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A woman has been left humiliated by pool staff in New Zealand after reportedly being asked to leave a swimming pool over her choice of swimwear. Yvette Harvie-Salter, a 26-year-old singer, presenter and actress, had been going to the pool in Auckland three times a week for several years, but…
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A star gymnast was rushed to hospital screaming in agony as she broke both her legs and dislocated both her knees in a horror fall. Samantha Cerio, a student from Auburn University in Alabama, was competing in the semifinals of NCAA gymnastics regional event when the horrifying injury occurred, after…
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Liz Smith, director of nursing at Franciscan Children’s hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts, recently made two dreams come true. At the end of each workday at the hospital, Liz would visit Gisele, an infant who didn't get any visitors during her stay there. Born at 29 weeks gestation, Gisele was diagnosed with…
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We all know about the dangers of drinking and driving and texting and driving, but what about the dangers of vaping and driving? Many people vape because they believe it's less harmful than smoking cigarettes, which is debatable. Yet vaping could pose a bigger threat behind the wheel, because the…
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Shocking video footage seemingly showing a grown man choking one boy and throwing another down a half pipe has emerged, amid reports that he did so to defend his son against bullies. The video, which was uploaded to Facebook, where it went viral, was recorded in New South Wales, Australia,…
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An elderly man fell to his death from the Grand Canyon on Wednesday of this week, marking the third fatality at the national park site in just eight days. The 67-year-old, who has not been named but has been confirmed as Californian, reportedly fell off the edge at a viewing…
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DNA evidence has proven that the person who came forward as a kidnapping victim is in fact not Timmothy Pitzen, who went missing back in 2011. On Wednesday, an individual was found roaming the streets in Kentucky who claimed to be the young kidnapping victim Pitzen, who went missing as…
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Ever since Scottish officials tried to build a "really ugly wind farm" by his Aberdeen golf course in 2006, Donald Trump has been an outspoken critic of wind power. He has also been a lifelong climate change denier, despite 97% of climate scientists agreeing that climate change is real and…
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In an essay for The Cut, Nevada lawmaker Lucy Flores accused former vice president Joe Biden of touching her inappropriately while backstage at a 2014 campaign event. She wrote that he sneaked up behind her, smelled her hair and "proceeded to plant a big slow kiss" on the back of…
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David Blaine has been placed under police investigation after allegations that the magician sexually assaulted two women. According to the New York Post, two women allege that Blaine assaulted them back in 1997 in Manhattan, more than 20 years ago. The cases have been taken up by sex detectives at…
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A man in China was prevented from flying and subsequently detained after he threw coins at a plane's engine reportedly "for good luck". The 31-year-old, known only as Xia, admitted to throwing three yuan coins at a Hainan Airline 7783 jet on April 2 this year. He'd thrown them at…
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A police chief says that he has photographic evidence that Elvis Presley is still alive, more than 40 years since the musician was supposed to have died. Presley was just 42 years old when he was found dead on the toilet in his home in Memphis, back in August of…
