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Saturday, 27 November 2021 04:00

All-you-can-eat restaurant bans man for eating too much

A Chinese man was banned from an all-you-can-eat buffet in Changsha for eating kilograms of pork and prawns on every visit, causing the business to lose too much money. A food streamer known only as Kang told local reporters that he was banned from the Handadi Seafood BBQ Buffet in Changsha city simply because he can eat more than the average patron. He admitted that he ate around 1.5kg of pork trotters during his first visit to the restaurant and 3.5kg to 4kg of prawns on his second visit before getting banned, but considers that he is being discriminated against…

Monday, 22 November 2021 05:46

Drivers in US state rush to pick up cash spilled from armoured vehicle

Drivers in southern California have scrambled to pick up cash after bags of money fell out of an armoured vehicle on a motorway. The incident occurred on Friday morning on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad as the vehicle was heading from San Diego to a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp office, authorities said. “One of the doors popped open and bags of cash fell out,” said Sgt Curtis Martin of California Highway Patrol (CHP). Several bags broke open, spreading mainly $1 and $20 bills all over the lanes and bringing the motorway to a chaotic halt, he said. Video posted online showed…

Saturday, 20 November 2021 05:49

Why 50m crabs are shutting down roads in Australia: ‘They are turning up everywhere’

Millions of red crabs descended on roads and bridges in Australia’s Christmas Island as part of their yearly migration towards the ocean, shutting certain routes down. The tiny island in northwestern Australia witnesses the migration every year of all of its crab population, estimated at about 50 million, the highest in the world. The mesmerising view of crabs taking over large stretches of roads and parks catches the attention of residents and visitors who are once again racing to capture photos and videos of the migration. The cannibalistic crabs all start their journey from the forest at the same time…

Sunday, 14 November 2021 05:56

Three Wise Men get Covid health pass to visit Jesus' manger

The Three Wise Men have something extra to carry along with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh when they travel to visit Baby Jesus this year: their Covid-19 health pass. Craftsmen along San Gregorio Armeno street in the historical centre of Naples, Italy, are famous for using art to adapt their nativity scenes to the times they are living in. "Last year was the year of the masks, so the figurines of Mary, Joseph and the Three Wise Men were wearing masks ... This year it seemed like the right thing to keep following this direction," said craftsman Marco Ferrigno.…

Saturday, 13 November 2021 06:03

Shocking human tail surgically removed from newborn

A Brazilian baby boy was born with a real human tail that was successfully removed without complications at Albert Sabin Children’s Hospital in the city of Fortaleza, according to the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports. The case report described his mother as previously healthy who did not drink alcohol or use illicit drugs, but smoked 10 cigarettes per day during her pregnancy, with one urinary tract infection during her first trimester, which was treated with antibiotics. She delivered her baby prematurely at 35 weeks with an uncomplicated vaginal delivery, but initial assessment revealed the neonate was jaundiced with a…

Monday, 08 November 2021 05:59

Desperate Afghan father sells 9-year-old daughter to buy food for his other kids - Report

An Afghan father trying to provide food for his family sold his kid daughter to a 55-year-old man. Parwana Malik sold for $2,200, according to CNN. A few months ago, Abdul Malik sold his 12-year-old daughter, also to make ends meet. An Afghan father said he sold his 9-year-old daughter, Parwana Malik, to a man for $2,200 to be able to afford food for his wife and other kids, CNN reported. The family has lived in a northwest province of Afghanistan for years, struggling to pay for basic needs like food. Together, they earn just a few dollars a day,…

Sunday, 07 November 2021 05:57

‘Shocked’ man seeks divorce from wife after seeing her without makeup

An Egyptian man is reportedly seeking a divorce from his new wife, claiming that he can’t get used to her natural look after seeing her without makeup. In what seems like the script of a hilarious sketch or an article on The Onion, an Egyptian man reportedly filed for divorce from his wife-of-one-month, because he just couldn’t get used to her appearance without makeup. Apparently, the two met on Facebook, where the woman always posted attractive photos of herself, but even after going out with her a few times, the unnamed man still found her attractive and decided to marry…

