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Slobodan Praljak drank from bottle moments after judges upheld 20-year sentence in The Hague. The United Nations court in The Hague has confirmed that a Bosnian Croat war crimes defendant died shortly after taking what he said was poison upon hearing his appeal of a 20-year sentence had been rejected. A spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former ... Read More »

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is one of the biggest runway events in the world, which makes it nerve-racking for the chosen models to walk each year. And things don’t always go according to plan. That’s exactly why when things went awry for model Ming Xi during Monday’s taping of the 2017 show, she was fortunate to have a friend ... Read More »

A father and son spear fishing trip took a turn for the worst after a visit from a great white shark. Grigor Azatian, 25, was out in Stillwater Cover, California, with his father Armen, when the mammoth animal bit him several times on his leg. Armen told KSBW: ‘He jumped into the boat, grabbed his speargun, went down and saw ... Read More »

Don’t lose heart when you are in a difficult situation: help may come unexpectedly. The astonishing CCTV footage has been shared thousands of times online after it was posted on Facebook earlier this week. It shows a thug in a bright yellow jacket approach a women from behind, before attempting to grab her bag. The man wrestles the innocent woman ... Read More »

Passengers waiting for a WestJet Newfoundland-bound flight at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport didn’t let a little delay get them down. When the passengers from Newfoundland were told their WestJet flight from Toronto to St. John’s was delayed by about 30 minutes, one pulled out his accordion and another opened his guitar case. Within minutes, enthusiastic passengers were up dancing, singing ... Read More »

Dramatic footage has been released of the moment a North Korean soldier flees over the tense dividing line into South Korea, as his former colleagues give chase and fire their weapons. North Korean border guards were few steps behind the Korean People’s Army (KPA) defector who was critically injured when he was hit five or six times before limping into ... Read More »

As filming for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show wrapped up in Shanghai on Sunday, Ashley Graham appeared to battle a bout of FOMO with humor while continuing to push for more curvy representation in the fashion industry. Ashley Graham continued her fight against Victoria’s Secret’s lack of body diversity by Instagramming a photo of herself as a Victoria’s Secret Angel ... Read More »

CHARLES Manson — one of America’s most notorious killers and cult leaders — has died at the age of 83. For 46 years, Manson served a life sentence in various California prisons. Most recently, he was kept in a protective housing unit at California State Prison, Corcoran, a part of the prison reserved for inmates who are understood to be ... Read More »

A 29-year-old man in the UK burst a blood vessel in his eye after an orgasm. Yes, after having eye-wateringly good sex he noticed his vision was impaired and went to the doctor. First, the patient didn’t exactly go blind, but his vision was legitimately impaired. The man went to the hospital after waking up with vision problems, and admitted ... Read More »

Good news for dog owners: Man’s best friend may help lower a person’s risk of heart disease, a new study from Sweden finds. A total of more than 3.4 million individuals without any prior cardiovascular disease in 2001 were included in the researchers’ study linking together seven different national data sources, including two dog ownership registers. The results are being ... Read More »

A teenage girl has died in Vietnam after being electrocuted in her sleep by her faulty iPhone charging cable. Le Thi Xoan, aged 14, had reportedly rolled over onto the torn cable and had as a result been exposed to the live wire, police in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi said. Police in Hanoi, Vietnam, found a burnt white cable on ... Read More »