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5 days ago
Current Event 66bnatsPeople hiding needles in strawberries in Australia have started putting them in other fruit too
Over the past week, people in Australia have started noticing needles hidden in fruit: first in strawberries, and now in an apple and a bananas. Two people who accidentally ate the needles had to go to hospital, and the trend has thrown the Australian fruit industry into crisis.
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6 days ago
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'So shocked': customer wins bookshop in raffle
Owner avoids having to close Bookends in Cardigan by raffling it off to customers who spent more than £20
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10 days ago
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How to Be Better at Parties
People love to party! Well, at least some of them do. For the rest of us, parties bring on waves of feelings, good and bad, much like the events themselves. Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about being the hit of the party.
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11 days ago
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France admits systematic torture during Algeria war for first time
Emmanuel Macron also recognises role of state in 1957 death of dissident Maurice Audin
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12 days ago
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'One in five French people can't afford three meals a day'
One in five French people can't afford three meals a day or eat healthily, a new report reveals, as the government gets set to present its long-awaited poverty plan on Thursday. The survey, carried out by the Secours Populaire (French Popular Relief) -- a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting poverty and discrimination -- contains some shocking figures.
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13 days ago
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'Over my dead body': Booker prize archives reveal unknown judging battles
British Library puts archive online, ranging from the coin-toss that won David Storey 1976’s award to Joanna Lumley’s disdain for The Bone People.
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2 weeks ago
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Costco is selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits that can feed a family of 4 for a year
Costco's kits contain freeze-dried broccoli, green beans, corn, dehydrated apples, and other grains and proteins that have a shelf life of up to 30 years.
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2 weeks ago
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A Father Took His 10-Year-Old Fishing. She Fell in the Water and Drowned. It Was a Tragic Accident — Then He Was Charged With Murder.
Wendell Lindsey is serving life in a Texas prison, but his conviction relied on dubious drowning science and a key witness with secrets of her own.
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2 weeks ago
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Apple just permanently banned Infowars from the App Store
Only a day after Alex Jones was permanently banned from Twitter, the Infowars app — the final straw for Jones’ platform — has been permanently kicked off the App Store, also permanently. Apple confirmed the removal with Buzzfeed by citing the App Store guidelines, which forbids “content that is offensive, insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust, or in exceptionally poor taste.” Searching for the app within the App Store right now only brings up other apps unrelated to Infowars.
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2 weeks ago
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So sad. I guess smoky finally got the bandit.
Posted in: Hollywood star Burt Reynolds dies, 82
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2 weeks ago
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'Mindful people' feel less pain; MRI imaging pinpoints supporting brain activity
Ever wonder why some people seem to feel less pain than others? A study conducted at Wake Forest School of Medicine may have found one of the answers—mindfulness. "Mindfulness is related to being aware of the present moment without too much emotional reaction or judgment," said the study's lead author, Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the medical school, part of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. "We now know that some people are more...
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2 weeks ago
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Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level
A new bill will help its intelligence agencies circumvent encryption. And what starts Down Under won’t necessarily stay there.
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3 weeks ago
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Not this again, just leave it alone it's fine.
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3 weeks ago
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Swarm of 20,000 bees attack New York City hotdog stand
Productivity came to a halt across New York City offices on Tuesday afternoon, as hordes of people eagerly followed the removal of 20,000 bees from a hotdog stand. The bees had swarmed the hotdog stand, a block south of Times Square, around 1pm. Thousands watched a Reuters livestream – the stand is located outside the news agency’s New York headquarters – and followed on Twitter as a police officer was called in to remove the bees. With a vacuum cleaner.
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3 weeks ago
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The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave
The world of invention is famous for its patent disputes. But what happens when your dispute wasn’t with another inventor but whether the Patent Office saw you as a person at all? In 1864, a black man named Benjamin T. Montgomery tried to patent his new propeller for steamboats. The Patent Office said that he wasn’t allowed to patent his invention. All because he was enslaved.
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3 weeks ago
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Intrepid Grandma Removes 2 Pythons From Barbecue Grill
Today, in things you have to see to believe, please peruse this viral video of a grandmother removing two very large, very resistant pythons from a barbecue grill. In a video shared to social media by Channel 7 News Brisbane, an 81-year-old grandma from Down Under who goes by the name Faye Morgan, wrangles, not just one, but two very large pythons from an outdoor grill before kindly depositing them in a large box. While there was a younger man who held open the box for Morgan, Morgan manages to ...