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Police in Telangana, India have ‘arrested’ two goats for grazing on over 150 small trees (saplings) planted by a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) to beautify a hospital premises. The bizarre incident occurred in Huzurabad town of Karimnagar district after the activists on Tuesday caught the culprits’ ‘red-handed and handed them …

A single mother in China was recently arrested after a police investigation revealed that she had sold her twin newborns for 65,000 yuan ($9,100) to settle her mounting debts and buy herself a new phone. According to Chinese newspaper Ningbo Evening News, the woman, who is in her 20s, resorted to …

The patient, who was undergoing surgery which involved a laser being applied to her cervix, passed gas during the operation and ended up being badly burned. It is a fact not as universally known as it should that farts are flammable. Although, those who have seen the 1994 comedy Dumb …

An Indian woman recently made national news headlines for seeking divorce from her husband on grounds that he is so busy studying for the nationwide UPSC examination that he spends almost no time with her. The unnamed woman, who hails from the city of Bhopal,  has alleged in family court …

Mangayamma, a 74-year-old woman in India’s Anthar Pradesh state, recently became the oldest woman in history to give birth, after successfully delivering twin baby girls following an IVF procedure. The Indian woman had married Yaramati Sitarama Rajarao, a farmer from Nelaparthipudi village, back in 1962, but despite visiting countless doctors …

Zao a Chinese artificial intelligence-powered app that allows users to swap faces with actors and other celebrities in videos and GIF images has sparked serious privacy concerns due to how convincing the transformation can be. Uploaded to China’s iOS App Store last Friday, Zao became the number one downloaded app …

A Mexican teacher has come under fire for making high-school students wear cardboard boxes on their heads to block their peripheral vision and prevent them from copying on an exam. Luis Juárez Texis, the director of Campus 01 “El Sabinal” at the College of Bachelors, in the Mexican state of …

A 17-year-old discovered that the painful, growing tumor on her stomach was actually her twin she absorbed in utero, according to Inside Edition. Doctors were surprised to find “hairy cheesy material, multiple teeth and structures resembling limb buds” as they removed the mass from the teen’s abdomen. The mass had …

A Singapore-based businessman has attracted some unwanted media attention after it was reported that he sued his mistress in order to recover $2 million he allegedly loaned her. The problem is she says the money was a gift, so she doesn’t want to give it back. Toh Eng Tiah, the …

Doctors in Hunan, China have extracted no less than 8 embroidery needles stuck in a man’s right buttock, ending a decade-long pain he has been feeling in the butt. For the past 10 years, Chen, a 55-year old retired man from China’s Changsha Province, had frequently experienced a stinging, tingling …