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Saturday, 12 November 2022 05:40

Woman wires her own mouth shut to lose weight

A South African woman allegedly wired her mouth shut with “slimming wires” in a desperate attempt to lose weight for a breast reduction surgery. Aviwe Mazosiwe has been trying to lose weight and reach a certain BMI to qualify for breast reduction surgery that she hopes will improve her quality of life. She had managed to lose 12 kilograms with intermittent fasting, but after reaching a plateau on her weight-loss journey, the South African woman decided to take more drastic measures. In June of this year, she had slimming wires fitted on her teeth. These are orthodontic brackets with wires…

Saturday, 05 November 2022 06:17

Christian monastery possibly pre-dating Islam found in UAE

An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, officials announced Thursday. The monastery on Siniyah Island, part of the sand-dune sheikhdom of Umm al-Quwain, sheds new light on the history of early Christianity along the shores of the Persian Gulf. It marks the second such monastery found in the Emirates, dating back as many as 1,400 years — long before its desert expanses gave birth to a thriving oil industry that led to a unified…

Saturday, 29 October 2022 05:57

Doctor prescribed Coca-Cola for treatment of goose-egg sized gastric stone - and it worked

A doctor in China who prescribed drinking Coca-Cola soft drink as a treatment for a man with a large gastric stone has been celebrated on mainland social media. The patient, surnamed Li, from southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, was surprised after following the doctor’s recommendation that he drink cola for seven days to find the gastric stone was gone, Star Video reported. Li had been experiencing abdominal pain for several days when he went to a local hospital for help. After a medical examination, he was informed he had a goose egg-sized stone in his stomach. The doctor asked…

Saturday, 29 October 2022 05:55

Man who didn't wash for half a century dies at 94

A hermit dubbed by media as "the world's dirtiest man" has died at the age of 94, just months after having his first wash in decades. Amou Haji had refused to use soap and water for more than half a century, fearing it would make him sick. The Iranian, who lived in the southern province of Fars, had avoided previous attempts by villagers to get him clean. But, local media say, Amou Haji finally succumbed to pressure and washed a few months ago. According to Iran's IRNA news agency, he became ill shortly afterwards and died on Sunday. In a…

Saturday, 22 October 2022 06:05

Mosquitoes bite some people more than others. Here’s why

A new study finds that some people really are “mosquito magnets” and it probably has to do with the way they smell. The researchers found that people who are most attractive to mosquitoes produce a lot of certain chemicals on their skin that are tied to smell. And bad news for mosquito magnets: The bloodsuckers stay loyal to their favorites over time. “If you have high levels of this stuff on your skin, you’re going to be the one at the picnic getting all the bites,” said study author Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University in New York. There’s…

Saturday, 15 October 2022 06:06

Woman scammed into paying $30,000 to help ‘astronaut’ return to earth

A Japanese woman was somehow fooled into paying 4.4 million yen ($30,000) to help a “Russian astronaut” she had met online return to Earth from the International Space Station. It’s not often that we feature news stories worthy of an “Idiocracy” sequel, but this is definitely one such rare occasion. To be honest, had it not been reported by two of Japan’s largest news outlets – Mainichi and Kyodo News – we would have dismissed it as a satirical piece by The Onion. But it turns out that a 65-year-old woman from Japan’s Shiga Prefecture really did fall in love…

Saturday, 08 October 2022 06:04

Woman helps husband marry ex-girlfriend

After hearing that her husband and his ex-girlfriend still had feelings for each other, an Indian woman facilitated their religious marriage and agreed to the woman moving in with them. This bizarre love story comes to you from Tirupati, a city in India’s Andhra Pradesh state. Kalyan, a local video content creator, married a woman named Vimala, after the two hit it off on social media. Everything was fine until the woman learned that her husband had a romantic relationship with another Indian influencer from Visakhapatnam who had just moved into their locality and was looking to patch things up…

