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  • Wife steals frozen human bodies after fighting with husband

    Wife steals frozen human bodies after fighting with husband

    A woman raided her ex-husband’s cryogenics lab and stole frozen dead bodies and brains of people who paid thousands of pounds with hopes of being brought back to life in the future.

    As per reports, the incident happened in Moscow, Russia. The 59-year-old, Valeria Udalova, and staff of her company stole the remains of dead bodies that were stored in her ex-husband Danila Medevdev’s lab. Some of the corpses were from Britain and the US.

    They took out the liquid nitrogen from giant flasks containing frozen bodies and took them along with some detached brains.

    The cops managed to capture the cargo of human remains preserved by “Frankenstein” technology offering humans the chance to “come back to life” in the future.

    “The police could not catch Valeria. She took someone’s brain from the storage and escaped. The brains of our neuro-patients were kept separately, in special metal medical boxes,” Medvedev told the media.

    Both Medvedev and Udalova claim to be the legitimate owners of the human remains.

    The police is investigating the claims of both parties while demanding them to guarantee the “integrity” of the frozen human remains and bodies of dozens of cats and dogs.

  • Police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC

    Police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC

    New Zealand police have arrested two men with a car full of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and over $100,000 in cash as they tried to cross the border into locked down Auckland amid the pandemic.

    As per reports, the men were detained after allegedly trying to flee from police near the Auckland border. When their car was searched, police said they found a large quantity of KFC, as well as the cash and a number of empty ounce bags.

    Auckland is in strict lockdown and restaurants are not allowed to open and citizens are not allowed to order takeaway food.

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    After the KFC arrest, a police spokesperson said “officers noticed a suspicious-looking vehicle travelling on a gravel road, and upon seeing the police car, the vehicle did a U-turn and sped off trying to evade police.

    “The vehicle was searched and police located the cash, alongside empty ounce bags and a large number of takeaways.”

    Close examination of the police evidence photos revealed at least three buckets of chicken, up to 10 tubs of coleslaw, and an a large quantity of fries.

  • Disney fans can now rent Winnie the Pooh house in the woods

    Disney’s Winnie the Pooh is turning 95 this year and to celebrate Pooh’s birthday, fans can now stay at a new Winnie the Pooh-themed house located in the Ashdown Forest in Sussex countryside.

    As per details, the rental house is exclusively designed by Disney-appointed Winnie the Pooh illustrator, Kim Raymond, who has been drawing the iconic bear for over 30 years.

    Photo via Hello Magazine

    Airbnb’s themed house costs £95 per night. Available for a limited time only, Kim will host just two separate stays on the 24th and 25th of September. Official booking dates will go live on September 20 (Monday).

    Perfectly capturing the magic of Pooh’s house, exposed tree branches wrap around the doorway that has been inscribed with ‘Mr. Sanders’ in gold letters, just like in the books. Kitchen cupboards are stocked with ‘hunny’ pots.

    Encouraging guests to embrace their natural surroundings and live more like Pooh, visitors will be taken on a guided tour through the hundred-acre woods. From playing Poohsticks on the iconic Poohsticks Bridge to enjoying locally sourced honey-inspired meals, this is truly a one-of-a-kind staycation. 

    The interior of the Bearbnb (photo via Henry Woide)
  • Newly-wed bride asks groom to bring water, runs away with cash, jewellery

    Newly-wed bride asks groom to bring water, runs away with cash, jewellery

    A bride robbed her husband while going to her in-laws’ in India’s Uttar Pradesh after she sent him to bring water for her.

    As per reports, the groom’s marriage was fixed through a mediator and the latter had mentioned a condition that made the groom’s family pay INR80,000 to the bride.

    The groom named Raju agreed to the condition and gave the money along with jewellery, gifts and clothes.

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    The newly-married couple went to a bus station to leave for home.

    The bride asked her husband to fetch her a glass of water at the bus station, as she was thirsty. After he returned, the bride was not there. She disappeared depriving him of money, gifts and clothes that were given to her, as they were also not there.

    Later, the husband reported the case to the police.

  • Mexican rapper gets ‘gold hair’ surgically implanted into scalp

    Mexican rapper Dan Sur has adopted a new look by getting the chain hooks surgically embedded into his scalp, the New York Post reported.

    The 23-year-old rapper “wanted to do something different”. He underwent the surgery back in April and since then he flaunts his ‘golden hair’ to his social media followers.

    “The truth is that I wanted to do something different because I see that everyone dyes their hair. I hope not everyone copies me now,” he said in one of his TikTok videos.

    “This is my hair. Golden hair. The first rapper to have gold hair implanted in human history,” he added.

    The rapper has also got a matching gold grill recently.