Saturday, 06 November 2021 05:57

Kindhearted husband helps wife marry her lover

An Indian man shocked his relatives and his entire country after he agreed to let his wife-of-five-months marry her lover, and even arranged their wedding. Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, a 1999 Bollywood blockbuster, tells the unlikely tale of a man who helps his wife marry the man she truly loves, played by superstar Salman Khan. It’s the kind of story most people don’t even imagine could happen in real life, and yet the exact same thing already happened twice in India this year alone. Back in April we posted about a man’s India’s Bihar state who helped his wife…

Saturday, 30 October 2021 05:55

12-year-old boy goes viral because of his unique name – ABCDEF GHIJK

A 12-year-old boy from Indonesia’s South Sumatra province recently made international news headlines because of his bizarre name – ABCDEF GHIJK. Yes, you read that correctly, someone actually named their son after the first 11 letters in the English alphabet. The bizarre discovery was made accidentally when the 12-year-old boy took part in a vaccination drive organized by the local police in Muara Enim district. Health workers originally thought the boy’s name was a joke when they saw it in the appointment list, but their smiles turned to utter disbelief when they saw the same name, ABCDEF GHIJK, on his…

Thursday, 28 October 2021 05:54

Man who put himself up for sale arrested in Kano

The Islamic police in Kano state known as Hisbah have arrested 26-year-old Aliyu Na Idris who was trending on social media last weekend for putting himself up for sale due to "poverty". Hisbah Commander Harun Ibn Sina confirmed the arrest to the BBC, adding that Aliyu Na Idris' actions were forbidden. “Yes we arrested him on Tuesday and he spent the night with us, what he did is forbidden in Islam, you can't try to sell yourself no matter your condition or situation." The arrested tailor, who had been speaking to local journalists before his arrest, said he was in…

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Saturday, 23 October 2021 05:59

Man lives with mobile phone in his stomach for 6 months

In a first-of-its-kind case in Egypt, doctors at the Aswan University Hospital in the city of Aswan performed an operation to remove a small mobile phone that had been inside a man’s intestines for half a year. The patient, an inmate named Mohamed Ismail Mohamed, was brought to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain, and a CT scan revealed that there was a foreign body in his intestines. The man was prepped for surgery, and doctors managed to remove the object which turned out to be a small mobile phone wrapped in plastic foil. Doctors didn’t remove the plastic…

Tuesday, 19 October 2021 06:02

Young women in Nigeria are selling eggs in their wombs to survive. This is what they go through and how much they get

It was a hot afternoon in October 2019, and 22-year-old Joan* had just been crying in a ward of a private hospital in Mokola, a neighbourhood of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria. Seven days earlier, she had started taking hormone injections to stimulate her ovaries into producing mature eggs, part of the process to get her body ready so that the doctors could extract them. Joan felt a bit uncomfortable from the examination and had a few painful spots on her lower abdomen where she had been jabbed by the hormone injections. But her tears were not due to the invasive…

Monday, 18 October 2021 05:57

Afghans are selling their children to pay debt, survive

Desperate to feed her family, Saleha, a housecleaner here in western Afghanistan, has incurred such an insurmountable debt that the only way she sees out is to hand over her 3-year-old daughter, Najiba, to the man who lent her the money. The debt is $550. Saleha, a 40-year-old mother of six who goes by one name, earns 70 cents a day cleaning homes in a wealthier neighborhood of Herat. Her much older husband doesn’t have any work. Such is the starkness of deepening poverty in Afghanistan, a humanitarian crisis that is worsening fast after the Taliban seized power on Aug.…

Sunday, 17 October 2021 05:51

Nearly 90 tangled rattlesnakes removed from beneath woman's house

A California woman who recently called a reptile rescue team about snakes under her home learned that a den of more than 90 rattlesnakes had set up camp there. Sonoma County Reptile Rescue shared photos earlier this month of tangled masses of rattlesnakes of all sizes. “This last week I got a call from a lady that said she had snakes under her house,” Alan Wolf, director of the rescue, wrote in a Facebook post. “3 hours and 45 minutes later this is what I came out with, 59 babies and 22 adults.” Wolf said he had returned two more…

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