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Castro says unauthorized filming on the flight severely damaged her reputation/ Image: X A video circulating across X and TikTok this week shows a woman on aBrazillian GOL Airlines flight refusing to give up her window seat to a crying child while a fellow passenger films the exchange. The footage first went viral in December…
The real‑life house from Home Alone was owned during filming by John Abendshien (and his then‑wife Cynthia/ Image: Instagram For most of us, the Home Alone house lives in a kind of snow-globe fantasy. The red-brick Georgian at 671 Lincoln Avenue, under a layer of powdery snow and threaded with fairy lights, is the shorthand…
Image: Facebook/ Hanover County Animal Protection Staff at a Virginia liquor store turned up for work on Saturday to find the aftermath of what looked like a small riot: smashed whisky bottles, liquor pooling across the floor and one very drunk raccoon passed out in the bathroom. The Ashland ABC store had been closed for…
Olive Martin was taken to the morgue rather than hospital, where she displayed ‘some signs of life’ before dying (Durham Police) On the morning of 13 October 2023, 54-year-old Darlington mother-of-two Olive Martin was doing something completely ordinary: making toast before work. At some point in that routine, she suffered a seizure and collapsed in…
Saudi Arabia allows visitors from 48 countries to directly convert their driving licenses without a driving test/ Representational Image Just touched down in Saudi Arabia and eager to get behind the wheel? Whether you’re planning to navigate Riyadh’s busy streets or take a leisurely drive through Jeddah, your first step is to figure out if…
Disgraced ex-NHS Tayside surgeon Professor Sam Eljamel. Image: DC Thomson via The Courier For years, Sam Eljamel was a respected neurosurgeon in Scotland, the head of neurosurgery at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, the man patients trusted to remove brain tumours, treat chronic pain and perform some of the most delicate operations in medicine. What they…
A UBC Okanagan study uses Gödel’s incompleteness theorem to argue simulations fail because the universe contains truths no algorithm can generate/ Image: The Truman Show screengrab For years, the idea that we might be living inside a giant cosmic computer has been one of the internet’s favourite existential spirals. A kind of upgraded Truman Show:…
North Korean officials accused the traveller’s companion of “polluting their country” after discovering a selfie video of him scattering ashes at the DMZ/ Henrik Jeppesen For most travellers, visiting twenty countries is an achievement. For Henrik Jeppesen, a Danish backpacker-turned-blogger, twenty was just the warm-up. By 28, he had stood in more than 2,000 destinations…
DNA taken from a shawl allegedly found beside Catherine Eddowes sparked claims it links Jack the Ripper to a Polish 19th-century suspect/ Image: Russel Edwards, The Independent There are very few unsolved mysteries that still grip people the way Jack the Ripper does. In the autumn of 1888, a still-unidentified serial killer stalked the streets…
Search teams recovered George’s backpack, containing a sleeping bag and unused stove equipment/ Image:X Bran Castle is one of those places where folklore clings to the walls. Perched above the village of Bran, its spires and narrow stairways helped turn it into the world’s “Dracula’s Castle,” even though the Transylvanian vampire of Bram Stoker’s 1897…