  • VIDEO: Dog interrupts cricket match

    VIDEO: Dog interrupts cricket match

    A dog interrupted the semi-final of the Women’s All-Ireland T20 between Bready Cricket Club and Civil Service North or Ireland Cricket Club in Magheramason.

    The video shows the dog running on the field with its black leash trailing behind it. When the wicket-keeper tried to hit the stumps and missed, the dog hurriedly snapped up the ball and began running away, as players tried to chase it down.

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    The dog finally stopped running after a player calmed it down and retrieved the ball so the match could resume.

  • Nurse makes chandelier with empty Covid vaccine vials

    Laura Weiss, a nurse from the United States, created a chandelier using hundreds of empty Moderna vaccine vials. Pictures of her work were shared on Boulder County Public Health’s Facebook page on September 2.

    “One of our talented Public Health Nurses, Laura Weiss, created this gorgeous piece of art using empty Covid vaccine vials,” Boulder County Public Health said in their post on Facebook.

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    Laura Weiss told CNN she was a retired nurse when Boulder County Public Health asked for help administering vaccines in February.

    “I had noticed all these hundreds and hundreds of empty vaccine vials that were otherwise going to be wasted, and I thought they were just really beautiful and wanted to do something significant and meaningful with them,” Weiss said.

    Weiss got permission to use the glass Moderna vaccine vials and made a beautiful chandelier.

  • Vietnamese court jails citizen for five years for spreading Covid-19

    Vietnamese court jails citizen for five years for spreading Covid-19

    A 28-year-old Vietnamese man has been sentenced to five years in prison for breaching coronavirus quarantine protocols and spreading the virus to others, reports Reuters.

    According to state-run Vietnam News Agency, Le Van Tri was convicted of “spreading dangerous infectious diseases” at a one-day trial on Monday at the people’s court of the southern province of Ca Mau.

    “Tri travelled back to Ca Mau from Ho Chi Minh City and breached the 21-day quarantine regulations. He infected eight people, one of whom died due to the virus after one month of treatment,” the news agency stated.

    Due to the targeted mass testing, aggressive contact tracing, tight border restrictions, and strict quarantine, Vietnam had been one of the world’s coronavirus success stories.

    Ca Mau, Vietnam’s southernmost province has reported only 191 cases and two deaths since the pandemic began, much lower than the country’s capital.

    In the past few months, the vast majority of cases and deaths were reported. So far more than 536,000 cases have been reported.

    Prior to this, the country sentenced two other people to 18-month and two-year suspended jail terms on the same charges.

  • Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards: Laughing snake, other finalists will make your day

    Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards: Laughing snake, other finalists will make your day

    The Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards shortlisted 42 images for its 2021 competition after receiving entries of over 7,000 photos from every corner of the world.

    The final 42 pictures include a laughing vine snake from India, a trio of strutting Gentoo penguins on the beaches of the Falkland Islands and a kangaroo performing a picture-perfect Pavarotti impersonation in Australia.

    Laughing snake by Aditya Kshirsagar, India
    Monday Morning Mood by Andrew Mayes, South Africa
    Directing penguin by Carol Taylor, UK
    Monkey riding a giraffe by Dirk-Jan Steehouwer, Netherlands
    The Green Stylist by Gurumoorthy K, India
    Operatic warm ups by Lea Scadden, Australia
    Did I say you could take my picture? By Patrick Dirlam, USA

    Co-founded in 2015 by professional photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks MBE and Tom Sullam, aimed to create a competition that focused on the lighter side of wildlife photography and help promote wildlife conservation through humour.

    This year’s competition is supporting Save Wild Orangutans and is donating 10 per cent of its total net revenue to the charity.

  • Prince William and Kate Middleton set to leave London

    Prince William and Kate Middleton set to leave London

    Prince William and Kate Middleton are reportedly planning to leave London and set up camp near Windsor Castle.

    According to a Royal Expert, Katie Nicholl “Neither William nor Kate have ever been London people and have never enjoyed the chaos of the city.”

    “Whilst their home at Kensington Palace is highly secure, they have often felt overlooked and that they lacked privacy. The older their children get, the more apparent this has become,” she added.

    If the Duke and Duchess relocate they would be just a few minutes drive away from the Queen. Nicholl, in a video stated, “Windsor seems like the ideal situation. The castle is huge in itself and is the Queen’s permanent residence now but there are other housing options for them.”

    Bringing their kids to school is also pretty difficult because of the busy London roads and moving to Windsor can make the family’s lives easier.

    According to her, everything is on the table and up for discussion.

    Currently, the royal pair reside in Anmer Hall, Norfolk where they will spent England’s third lockdown this winter.