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Saturday, 24 April 2021 05:04

Couple change houses 18 times in 3 years due to wife’s fear of cockroaches

Indian media recently reported the bizarre case of a young couple who has shifted 18 houses in just 3 years, due to the wife’s extreme cockroach phobia. Let’s be honest, few people genuinely like cockroaches, especially the ones they find crawling through their kitchen, but how many people do you know who have moved out of their home repeatedly because of cockroaches? Well, that’s exactly what this couple in Bhopal, India’s Madhya Pradesh state have been doing for the past 3 years, hoping to finally find a cockroach-free house. However, after no less than 18 moves in 3 years, the…

Sunday, 18 April 2021 05:40

Court orders man to pay ex-wife $72,000 for housework during their marriage

Portugal’s Supreme Court of Justice has ordered a man to pay his ex-wife 60,000 euros ($72,000) in compensation for the cleaning and cooking she did during their three-decade-long marriage. There was a time when housework was considered a wife’s duty, but those times are long gone, as evidenced by the avalanche of court rulings in favor of housewives asking for compensation from their ex-spouses. The latest such case comes from Portugal, where the Supreme Court recently ruled that a woman was entitled to $72,000 in compensation from her ex-husband for performing domestic activities like cooking and cleaning throughout their 30-year…

Friday, 09 April 2021 05:53

Egyptologists find vast millennial-old ‘lost golden city’

Archaeologists hailed Thursday the discovery of "the largest" ancient city found in Egypt, buried under sand for millenia, which experts said was one of the most important finds since unearthing Tutankhamun's tomb. Famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced the discovery of the "lost golden city", saying the site was uncovered near Luxor, home of the legendary Valley of the Kings. "The Egyptian mission under Zahi Hawass found the city that was lost under the sands," the archeology team said in a statement. "The city is 3,000 years old, dates to the reign of Amenhotep III, and continued to be used by…

Thursday, 01 April 2021 05:20

91-year-old active police officer has no plans to retire anytime soon

At 91 years of age, LC “Buckshot” Smith may just be the world’s oldest serving police officer, but he says he has no plans to retire just yet. Buckshot doesn’t move around as fast as he used to, but that hasn’t been stopping him from patrolling the street of his home town, Camden, in Arkansas, United States, four days a week. After serving for 46 years as a deputy, he retired, but he couldn’t stay away from the job for more than five months. He doesn’t hunt, doesn’t fish, all he ever enjoyed doing was being a police officer, so…

Wednesday, 31 March 2021 05:26

‘I’m not ashamed that I wear a uniform,’ says 50-year-old school pupil

Shade Ajayi had never set foot in a classroom until middle age. Now 50, the businesswoman is happily learning to read and write alongside students nearly four decades younger than her. Donning the pink dress and bonnet that make up her uniform, she joins hundreds of similarly dressed pupils at a school in Ilorin, Kwara state. “I’m not ashamed that I wear a uniform,” she said. As a child, she worked in her aunt’s shop instead of attending school. She now runs her own business making and selling purses and bags, but believes her inability to read or write is…

Monday, 29 March 2021 05:15

Man suffering from chest pains shocked to find knife lodged in chest

A Filipino man who had been experiencing sharp chest pains in cold weather, learned that he had a four-inch-long knife blade lodged in his chest after doing a routine X-ray. 25-year-old Kent Ryan Tomao was more than a bit confused when doctors told him that he had an an “object resembling a knife” stuck in his chest, very close to one of his lungs. He had undergone an X-ray exam required to apply for a mining job in Agusan del Sur, and never imagined there was anything wrong with him. He told doctors in Kidapawan City that he had sometimes…

Sunday, 28 March 2021 05:19

A man demanded his final paycheque. The auto shop delivered 91,500 greasy coins

A OK Walker Luxury Autoworks in Peachtree City, Ga., has built Ford Mustangs for the Clint Eastwood film “Trouble With the Curve” and for an attempt at a world record for land speed, according to its website. Now the high-end car repair shop has acquired another rare distinction: It has been accused of paying a former employee in pennies. To be precise, that’s 91,500 pennies, adding up to $915 in wages owed — although Andreas Flaten, who was a manager at A OK Walker until last November, has not counted them to make sure he got every last cent. He…

