A British zoo has had to separate five foul-mouthed parrots who keepers say were encouraging each other to swear. Secret To A YOUNGER-Feeling Brain?! [Sponsored] Billy, Eric, Tyson, Jade and Elsie joined Lincolnshire Wildlife Centre’s colony of 200 gray parrots in August, and soon revealed a penchant for blue language…. Read More
Serena stunner: Tennis star makes shock exit
Saying she is “struggling to walk,” Serena Williams ended her latest bid for a 24th Grand Slam title and withdrew from the French Open before her second-round match Wednesday because of an injured Achilles heel. In 1944, an experiment was done in this Nazi medical center… [sponsored] Williams hurt herself… Read More
American man faces jail … for angry hotel review
Labor activists, journalists and whistleblowers in Thailand have been targets in recent years of criminal defamation lawsuits for exposing alleged corporate wrongdoing, but now a disgruntled hotel guest has joined their ranks and could face prison time for his online comments disparaging a hotel. American expat Wesley Barnes, who teaches… Read More
Prominent journalist killed in motorcycle drive-by shooting
Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot to death a journalist in Honduras who had worked in radio and television before starting his own social media information channel. A relative said Monday that journalist Luis Almendares was getting out of his car to visit a store when the attackers drove up… Read More
Village elects dead mayor in municipal election
After handing Ion Aliman victory in the election for their local mayor, residents of a small village in southern Romania went to his grave to light candles for him. Urgent: Common prescription drug now linked to Alzheimer’s? [sponsored] Aliman was reelected in a landslide for an unprecedented third term as… Read More
Source claims Julian Assange’s obsession with watching suicide
Julian Assange relayed how he “binge-watched” the suicide of the former Bosnian Croat general in a U.N. courtroom three years ago, a doctor who visited the WikiLeaks founder on several occasions while he was in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London told an extradition hearing Thursday. Dr. Sondra Crosby, associate professor… Read More
Rat wins award for sniffing out explosive landmines
A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia. Magawa, a giant African pouched rat, was awarded the PDSA’s Gold Medal for his “lifesaving bravery and devotion” after discovering 39 landmines and… Read More
380 secret detention camps discovered in China
China appears to be expanding its network of secret detention centers in Xinjiang, where predominantly Muslim minorities are targeted in a forced assimilation campaign, and more of the facilities resemble prisons, an Australian think tank has found. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute used satellite images and official construction tender documents… Read More
Baboon evicted after terrorizing suburban homes
Kataza already had a lengthy rap sheet with Cape Town authorities, so when he organized a band of others to raid a series of suburban homes, he was captured. Now he sleeps at a local prison, although there is a social media campaign for him to be returned to his… Read More
North Korea allegedly burns body of S. Korean official
South Korea said Thursday that North Korean troops fatally shot a South Korean government official who may have attempted to defect and set his body on fire after finding him on a floating object near the countries’ disputed sea boundary. South Korean officials condemned what they called North Korea’s “atrocious… Read More
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