In South Africa, muggers will sometimes give you back your SIM card if you ask nicely. In England, muggers will sometimes throw a ceramic plate at your arm, before kicking you multiple times in the face. The 51-year-old was walking along Bordesley Green Road in Birmingham at around 1:10am after a birthday party on December […]
Committing indecent acts with dairy products in Northeast Philadelphia is a crime. At least, that’s what we’ve learned today.
Bernie Ecclestone, the age-old, talismanic director of Formula One’s holding company is to step down from his role until the court proceedings against him have ended.
Remember Batkid? Sure you do – it’s basically the best thing that we’ve ever pulled off as a human race. But what you missed was the behind-the-scenes story of how 5-year-old Miles Scott became Batkid.
North Korea, a country that can barely keep its citizens fed, has just opened a lavish new ski resort.
The man behind the Sandy Hook shootings, Adam Lanza, has spoken from beyond the grave.
What, you think a couple of bankers don’t like to kick back and smoke a doob every now and then? ‘Course they do. They do that, and a whole lot of other stuff.
The Snowden leaks of 2013 revealed the frightening and possibly abusive global capabilities of the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA). But you have nothing to worry about as a a good guy, right? Wrong. A fairly disturbing new paper in the Yale Law Journal illustrates how cheap it is for the NSA to track an […]
A Johannesburg teacher who sent a nude picture of himself (holding his penis while lying in the bath, nogal) to a 17-year-old student has been fined R3,000 after pleading guilty to contravening the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act. What a guy. Ostrowick, who has since been dismissed by the Gautend Department of […]
The CAR has been ravaged by war for some time now, but the latest reports of cannibilism in the area are totally unprecedented.
We often read about whether countries are increasing or decreasing their nuclear activity, but statistics on nuclear weapons security will leave you surprised. Since 2012, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a non-profit initiative launched by CNN founder Ted Turner and former US Senator Sam Nunn, have been issuing snapshots in time of each countries nuclear capabilities, intentions and safety.
Who are the women that stand behind the world’s most atrocious men?
Yes, really. A 26 year-old pimp from Portland, Oregon, has just filed a R1 billion lawsuit against Nike – because he believes they are partially responsible for the brutal beating that landed him a 100-year prison sentence.
Reddit is many people’s platform of choice for funny pictures, interesting facts, and apparently buying assault rifles. An investigation has revealed that at least 159 sales have been made on the little known GunsForSale subreddit since June last year. Nearly 100 of these guns are AR-15 assault rifles, but since many of the gun orders could’ve taken place over private messages, the exact number of guns sold could be much higher.
Back in September 1988, Martin Tankleff woke up one morning to get ready for his first day of senior high. But when he walked into to his dad’s office, he found him bleeding heavily on the floor.
Over the past week, a few very frenzied e-toll users have been complaining about SANRAL sending them SMSs which claim that they owe them money.
Reddit has had some fairly explosive guests on their ‘AMA’ (ask me anything) page, but none quite like ex-mafia boss, Michael Franzese.
Frank Bwalya, the head of the Alliance for a Better Zambia, attended a live radio interview in which he compared his president to a root vegetable.
A hacker by the name of “Moe1” has revealed to E-toll users that their pin numbers used to login to their E-toll accounts can be easily decoded if their username is known.
Danielle Bruckman lost her phone in January last year, but it resurfaced in the most hilarious way possible.
Puff Daddy once sung “I don’t know what they want from me, it’s like the more money we come across the more problems we see”, and in 2013 he couldn’t have been any more correct.
Cell C’s online portal, My Cell C, experienced something of a lapse in security that allowed anyone with an internet connection to view personal information about many of their subscribers.
When Matthew Welford walked up to Alexander Frew to accuse him of having an affair with his wife, he probably didn’t imagine that that would be the last time he was conscious. Moments into his confrontation of Frew in a UK parking lot, Welford copped a blow to the chin from Frew that rendered him […]
Billions of dollars in sales. Quick shipments. Ultra-efficient distribution chains. Carefully orchestrated PR. Drone delivery. If you think we’re talking about a major business like Google or Amazon, you’d be wrong.
SHUT. UP. eNCA has broken more amazing details pertaining to Thami Jantjie, the sign language interpreter who played air guitar through Nelson Mandela’s Memorial on Tuesday. eNCA reports that Jantjie faced charges of kidnapping, rape, attempted murder, and murder.
Yep. Uh huh. This story really IS getting better. Thamsanqa Jantjie, the man who interpretive-danced his way through Nelson Mandela’s Memorial service in Soweto on Tuesday has a very, very sketchy past.
Aah Susan Sarandon. Ye of the luscious auburn hair and hypnotizing smile. Ye of class, elegance and dagga stompies. Yip, you read it. Snoop Dogg isn’t the only celebrity who likes to light up, Susan Sarandon admitted on the Andy Cohen show that she’s attended most Hollywood events stoned – except for the Oscars.
The failtrain just a-keeps-on-a-rollin’! Deputy Minister for Women, Children and People With Disabilities, Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu said in a media briefing earlier today that the owners of the firm that had been contracted to provide Thami Jantjie for signing at the Nelson Mandela Memorial in Soweto on Tuesday had pulled something of a ninja bomb. The owners […]
Less than a week after the death of Nelson Mandela, Jacob Zuma has signed into law the Protection Of State Information Bill. Zuma would have inked the paper mere metres from the body of late President Nelson Mandela, who lies in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
India’s supreme court has once again criminalised consensual sex between homosexual partners.