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If you're going to embark on a criminal lifestyle full of sketchy behavior and illegal activity, there's pretty much only one rule you have to follow: don't get caught. As it turns out, though, some people can't even manage that. Emily Lock, a 22-year-old woman from Caerphilly in Wales, recently got…
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When you consider the extent to which medicine has progressed over the last couple of centuries, we're very lucky to have been born into the present day. No longer do we have to rely on rudimentary cures or the guesswork of so-called "quacks"; instead, we have billion-dollar industries dedicated to researching…
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Over the past few weeks, Facebook has been rocked with scandal. One, we learned the Trump-affiliated political consulting film Cambridge Analytica stole data from 87 million users, and used it to influence voters' decisions in the 2016 presidential election. Two, Facebook admitted it scans all of our conversations in the Messenger…
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Lakeith Smith, 18, was part of a group responsible for the burglaries of two houses in Milbrook, Alabama. There were five other men who assisted in the 2015 crimes, and one of them - 16-year-old A'Donte Washington - was shot and killed by a police officer. Despite the fact it…
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Last year, Charlotte Smith - a 21-year-old woman pregnant with her first child - had to make a devastating decision. She was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, and was told that carrying her child to term could mean that she would lose her life. Faced with the prospect of a…
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Since Donald Trump took over the role of president last year, he's received a great deal of criticism about how poorly he's handled the role. However, let's be fair to the guy for a moment - it's not just him who's made mistakes. The rest of his family has, too.…
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It's a tough time to be someone who loves guns. In the wake of the Parkland shooting, where 19-year-old former Stoneman Douglas pupil Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people and wounded 17 others, more and more Americans are starting to question the Second Amendment: the right to bear arms. Survivors of the…
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We are all aware that there are some horrible people out there who will spike drinks, either to make their target vulnerable to assault or as a cruel prank. It is extremely difficult to get into the mindset of someone who would do this, or imagine how they can get…
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For years now, tensions have been high between Syria and Israel, and the pair have a history of conflict. Up until 2017, however, Israel had been officially neutral towards the Syrian civil war - but that all changed seven months ago when the nation made it clear that they were opposed…
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In the short time that he has been president, Donald Trump has encountered a whole host of controversies and scandals - but wall-gate has got to be the most prominent of them. For years, the former businessman has been promising a "yuge" wall along the southern border for the purposes…
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One man has died and six firefighters have been left injured after a fire broke out at Trump Tower in New York on Saturday, according to the New York City Fire Department. US President, Donald Trump, has a home and office in the building which is located on Fifth Avenue.…
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For most people in the western world, the concept of living in a dictatorship is nightmarish beyond belief. To those enjoying constitutional rights and all the other freedoms we so often take for granted, North Korea seems a million miles away. Guilty of a laundry list of horrendous human rights…
