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Saturday, 14 December 2019 05:54

Man born without testicles gets one transplanted from twin

Surgeons have transplanted a single testicle from a 36-year-old Serbian man to his identical twin brother, who was born with none. The six-hour operation was only the third of its kind, performed by an international team of surgeons, including an expert from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. With the newly-transplanted testicle, the recipient will be able to have children of his own and, because the twins are identical, the DNA he passes to his offspring will be a nearly exact match for his own. The historic procedure could offer hope that transgender patients and men with catastrophic groin…

Tuesday, 03 December 2019 06:35

Four generations of US family die in plane crash

Federal investigators have reached the site of a South Dakota plane crash that killed nine members of a prominent US business family on Saturday. Spanning four generations, they had been travelling back home to Idaho after an annual pheasant-hunting trip. Their plane crashed shortly after take-off at about 12:30 (18:30 GMT) local time from Chamberlain - which was under a winter storm warning at the time. Officials confirmed that three other family members survived the crash. Among the victims were Jim Hansen Sr and his two sons Kirk and Jim Jr - who served as executives at Conrad & Bischoff,…

Tuesday, 03 December 2019 06:30

Man shot to death in home by own booby trap

A man in Maine was killed after his homemade booby trap malfunctioned, according to police. Police say 65-year-old Ronald Cyr dialed 911 to report being shot on Thanksgiving night in Van Buren, near the state’s border with Canada. Police arrived and found Cyr’s home had a booby trap set up to fire a handgun at anyone who opened the house’s front door. Officers called in the state bomb squad after finding other “unknown devices.” State and local police investigators determined that one of the homemade devices unintentionally discharged, wounding Cyr. Cyr was taken to a local hospital, where he was…

Sunday, 01 December 2019 05:32

Man tells police wind blew bag of cocaine into car

A Florida man was arrested after he tried to claim that the wind blew a coke baggie into his car, according to a report. Joseph Zak, 37, was busted trying to throw something away when he was pulled over in Fort Pierce last month for failing to pause at a stop sign, the Smoking Gun reported. Police searched his car and found a crack pipe in the center console as well as a clear baggie with white residue, which later tested positive for crack cocaine. When questioned about the baggie, Zack said that it didn’t belong to him and the…

Tuesday, 26 November 2019 05:52

Conan the dog gets hero’s welcome at White House after raid

A U.S. military dog that played a starring role in the raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seemed oblivious to the praise that President Donald Trump heaped on it Monday at the White House. Conan, a Belgian Malinois, seemed much more interested in the head scratches it was getting from Mike Pence, repeatedly looking up at the vice president in search of more attention. Trump used a slew of adjectives to describe Conan, which was injured when it was exposed to electric wires in the late October raid while chasing al-Baghdadi at the terrorist’s compound in northwest…

Monday, 18 November 2019 05:27

Lion discovered in residential building at high-brow Victoria Island, Lagos

A two-year-old lion has been discovered in a residential building in Victoria Island area of Lagos State. The lion said to be owned by a yet to be named Indian national, is caged at Number 229, Muri Okunola Street in Victoria Island. Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences, Mr Yinka Egbeyemi, confirmed this on Sunday. According to him, men of Nigeria Police Force have been deployed in the area. Egbeyemi also disclosed that efforts were ongoing by the state government through Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to evacuate the animal from the building. He added that…

Saturday, 09 November 2019 05:16

Convicted murderer says his life sentence has been served after he was revived 5 times

An Iowa inmate serving a life sentence says he should be a free man after he became ill, momentarily died, and had to be revived at the hospital. But the courts are having none of it. Benjamin Schreiber was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1997 after being convicted of first-degree murder. In March 2015, he developed large kidney stones that led to septic poisoning, according to court documents. He eventually fell unconscious in his cell and was taken to a local hospital, where he was resuscitated five separate times, the documents say. According to the Iowa Court…

