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A 39-year-old woman from Uganda has 38 children - and is raising them as a single mother. Mariam Nabatanzi's husband reportedly abandoned her three years ago. Reuters reports that Mariam first gave birth - to twins - just a year after she was married off at the age of 12;…
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A university gym boss has been dismissed for sending a message implying that women who miss fitness classes should be "raped". Ross Brain sent the message in a WhatsApp group to his co-workers at Edinburgh University Sports and Exercise Club, discussing potential punishment for an unidentified woman who had skipped…
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A female customer at a McDonald's in Beijing was horrified to find that her order of chicken wings allegedly came with the feathers still very much attached. The woman, known only as Zhou, apparently ordered the wings to-go for her daughter, who shortly after noticed something off about the food.…
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The last few years have seen a huge shift towards female empowerment and equality in the workplace. Scrutiny which was long overdue has highlighted gender pay gaps, sexual harassment and the institutional objectification of women. In 2017, the news that millionaire movie producer Harvey Weinstein had abused his position of…
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The perpetrator of one of the worst hate crimes in history has been executed today, with the racially-motivated killer of a black man receiving the death penalty. John William King, 44, died by lethal injection in Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, after becoming one of three men to be convicted…
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has announced his intention to run for President of the United States in the 2020 US elections. In a speech announcing his intention to run for president, which was posted to his official YouTube channel, Biden stated: "The core values of this nation… our standing…
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Last year, US president Donald Trump took a break from golfing and live-tweeting Fox News to visit the United Kingdom. Hundreds of thousands of protesters greeted him in London, flying a vibrant, 20 foot tall blimp, depicting POTUS as a wailing, diaper-clad baby. An activist group raised more than $45K…
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A woman has shot her husband dead after discovering that he had added an adult movie channel to their television subscription, local news reports. Prosecutors say that Patricia Ann Hill, 69, "flew into a rage" once she discovered that her husband, Frank, had re-added an adult movie channel to their…
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On Tuesday, rapper Bernard Freeman, best known by his stage name Bun B, shot a masked intruder at his Houston, Texas home. Police say the suspect rang the doorbell at around 5:45pm. Bun B's wife, Mrs. Freeman. answered the door, assuming the visitor was a delivery person. The suspect, identified…
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The US has long been the moral arbitrator of the world. In what was perhaps its finest hour, US forces enabled the Western Allies to triumph over the spreading tide of Nazism, ending World War II. However, in an age of globalisation, terror attacks and digital technology, the wars -…
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One in five people in the UK, and between 25 and 45 million people in the United States, are thought to suffer with nasty irritable bowel syndrome symptoms - but praise be, because this could all be about to change with the arrival of a new drug that promises to…
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Three men have been jailed in Pennsylvania for forcing a teenager to help them have sex with several animals, including cows, goats, horses and dogs. Matthew Brubaker, 31, Terry Wallace, 41, and Marc Measnikoff, 34, were all found guilty of having sex with at least 12 animals in Munson, Pennsylvania,…
