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Saturday, 11 March 2023 06:01

Mom expecting 2 baby girls delivers boys instead

Carolyn and Sean Savage got pregnant using in vitro fertilization. But as it turned out, their last names had somehow gotten mixed up at the clinic — and Carolyn was actually pregnant with another couple's baby. As gut-wrenching as the experience was, Carolyn carried the baby to term before giving him back to his biological parents. Now another heartbreaking and inconceivable mix-up has led to a lawsuit making national news. This story is about an unidentified Asian-American couple from Flushing, New York. After having spent more than $100,000 on IVF services, they were thrilled to learn they were expecting healthy…

Saturday, 04 March 2023 04:28

Woman worried about Covid-19 locked herself, son inside home for 3 years

A young Indian mother locked herself up with her child in an apartment for three years because she was convinced the boy would die of Covid-19 as soon as he set foot outside the home. In what can only be described as an extreme case of Covid-19 paranoia, a 36-year-old woman from Gurugram cut herself and her son from the outside world when the pandemic started. The woman, likely shocked by the wave of coronavirus infections and Covid-19-related deaths that swept India in 2020, somehow got it in her head that cutting off all contact with the outside world was…

Saturday, 18 February 2023 06:00

Company asks job applicants to wear masks to avoid discrimination based on looks

A company in Chengdu, China has been praised for asking both job applicants and recruiters to wear masks in order to avoid discrimination based on looks. Chengdu Ant Logistics recently made news headlines after a video showing its recruitment process went viral on Chinese social media. Shot by one of the interviewees, the short clip shows several masked people waiting to be interviewed by a recruiter, who was reportedly also masked. The company has since put out a statement on the matter, claiming that the video was shot at its recent biannual recruitment fair and that the masked were introduced…

Saturday, 04 February 2023 06:01

82-year-old stores employee retires after viral TikTok video raises over $100,000 on GoFundMe

An 82-year-old Navy veteran working at a Maryland Walmart has retired thanks to an interaction with a customer that went viral on social media. Butch Marion officially retired from his job on Wednesday weeks after a Walmart customer walked into the store and filmed the 82-year-old veteran ringing up items in the checkout line and posted the video on TikTok, which raised over $100,000 for Marion, WTTG-TV reported. That customer, bug extermination business owner Rory McCarty, had seen a previous TikTok video where a woman went into a Walmart and filmed an elderly employee bagging groceries and raised money for…

Wednesday, 01 February 2023 05:47

ISWAP shares old Naira notes to Borno residents

Suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have distributed huge amounts of old notes to scores of commuters in the Lake Chad Basin ahead of the deadline of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) cashless policy, sources have said. Our correspondent gathered that the incident occurred after Mairari village, along the Maiduguri/Monguno highway on Saturday in Guzamala LGA of Borno State. A source told our correspondent in Maiduguri that the ISWAP members were dressed in military camouflage and drove two gun trucks. A resident, Bakura Ibrahim, said the insurgents positioned themselves under a tree and stood…

Sunday, 29 January 2023 05:53

Pastor who ‘died’ from heart attack claims he went to hell, saw demons singing Rihanna’s ‘umbrella’

An American pastor, Gerald Johnson, has claimed that he went to hell and saw demons singing Rihanna’s hit song ‘Umbrella’ as they tortured people. The Michigan priest, who claimed that he temporarily died from a heart attack in 2016, said he heard Rihanna’s song echoing through the gates of hell during his tumultuous visit to purgatory. Despite living his life as a man of God, Johnson said he was shocked when he didn’t make heaven and instead plummeted down to Hell. In a video shared on TikTok, Johnson recounted his 2016 journey into abysss and said he wouldn’t wish it…

Saturday, 28 January 2023 05:47

Man fakes his own death to see who would attend his funeral

A Brazilian man sparked the outrage of his friends and family after he faked his death out of pure curiosity, to see who would attend his funeral. As an experienced ‘ceremonialist‘, a sort of master of ceremonies for various kinds of events, 60-year-old Baltazar Lemos had conducted hundreds of funerals, some of which had been attended by as few as 2 people, others by as many as 500. Recently, he had been thinking about how many of his friends and family would come to pay their respects and bid him farewell when he died, and since he couldn’t really know…