Saturday, 09 November 2019 05:15

Man dies while trying to complete 50-egg eating challenge

A man died after trying to eat 50 eggs in an eating competition in India after collapsing unconscious when he reached number 42. Subhash Yadav, 42, had gone to Bibiganj market in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur district with a friend to eat the eggs when a row reportedly broke out between the pair, police said. The two friends decided to settle the argument by eating 50 eggs in a challenge, with the winner getting Rs 2,000 (£21). Mr Yadav accepted the bet and managed to devour 41 before he suddenly collapsed and fell unconscious upon eating number 42, according to Gulf…

Sunday, 03 November 2019 05:34

Evil sprits come to trouble us in Govt House, governor cries out

Anambra State Governor, Mr Willie Obiano, yesterday raised the alarm that there were evil spirits in the Government House. Consequently, he has urged the church to pray so that the evil spirits would leave the State House. The governor made the confession through Secretary to the State Government, Mr Solo Chukwubelu at Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka during the Province of Niger Anglican Prayer Rally of Anambra State (APRAS) 2019 with the theme “The Righteous shall Flourish like Palm Tree.” The governor, whose confession came as a reaction to the ministration of the Bishop of Ogbaru, Mr Prosper Amah, who had…

Sunday, 03 November 2019 05:17

The man who can't grow old: Farmer, 34, is trapped in a child's body

A 34-year-old man in has been trapped in a child's body due to brain injuries he had when he was six. Farmer Zhu Shengkai from the province of Hubei claimed his body stopped growing after he was hit in the head by a stone in his childhood. The man, who also works as a hairdresser, said: 'I am still like a child, therefore I cannot have a wife or child.' He then joked: 'I cannot grow old.' Speaking to Chinese media from his home in a village near the city of Wuhan, he added: 'Although I am 34 years old,…

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Saturday, 02 November 2019 05:28

No one believed him when he said he hadn't been drinking. Then researchers found his body was producing alcohol

When a man in North Carolina was pulled over on suspicion of driving drunk, police didn't believe him when he said he hadn't had any alcohol. The man, in his late 40's at the time, refused to take a breathalyzer test and was taken to a hospital, where his initial blood alcohol level was found to be 0.2% — about 2.5 times the legal limit and the equivalent of consuming 10 drinks an hour. Despite the man swearing up and down that he hadn't had anything to drink, doctors didn't believe him either. But researchers at the Richmond University Medical…

Friday, 01 November 2019 05:48

Man who helped draft laws ordering adulterers to be flogged is flogged for adultery

An Indonesian man working for an organisation which helped draft strict religious laws ordering adulterers to be flogged has himself been whipped after he was caught having an affair with a married woman. Mukhlis, who is a member of the Aceh Ulema Council and only goes under one name like many Indonesians, was beaten 28 times with a rattan cane in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh on Thursday. Mukhlis grimaced and flinched during the punishment, before his married companion was brought to the stage and flogged some 23 times. Flogging is a common punishment for a range of offences…

Monday, 28 October 2019 06:01

Woman texted father’s number every day after he died. She got a response 4 years later

A 23-year-old woman in Arkansas lost her father four years ago, but she continued to text his phone every day to update him about her life. She never got a response from the number, until this week. Like she did every day, Chastity Patterson, of Newport, texted her father’s number on Thursday, the night before the fourth anniversary of his death. “Hey Dad it’s ME,” she said. “Tomorrow is going to be a tough day again!” In her texts, Patterson recapped all of the highs and lows she had gone through over the past four years without her father by…

Saturday, 26 October 2019 05:39

96 year-old man weds woman, 73, in Abuja

Agrarian village of Kiyi in Abuja went agog on Thursday, October 17, when 96 year-old Mr AbdRahman Munse-Bwaye married his heartthrob, 73 year-old, Rukaya Yamwa-Piri. The solemnisation of the marriage took place at Piri, a village in Kwali Area Council. The new wife, who moved into her husband’s residence from the wedding venue said she was “delighted to marry a gentleman like AbdRahman’’. Munse, said to be about the oldest man in Kiyi village in Kuje Area Council, claimed many people discouraged him from the “Nikkah’’ (marriage in Arabic), saying that he was too old for marriage. He said that…

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