Saturday, 27 March 2021 05:24

This man makes a living by breaking up married men from their mistresses

A 31-year-old “emotional counselor” specializes in breaking up married Chinese men from their mistresses and making sure they return to their wives, who are also his clients. Xiao Sheng has been in the business of breaking up married men from their mistresses for six years, and has come a long way since he first started his unique business. He now has an 8-person staff working alongside him, including a situation analysts, and a customer service manager, as well as actors and directors ready to assist him when certain scenarios need to be staged. His techniques can get very complex, and…

Wednesday, 17 March 2021 05:43

New piece of Dead Sea Scrolls provides window into Jewish society, religion before and after Jesus Christ

Israeli archaeologists racing against treasure hunters to search caves near the Dead Sea have discovered a trove of artefacts, including fragments of a biblical text, the like of which has not been seen for decades. The finds, preserved by the hot, dry air of the Judean desert, also include the 6,000-year-old partly mummified skeleton of a child, and a perfectly intact, finely woven basket dating back 10,500 years that the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Tuesday was likely to be the oldest in the world. The Authority has overseen a survey of more than 100 km (65 miles) of cliffs…

Saturday, 13 March 2021 05:37

These two Islands are just 2.4 miles apart, but have a 21-Hour time difference

The Diomedes, two small islands in the Bearing Sea are famous as one of the few places where you can travel back in time, sort of… The international date line is an imaginary line that runs through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, marking the difference between calendar dates. Crossing the line from east to west, you would need to set your clock forward by a day, while crossing from west to east, you would set it back by a day. The international dateline runs from the North to the South pole, but it isn’t straight; instead it zig-zags, taking…

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Sunday, 07 March 2021 05:38

The town where they eat 500-year old meals

Grand piazzas and palazzos. Metal-spiked doors. Looming archways. And, of course, all that ever-present art in the churches and galleries. But in one city, you also get a taste of the Renaissance every time you enter a restaurant. Ferrara, in the northern region of Emilia Romagna, was once home to the Estense court, or House of Este, which ruled the city from the 13th to the 18th centuries. The court, on the bank of the River Po, was one of the most formidable cultural powers during the Renaissance. Writers including Boiardo, Ariosto and Torquato Tasso were employed by the court,…

Saturday, 06 March 2021 05:15

Man asks woman to refund the cost of food, drinks after relationship goes nowhere

And they say romance is dead. A hairstylist from Milwaukee has stirred a debate on Twitter after revealing that one of her former suitors has asked to be reimbursed for their three dates. The woman, who identified herself as Alex on Twitter, first shared news of the guy's gutsy question in February, posting a screenshot of his texts to her account. "It's the audacity for me," she captioned the screenshot, which appeared to messages the man sent in regards to "reimbursing" him. "Hi Alex[,] hope you're doing well. Would you mind letting me know what your Venmo is?" he begins.…

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 19:50

‘I am happy’: Woman wins historic battle over right to die

Ana Estrada, who is confined to her bed, says she feels "happy and content" about a historic decision by Peruvian officials to allow her an assisted death, a remarkable ruling in this mostly Roman Catholic country where euthanasia is illegal. The Andean country's government decided not to appeal a court ruling that recognizes her right to die. "It is an individual case, but I hope it serves as a precedent," Estrada, 44, told Reuters, after the ministries of justice and health decided late on Tuesday to respect a judge's ruling that she has the right to "a dignified death." "I…

Saturday, 27 February 2021 05:18

Man survives 14 hours in Pacific Ocean ‘clinging to sea rubbish’

A sailor who fell overboard survived by clinging to a "piece of sea rubbish", his son has revealed. Vidam Perevertilov spent 14 hours in the water after he fell off the cargo ship into the Pacific Ocean in the early hours of the morning. The 52-year-old, who was not wearing a life jacket, credits his decision to swim towards a "black dot" several kilometres away with saving his life. It turned out to be a fishing buoy, which he held onto until his rescue. "He looked about 20 years older and very tired but he was alive," his son Marat…

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