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If you thought it was tricky to get into university today, you haven’t seen anything yet. An entrance exam paper taken from 1895 has recently gone viral on social media and it shows just how much harder it was to earn a place at uni over 100 years ago. The …

If you work in an office you should checkout this story to see what your colleagues will look like in the next 20 years. We all know sitting at a desk for long periods of time has negative effects on our health, but if this life-size model of what an …

A woman, Tiffany Guest, 29, has been arrested and jailed by police after she abandoned her dog and two cats when she moved out of her flat in 201, leaving them starve. Guest locked her cats Reggie and Ronnie and dog Kray in her flat in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, and moved …

If you want healthy plants, some people say that you should talk to them. If you want to make delicious cheese, try playing hip-hop music. If you want healthy plants, some people say that you should talk to them. If you want to make delicious cheese, try playing hip-hop music. …

With flames rising from their hair, a viral video has shown how wedding guests put their lives at risk in a bizarre drinking game. The ‘hooray Henrys’ were among six who took turns pouring the liqueur Sambuca over their heads. One set himself alight and rubbed his blazing head against …

A man who witnessed his wife being raped faces eight years in prison for chopping off the attacker’s penis. The 27-year-old husband was on his way home when he saw Dmitry Ivchenko strangling his wife by the throat and raping her in Shevchenkovo, eastern Ukraine. Ivchenko covered her mouth with …

A man kept six people in the cellar of a remote farm for years ‘waiting for the end of time’. The people kept there include five adult children and their sick father. They were only discovered when the eldest boy – now a man – stumbled into a nearby cafe …

When you want to eat in a nice restaurant the last thing that comes to your mind is environment of the dead. But operators of a restaurant in Ukraine believe the nicest way to have a fantastic meal is in a coffin. No one can really explain what drove these …

A married prison officer who had sex with an inmate in a cleaning cupboard during an 18-month affair has been jailed for a year. Rachel Welburn started a relationship with Daniel Crompton after she became his designated personal officer at Frankland Prison in Durham, United Kingdom. Crompton was serving life for …

Student Josh Mayer was so annoyed when his school told him he could no longer wear his Tesco trousers to lessons that he returned the next day wearing a skirt. The Year 10 pupil claims he was taken out of class at Swavesey Village College following the rule change. The …