How do you prevent a bergie from getting violent, as well as keep the streets clean? Easy – pay them in booze.
Who are the women that stand behind the world’s most atrocious men?
As a last parting gift, Mandela has brought the world’s attention to Cape Town – this time for a good reason. His death has inspired thousands of people the world over to make a sort of pilgrimage to South Africa – and this is backed up by The New York Times placing Cape Town as the number one city to visit in 2014.
The record-breaking winter chill in America has swept over Niagra Falls, almost stopping it completely in its tracks.
When he isn’t the mood for a island holiday, Richard Branson likes nothing more than to leave his Necker Island home and rough it for a while in Africa.
Death awaits us all. But if you live in Monaco – it might wait a little longer. This new infographic projects the life expectancy of those born in 2013.
As contagious as a bad habit, apparently. Many of us have heard of the “Social Contagion Theory”, which basically means that our friends’ bad behaviours like smoking, eating too much and bad language can be ‘contagious’.
The new black London cab was originally unveiled in 2012, but following feedback from the Mayor of London’s office, it was altered and re-released.
An American hunter, Rick Dyer, has recently claimed that he shot and killed bigfoot, and he is now now planning on taking it “on a tour” of the States.
The guy who made super-size me was a fairly large Caucasian male named ‘Morgan Spurlock’. So it stands to reason that the person to perform a similar test on Starbucks would be a small female named ‘Beautiful Existence’.
Crowd funding. Sounds easy, dunnit? Just ask people for money and you shall receive. But it’s not that simple.
No one needs to be reminded about the transformative power of Twitter. It can incite protests, end regimes and mobilise the masses – but it’s also just as useful if you want to get back at the company that just fired you.
Australia – where the English sent their convicts in the 18th century, and where the convicts hunted the aboriginals to near-extinction. It’s a harsh land, full of mystery and wonder. And incest, it seems.
Why has this old guff resurfaced? An alien craft that landed in Russia in 1969 – and people are talking about it again now?
India’s supreme court has once again criminalised consensual sex between homosexual partners.
According to the managing editor, deciding on Time’s person of the year is “not about how good or bad someone has been but how much of a difference they’ve made.” So who has followed in the footsteps of Joseph Stalin, Mark Zuckerberg, and last year’s winner – Barack Obama?
After Barack Obama delivered a stirring speech celebrating Mandela’s life, he saw it fitting to celebrate by taking a little presidential selfie with Denmark’s foxy prime minister, Helle Thorning-Shcmidt.
Ukranian president Viktor Yanukovych is facing a wave of massive protests, as citizens camp out in Kiev’s independence square.
It’s a big event, and with big events come some very specific details. Wise up here.
Eish. We kinda knew that stuff like this was on its way. An article, entitled “Mandela’s Death Highlights How Messed Up South Africa Is Now” was recently published on Business Insider.
It’s about time that condom advertising did away with all the coy innuendos and started getting to the point.
The world lost one of its greatest sons last night at 8:50 PM. Since then, news stations, politicians and celebrities have been pouring out tributes for South Africa’s former president.
It’s been one helluva hectic year. There was typhoon Haiyan, the crisis in Syria, the Boston bombings, wild Australian bushfires and worldwide protests.
Take a moment to absorb the fact that, until now, police in Iceland had never killed anyone. A 59 year-old guy in Reykjavik was firing a shotgun in his apartment in the early hours of Monday morning. That was his first bad move.
Well, they don’t want to put solar panels ALL OVER the moon, they just want to to put a cheeky little 400 kilometer-wide belt of solar panels around the moon. Casual.
This video serves to confirm that Russian children, at least in 1997, are hard as nails. Here, two siblings take part in a friendly game of ‘see who can take down the deadly mammal’.
While some of us still struggle to speak english good, 10-year-old Cameron Bissett has long surpassed mere sentences – he is fluent is speaking backwards. His parents discovered his “talent” (their words) and decided to post a video of Cameron speaking English backwards into an iPad app that translates the word into our normal language.
Honestly – do people not know that CCTV cameras see everything? Apparently not. In the latest episode of ‘smile, you’re on CCTV,’ 22 year-old Dinara, from Turkey, attempts to sell her baby at an airport for R5,000.
Weighing in at 445 kilograms at his heaviest, Paul Mason was the worlds fattest man. Constricted to his bed because of massive bulk, the 52 year-old had to consume 20,000 calories a day just to keep himself going. That was until he underwent a mammoth surgery procedure at the NHS, which helped him get rid of a staggering 300 kilograms of fat. Now that he’s lean – he’s managed to bag himself a woman with the help of the internet. The fat guy’s got game.
A group of tourists cruising off the coast of California this last weekend happened upon something of a rarity in the ocean – a whale carcass. Sighting a whale carcass is unusual because a plethora of marine animals usually make short work of the bodies of deceased sea-dwellers. That principal was excellently demonstrated by multiple great white sharks, who went to task on the body of the whale right in front of the boat.