Saturday, 24 September 2022 06:47

Man who married 53 women in 43 years says he was ‘looking for stability’

A 65-year-old man from Saudi Arabia recently became the talk of the town after it was revealed that he married no less than 53 different women in his search for emotional “stability”. Abu Abdullah married his first wife when he was only 20 years old. She was six years his senior, and for a time, she was all he needed. They had children together and everything was going well, but then problems started appearing in his life and he decided to marry again. At the age of 23, he informed his wife that he planned to take a second wife…

Tuesday, 20 September 2022 04:08

So you have more shoes and bags, FG proposes to stop you from eating ‘ponmo’

Federal government says it is proposing legislation to ban the consumption of animal skin, locally known as ponmo, in the country to revive tanneries. Muhammad Yakubu, director-general, Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST), Zaria, said this in Abuja on Sunday. Yakubu said the legislation was necessary to revive the comatose leather industry in the country. He said the habit of eating animal skin, which has no nutritional value, should be stopped to save the industry and boost the nation’s economy. The director-general added that the institute, in collaboration with stakeholders in the industry, would approach the national assembly…

Saturday, 17 September 2022 06:37

Woman accuses husband of stealing and selling her kidney for profit

A woman in India is accusing her husband of stealing and then selling one of her kidneys on the black market without her consent. Ranjita Kundu, a middle-aged woman from Kodameta, a village in India’s Odisha state, claims that her husband stole and sold one of her kidneys four years ago. She only recently came to know about his actions, after seeing a doctor for abdominal pain and learning that she only had one kidney. The woman claims that in 2018, under the pretext of taking her to a hospital to undergo an operation to remove kidney stones, her husband…

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Saturday, 10 September 2022 06:32

Students tie math teacher to tree, beat him over poor grades

Dozens of students at an Indian school are suspected of tying a math teacher and a school clerk to a tree and beating them, after a number of them received poor grades on an exam. In a shocking incident that took place last Monday, students of the Scheduled Tribe Residential School in Dumka, India’s Jharkhand state, lured their math teacher and a school clerk to the school campus under the pretext of discussing their grades on a recent Class-9 examination only to tie them to a tree and allegedly beat them. Photos and videos doing the rounds on social media…

Saturday, 10 September 2022 06:31

Tech company says it has appointed a virtual robot as its CEO

Online gaming and metaverse company NetDragon Websoft has announced it has appointed a virtual humanoid robot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) as a CEO. Known as 'Ms Tang Yu', the robot executive will serve as a 'real-time data hub and analytical tool' to support decision making within the Chinese organisation. Tang Yu will head up the company's principal subsidiary, Fujian NetDragon Websoft, and act as a symbol of its move to incorporate AI into its management. The tech company has become one of China's most well-respected video game and mobile application developers since it was founded in 1999. It is…

Sunday, 04 September 2022 06:46

Pilot arrested after threatening to 'intentionally crash' into departmental store

A pilot who threatened to “intentionally crash” into a Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi, United States, Saturday morning was taken into custody hours later after landing the plane in a field. Authorities in Tupelo were notified of the plane, believed to be a King Air type, around 5 a.m. The pilot circled around for hours before moving north toward the Benton area, police said in a Facebook update. The pilot eventually set the aircraft down in Tippah County, just outside of Benton, authorities said. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said he was glad the situation was resolved with no injuries. "Thank you…

Saturday, 03 September 2022 06:17

Woman quits job after just 1 of 70 coworkers attended her wedding

A young Chinese woman allegedly quit her job of five years after being disappointed that only one of the seventy coworkers she invited to her wedding actually attended. Chinese news outlet ETtoday recently featured the unusual story of a young woman who took to social media to complain about being humiliated by her coworkers on the happiest day of her life. The unknown woman had reportedly been working for the same company for five years and felt that she had a good relationship with her coworkers. She had attended the weddings of a third of her 70 colleagues, so when…

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