Saturday, 14 January 2023 05:39

Man lives with life-size silicone model of dead wife

An Indian man has been making news headlines for honoring his late wife’s wish to build a life-size statue of her so they can still be together. Tapas Sandilya, a retired government employee from India’s West Bengal, lost his wife of 39 years in 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Indrani was taken to the hospital while he was forced into isolation, so he couldn’t be by her side when she passed away. Determined to at least fulfill one of his wife’s final wishes, Tapas started looking for an artist that could create a lifelike silicone statue of Indrani, and spent…

Saturday, 07 January 2023 05:51

Family has been living in the middle of a roundabout for over 40 years

A Welsh family has been living in the middle of a roundabout for over four decades, after refusing to leave as the circular road was built around them. In 1960, when David John and Eirian Howatson moved into their bungalow in Denbighshire, Wales the area was just a regular neighborhood and things were pretty normal for about two decades, until authorities came knocking and let them know that their property was right where a new roundabout was to be built. The Howatsons refused to move away, so the roundabout was built around their home, and the family has been living…

Saturday, 31 December 2022 06:21

Convicted rapist released after marrying his victim

A convicted rapist in Pakistan has reportedly gotten out of a prison sentence by agreeing to marry the 36-year-old deaf woman whom he assaulted and impregnated in 2020. The Peshawar High Court on Monday rescinded its life prison sentence against Daulat Khan, 23, after he wed the woman whom he was convicted of raping, CNN reported on Thursday, citing the man’s lawyer. The wedding followed an out-of-court settlement that was made through a jirga, a council of local leaders that make decisions based on Islamic law. Khan also had been ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 rupees ($1,200) over…

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Saturday, 31 December 2022 06:19

Medical center mistakenly notifies thousands of patients that they have cancer for Christmas

Imagine scrolling through your inbox a couple of days before Christmas, casually reading heartwarming Holiday wishes, and then seeing a message from your medical center notifying you that you have “aggressive” cancer. Forget totally ruining someone’s Holidays, this is the kind of message that could cause someone a heart attack, or at least a panic attack. Sending one person such a message by mistake would be considered a serious error, but sending that message to thousands of patients is nothing short of a catastrophe. The Askern Medical Practice in Doncaster, UK has around 8,000 patients and it is believed that,…

Saturday, 24 December 2022 05:42

This miracle plant was eaten into extinction 2,000 years ago

Silphion cured diseases and made food tasty, but Emperor Nero allegedly consumed the last stalk. Now, a Turkish researcher thinks he’s found a botanical survivor. From before the rise of Athens to the height of the Roman Empire, one of the most sought-after products in the Mediterranean world was a golden-flowered plant called silphion. For ancient Greek physicians, silphion was a cure-all, prized for everything from stomach pain to wart removal. For Roman chefs, it was a culinary staple, crucial for spicing up an everyday pot of lentils or finishing an extravagant dish of scalded flamingo. During the reign of…

Saturday, 17 December 2022 05:57

Man suffers facial paralysis after staying up to watch World Cup games for a week

A 26-year-old man wound up with facial paralysis after wasting several nights watching the World Cup football games for an entire week. The World Cup is always an exciting time for football fans all over the world, but keeping up with the action is a huge challenge, especially during the group stages, and even more so when the host country is in a very different time zone. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t die-hard fans out there who will sacrifice sleep for nights in a row to make sure they don’t lose a single game. Unfortunately, that can take a…

Saturday, 10 December 2022 05:52

Office worker complains he gets paid $128,000 a year ‘to do nothing’

An Irish financial manager for Ireland’s national railway network claims that he gets paid almost $130,000 (€108,000) a year to eat lunch and read newspapers all day. Getting paid to essentially do nothing doesn’t sound like something most people would complain about, but for Dermot Alastair Mills, an employee at Irish Rail, it’s discrimination. The financial manager claims that after turning whistleblower about the company’s accounting in 2014, he was gradually relieved of virtually all of his duties, to the point where he now spends most of his days eating lunch and reading newspapers. Despite all this, he still cashes…

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