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Villagers at the Manait area in Baracay, Albay from the Philippines were shocked when an ultrasound scan appeared to support a 17-year-old’s claim that she had gotten pregnant by a fish and that she was carrying a fish baby. The young woman, Kimberly Robles, first noticed that something was not right in June 2017 when […]

The ways the authorities in Hangzhou, in the Zhejiang province of China cracked down on stray dogs has sparked international outrage after footage showing officials beating the dogs to death and drowning the poor creatures landed online. The harsh treatment of the stray dogs come as the city imposes strict new rules for pet owners. […]

A 33-year-old woman named Wang has caused a stir online after she jumped onto the railway tracks as a train approached, during a fight with her boyfriend. Wang, who pulled the reckless stunt at Nanjing South Railway Station on 12 Nov, earned the ire of both the authorities and netizens when she revealed that she leaped onto […]

Despite shock and outrage worldwide, the South African authorities are moving ahead with plans to auction off a captive white lion, most likely to a trophy hunter who would buy the lion to shoot and kill it. White lions are extremely rare – while there are said to be less than 300 white lions in the […]

US Vice President Mike Pence revealed on Thursday that the US is moving ahead with plans for a second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, despite evidence that North Korea has not halted its missile development plans after promising to do so when Trump and Kim met in Singapore […]

A Texas woman found a creative way to finalize the end of her 14-year marriage with more than just a signature. Kimberly Santleben-Stiteler, 43, celebrated her divorce with a party that culminated in a massive explosion of her wedding dress that was felt for miles, 15 miles away in fact. Santleben-Stiteler originally planned to just burn […]

Fox News Channel announced Wednesday it will support CNN’s lawsuit against the White House over the temporary suspension of White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s “hard pass” press credential, revealing the company will file an amicus brief in defense of the partisan network. Fox News issued a statement accusing the White House of “weaponizing” Secret Service […]

They are the largest mammals in the world living on trees. They are up to 1.5 meters tall, hairy and are becoming rarer. Orangutans, which means forest people in Malay once populated large parts of Asia through China, Thailand and Vietnam to Java. Today they are only located on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. According […]

A 3-year-old girl who had been playing with her friends at Gurugram, a suburb of India’s capital New Delhi, was violently raped and beaten to death after a stranger lured her away with sweets. The horrific crime was discovered when friends told the girl’s family that they had seen her wandering off with a stranger. […]

A married woman in Keonjhar, India mutilated the man she was having an affair with, after she discovered that he had allegedly been talking to other women on the phone. In a jealous rage, 24-year-old Kamla Patra lured Rajendra Nayak to her home under the guise of wanting to give him money to buy a […]

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 […]