While watching live TV coverage of a police chase in Los Angeles TV on Sunday, things suddenly took a real-life turn for the uploader of the video below.
John McAfee is one very weird guy. In a recent blog post the 67-year-old software millionaire posted photos of seven women whom he refers to has “my girls”.
Passengers on a Qantas flight over Australia got more than what they bargained for yesterday when they spotted a 3,6m-long python clinging on to one of the plane’s wings.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reached his 30th birthday yesterday, and to celebrate he sent 1kg of candy and cookies to every child in his country.
A photo of an Indochinese tigress shaking herself dry has been crowned the Grand Prize Winner of the 2012 National Geographic photography competition.
A series of photos capturing the full spectrum of life inside North Korea has been released a couple of days after Kim Jong-un’s first year as the country’s leader. He took over from his father, Kim Jong-ill, on 17 December 2011.
Each year hundreds of empty parked cars are set alight by youths in France, in a misguided New Years celebration. For the first time in years the numbers were released by the country’s Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, who said 1193 vehicles were burned.
Last week we reported on Prince Harry’s first kills in Afghanistan. It is believed that he took the lives of Taliban militants last October when his unit’s Apache helicopter came to the rescue of another patrol unit under attack.
A passenger airliner has careered off the runway at a Russian airport and crashed onto a nearby highway while landing on Saturday. The impact also caused the plane to break into pieces and catch fire. Five people died in the incident.
Those who claimed that Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, was faking her concussion to avoid testifying about Benghazi must feel like real tits now, as the 65 year old was admitted to a New York hospital on Sunday with a blood clot.
To get a feel for how many guns are in America you just have to look to Los Angeles where in an attempt to reduce the amount of weaponry the police are buying them back from the public.
A 33-ton shark aquarium burst open in a Shanghai shopping centre earlier this month. The incident caused injuries to eight shoppers and seven security staff due to the falling glass and debris as the tank shattered. Three sharks and several turtles also died.
Earlier this week we reported on a petition that was started in the US – aiming to kick CNN host Piers Morgan out of America. The number of signatures on that list has since grown from 30 000 to more than 70 000!
Swaziland has banned women from wearing miniskirts, low-rise jeans, and tanktops, saying these items of clothing provoke rape. Those who break the law will face a six-month jail term under the ban, which invokes a colonial criminal act dating back to 1889.
Following this month’s massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, CNN host Piers Morgan has called for tighter gun control measures. But instead of a pat on the back for what appears to be a pretty obvious statement, thousands of Americans have now signed a petition calling for Piers Morgan to be deported over his statements.
What’s worse that someone who thought the world was going to end last week? A tourist who thought the world was going to end. Tourists who flocked to Tikal, Guatemala the largest archeological site and urban centre of the Mayan civilisation for “end of the world” parties have damaged an ancient stone temple.
Details surrounding Prince Harry’s first kill in Afghanistan have emerged. It is believed that he took the lives of Taliban militants when his unit’s Apache helicopter came to the rescue of another patrol unit under attack.
An incredible 3,8 billion pixel photo has gone viral this week. It features a shot of Mount Everest – composed out of 400 individual photographs, taken by filmmaker/five-time Everest climber David Breashears.
Yes, you are indeed looking at a picture of Adolf Hitler at a Christmas party. It was taken on 18 December 1941 in Munich during World War II, at a time when the horrors of the Third Reich’s “final solution” grew ever clearer.
With only one day to go before we are all history, many are flocking to famous Mayan sites in Central America where they will await mankind’s doom.
With the apocalypse almost upon us, now might be a good time to take a look at the kind of bunker you should probably have invested in. This shelter (pictured above) was designed and built by L.A.-based company, Atlas Survival Shelters. Apart from their Mayan apocalypse facilities, they also provide decked out living quarters in the event of an “errant asteroid, nuclear holocaust, or walking dead”.
Haven’t you heard? We’re standing on the precipice of eternal doom. Yes, on 21 December our jig is up. And here are the top five ways doomsayers say we’ll meet our maker. 1) Earth will collide with a rogue planet. There are a bunch of those things crusing around. 2) An “alignment of planets” will cause […]
This week in cautionary tales, a Florida woman named Dorice Moore befriended a known lottery winner, ingratiated herself in his daily affairs to the point where she controlled his finances, embezzled his money, before murdering him and throwing a concrete slab over his bloody corpse.
Londoners were treated yesterday to the sight of a 15m-high rubber duck floating down the river Thames. Tower Bridge was even forced to open in order to allow the giant inflatable bath toy to float upriver.
With only nine days left before the world ends, it’s almost too much to imagine that 12-12-12 also happens to be steeped in superstition, with conflicting views on what fortune it presents – both good and bad. After all, we won’t have a date like this for another 88 years. Read on..
Photos have emerged of a homemade tank built by Syrian rebels in their fight against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Named the The Sham II, the vehicle was assembled using the chassis of an old diesel car and parts salvaged from a junkyard. The contraption is wrapped in 2,5cm thick steel, and is also topped with a machine gun and five cameras.
Here’s the pretext: retired race horses – and horses from similarly competitive backgrounds – are routinely carted from the United States to Canada or Mexico, where they are slaughtered, processed, and shipped to France (and other European countries) for human consumption. This is not a new phenomenon. It has been going on for about as […]
(File Photo: March 2011 Tsunami) Japan’s northeast coast has been struck by a 7,3 magnitude undersea earthquake, and reports are that a one metre high wave has now swept ashore. The same stretch of coastline was devastated by a tsunami in March 2011. Thousands of people perished in the wave. Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK, repeatedly […]
The annual Corruption Perceptions Index for 2012 has been released, and there is little surprise that South Africa hasn’t done very well.
Eberhard van der Laan, Amsterdam’s Labour mayor, is planning ‘Scum villages’ where anti-social neighbours will be booted from the city and rehoused in caravans or containers with “minimal services” under constant police and supervision.