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The Miss Africa 2018 beauty pageant nearly ended in disaster right after the winner was announced when her hair caught on fire due to the pyrotechnics that were set off on stage to celebrate her win. The beauty queen who won the continental pageant, Dorcas Kasinde who represented Congo, cried as she was announced as […]

A poor dog in San Lorenzo, Paraguay was left with horrific injuries after a group of local children fed the animal a lit firework. The local press reports that the children were playing with fireworks and firecrackers when one child brought the dog over. The children handed the lit firework to the trusting dog which grabbed […]

Oscar-winning Hollywood movie star Natalie Portman who got her big break as a child star in the film ‘Leon: The Professional’ has stated that she felt sexualized as a child actress. In the 1994 film, Portman acts as an orphaned young girl who expresses sexual feelings and even offers up her virginity to the much […]

A woman in the Dombivali district near Mumbai, India lured a man who was harassing her to a deserted spot, tied him to a tree and cut off his genitals in order to “teach him a lesson,” according to the local police. Local newspaper, The Times Now, reports that the 30-year-old man used to harass the […]

A medical surgeon killed his wife then kept her Facebook page updated for the next seven months in a ploy to fool her relatives and friends that she was still alive, according to the police in Gorakhpur, India. The victim, Rakhi Srivastava, had been married to Dr Dharmendra Pratap Singh. The pair split up and Rakhi remarried. […]

US President Donald Trump has thrown shade at his predecessor Barack Obama once again as he highlighted an old tweet Obama had posted seven years ago that appears to support the policies that Trump is enacting now. Putting an end to illegal immigration by erecting a wall at the US-Mexico border is one of Trump’s […]

A 66-year-old man, believed to be a doctor, has been charged with murder after a 2-year-old boy died from blood loss after a botched circumcision conducted at a refugee centre in Italy. According to the local press, the alleged doctor who is believed to be an American citizen of Libyan origin performed circumcisions on two twin boys […]

Thai parents, 31-year-old Amornsan Sunthorn Malirat and 30-year-old Phacharaporn, have gotten their twin children married, believing the siblings to be lovers in their past life. Both children, named Guitar and Kiwi, are six. Speaking to the Daily Mail, the parents said that they knew from the moment that their twins were born that the children would […]

A five-year-old boy is among the survivors after a devastating tsunami struck the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra on Saturday night, killing, injuring and displacing hundreds. The tsunami, that was reportedly caused by undersea landslides after the Krakatoa volcano erupted, triggered a magnitude 5.0 earthquake that further shook the region. Local villagers say that they […]

A Mexican female politician was killed in a tragic helicopter crash alongside several prominent politicians, just ten days after she took office. Her husband, a federal senator, is among those who also died in the crash, yesterday. 45-year-old Martha Erika Alonso and her husband, Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, were killed in when a helicopter carrying them […]

In his strongest statement on the scandals involving Catholic priests preying on children, Pope Francis ordered pedophile priests to “Convert and hand yourself over to human justice, and prepare for divine justice,” as he delivered his Christmas message at the Vatican’s Clementine Hall earlier this month. Lamenting that the credibility of the church has been […]

A newborn baby boy in Katni, Madhya Pradesh, India miraculously survived after his mother hanged herself while he was still attached to her by the umbilical cord. According to the local press, the baby’s mother, 36-year-old Laxmi Thakur, had given birth to her son last Thursday. Before the umbilical cord connecting the mother and child […]

A 10-year-old girl in the West African nation of Sierra Leone is the latest to die after he community mutilated her genitals as part of an archaic puberty initiation rite, that is outlawed in most of Africa but still practiced in Sierra Leone. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is an internationally condemned ritual that involves the […]

A 53-year-old woman from the Hubei Province of China was left horrified when eight of her ten fingers suddenly turned black while she was completing her household chores. The cause? A small cut she sustained while doing her housework that she had left untreated. Local channel Feedy TV reported that the woman, Mrs Zhang initially […]

A three-year-old toddler is fighting for her life in the North Indian city of Delhi after she was violently raped by a 40-year-old security guard who worked in the apartment building where the girl lives with her parents. According to the local press, neighbours stumbled upon the horrific scene and proceeded to beat the security […]