and homophobic slurs in photos that were shared on Snapchat. At least 10 pupils were involved in the incident, the details of…
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When you check your baggage in for a flight, it can be a little worrying. After all, with all your clothes and other possessions disappearing down a conveyor belt, only to be seen hours later - potentially in another country - the least we expect is that our luggage will be…
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In a situation as dangerous as an armed robbery, it's hard to know what you would do as the pressure mounts - or what the right thing to do would be. After all, momentary heroism could lead to some dire consequences when misfortune strikes. However, this eight-year-old girl had the…
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When Giselle Maurice got hired as a nanny for a family in New York, she probably expected that she would have to put up with a little trouble from the kids every now and then. What she almost certainly did not foresee, however, was that the mother of the children would…
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Trump has made a lot of controversial decisions during his time in office. His ongoing claims that he's going to "build a wall" along the southern border, his recent support of Brett Kavanuagh, and his racist policies against immigrants from so-called "s***hole countries" - to name but a few -…
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A teacher in Florida has claimed this week that she was terminated from her position at West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie because she gave kids a zero per cent grade when they failed to turn in any work. Diane Tirado, a 52-year-old social studies teacher, has said that the school has…
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Elon Musk, the tech billionaire behind the likes of Paypal, SpaceX, and Tesla, has been forced to step down as the chairman of his own company because of a tweet he posted last month. The controversial businessman has got himself into hot water on previous occasions because of various social…
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On Friday morning a plane crash-landed in the ocean, after missing the runway over Chuuk International Airport. While many passengers were injured, they were full of praise for the quick and efficient response of an island community nearby, who jumped into their boats and pulled the survivors from the wreckage…
