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Amnesty International announced on Nov 12 that it has withdrawn its highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, from Aung San Suu Kyi, in light of the Myanmar leader’s shameful betrayal of the values she once stood for. “Today, we are profoundly dismayed that you no longer represent a symbol of hope, courage, and the […]

A 69-year-old Dutchman, Emile Ratelband has filed a lawsuit to reduce his age by 20 years. Emile Ratelband, who describes himself as a “positivity trainer” wants to shift his birthday from March 11, 1949, to March 11, 1969. Ratelband, a media personality, entrepreneur and trainer in neuro-linguistic programming, said he feels discriminated against because of […]

New satellite images showing that North Korea has continued to move forward with upgrading its ballistic missile program at 16 secret sites, suggest that the nation led by Kim Jong Un has reneged on its denuclearization deal with the US. The latest satellite images come a week after the US pulled out of a top-level negotiation […]

Teachers at an elementary school in the Sukabumi Regency of West Java, Indonesia have been penalised after they caught students smoking but forced the children to smoke more as a form of “punishment.” The incident that unfolded last Saturday, 3 Nov, at the school’s teacher lounge was caught on camera by one of the schoolteachers. The […]

A 49-year-old Zimbabwean accused of raping his 12-year-old stepdaughter has begged a female magistrate to look at his penis, pleading that his genitalia is “too massive” to have raped a child. Claiming that the abnormally large size of his genitalia will be the key evidence to exonerate him, Biggie Dube asked magistrate Dambudzo Malunga at the court […]

Three managers running a sales firm out of southwestern China’s Guizhou Province have been arrested after they allegedly forced employees who failed to meet sales targets to consume urine. In the shocking incident that occurred in 30 Oct, the managers also whipped their employees with belts. The horrifying incident was filmed and uploaded online to […]

A four-year-old girl in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was brutally gang-raped by a hospital employee and four others, at the Intensive Care Unit at a private hospital located 155 miles southwest of the state capital. The toddler had been undergoing treatment for a snake bite, when she was violently attacked on Saturday […]

A 39-year-old mother of three from Russia has been charged with burning her disabled elderly mother-in-law after she threw the 73-year-old in a bath of scalding water due to an argument. According to the local press, the 39-year-old is the main caregiver of her mother-in-law. After an argument with her physically disabled mother-in-law, the daughter-in-law […]

A 29-year-old woman from Harare, Zimbabwe, is suing her ex-boyfriend after his “abnormally long” genitalia allegedly overstretched her private parts. The woman, Silindile Mangena, expects her ex-lover, 37-year-old Mugove Kurima to cough up over USD $10,000 so that she can undergo reconstructive surgery. According to the Zimbabwe Mail, Silindile lamented that her private parts were “tight” before […]

An 11-year-old boy shot and killed his 65-year-old grandmother before killing himself in a disturbing murder-suicide over the weekend, that has shocked the Litchfield, Arizona community. According to the local police, the boy – who lives with his grandparents Doyle and Yvonne Herbert who have full custody – refused to clean his room and was “stubborn” […]

A video shared by Facebook user Simon Ong which shows a maid’s horrid abuse of an elderly woman is going viral with over 10,000 shares. Simon said he was re-sharing the video of another Facebook user Jammy Tan. The video, posted on Sep 23, shows a maid manhandling the elderly Chinese woman badly and throwing […]

Shirrako, a popular YouTube content creator, was suspended from the platform on Nov 7 for publishing a series of videos showing him killing a suffragette character in the game Red Dead Redemption 2. Youtube claimed the videos the popular game filled with brutality and mayhem “promoted violence”. “YouTube’s Community Guidelines prohibit among other things, gratuitous violence, nudity, […]

Ari Mahler, a trauma nurse in Pittsburgh and a member of the Tree of Life synagogue’s Jewish congregation, who treated suspected synagogue shooter Robert Bowers after he was brought in to be treated for multiple gunshot wounds from police. The tragic October 27 shooting saw more than 11 people killed and left Mahler in fear […]

A Chinese woman suffered an eye stroke after she binge-watched popular period drama ‘The Story of Yanxi Palace’ over seven days straight. Taking advantage of the long holiday in China in the beginning of October, that starts with National Day on 1 Oct and extends for three public holidays, a woman known as Ting decided […]

Neither the “Blue Wave” nor the “Red Wall” became a reality as the US midterm election results filed in. Instead, Washington faced a “Purple Puddle” as the Republicans kept and increased their majority in the Senate while the Democrats flipped the House of Representatives. The Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives by winning […]