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A woman from New Jersey is stuck in a battle to prove that she’s still alive, after she was accidentally marked as dead by the government. Samantha Dreissig, 25, first started having trouble when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) started listing her as ‘deceased’, when her mother died in 2014. …

The government of Japan there has appointed popular Pokémon characters as mascots in a bid to raise awareness of ‘Water Day’. A number of these characters are handling important sectors. Just believe this. A Vaporeon water-type Pokémon has been appointed by Japan’s Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as …

Norway’s women’s beach handball team was fined 1,500 euros on Monday after players opted to wear shorts instead of bikini bottoms at a European championship match in Bulgaria. The European Handball Federation (EHF) said in a statement that its disciplinary commission had dealt with “a case of improper clothing” as …

This is the kind of snake story that can scare anyone away from a city, not to talk of when it happened in your own house. A bizarre incident reported in the United States of America, says a family in Georgia discovered that the space beneath their bed was home …

A frightening video of a king cobra trying to follow a toddler has gone viral on the Internet. It showed the venomous snake, about two metres long, slithering on the shiny floor of a front yard in Vietnam with breathtaking speed as the child played on the floor. His grandfather, …

A 23-year-old tribal woman was allegedly stripped of her clothes and paraded naked by her husband and other villagers as punishment for eloping with another man at a village in Gujarat’s Dahod district, the police said today. A purported video of the incident, which took place earlier this month, went …

Two women escaped with minor injuries after falling off a swing perched on the edge of a 6,300-foot cliff in Russia. They were taking a ride on the swing over Sulak Canyon, located in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, when one of its chains snapped and sent them hurtling off …

A video of the impact of a powerful explosion at a chemical factory on the outskirts of Bangkok last week is now going viral. The video showed how intense the blast was, as it shattered windows into smithereens and dislodged the glass shards at a distance onto the road. The …

This is a record that is very strange to the average food lover. To buy just one burger for $6,000 is something not many people might want to do even in their dream. The Golden Boy, a decadent delicacy made with 100 percent Wagyu A5, Beluga caviar, king crab, white …

This young lay decided to make a loud statement in a simple way at the Cannes festival. For desi influencer Diipa Buller-Khosla, it was the third time walking the red carpet at Cannes. This time, however, was special for Diipa – it was the first time she attended the film …

Officials in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra were faced with such a challenge when a leopard was sighted in the area. The leopard in question was identified to be an adult male that had sustained injuries. In its injured state, it broke into the canteen of a school in the …

A pensioner has had a lucky escape after bungling paramedics pronounced him dead and placed him in a body bag – only for a reporter to notice the bag moving. Raimundo Nonato Santana da Silva, 71, fell off his bike after suddenly falling ill as he travelled to the market …

As study has found that fish are becoming drug addicts because they are getting hooked on crystal meth being flushed down the toilet by humans. It is changing their behaviour, scientists say, with drugs such as Prozac making marine life braver, while illegal drugs can cause withdrawal symptoms when they …

On Monday morning, minutes after her wedding ceremony concluded, a bride in South Indian State of Tamil Nadu, carefully tucked her saree in and gathered her guests around to deliver a spellbinding performance of a 3,000-year-old martial art form. Videos of P Nisha performing Silambam after her wedding have now …

This might be a lesson to kids that grasshoppers may not be as innocent and harmless as people think. This particular grasshopper was in no mood for jokes at all. A video has gone viral that shows the act of scaring a grasshopper out of your house can backfire, especially …