A 3-year-old girl in Taiwan was reported safe after getting caught in the strings of a kite and lifted several meters into the air.
A girl was taking part in a kite festival in Taiwan when she was caught up by a giant, long-tailed orange kite.
Videos being circulated on social media showed that she was twisted several times above a crowd of adults who tried to pull the kite back to earth. As per reports, the girl was terrified and suffered minor physical injuries in the incident.
Wasu Khan, whose appeal for financial assistance went viral on social media, has caught the attention of Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal who has taken notice of his situation and has decided to offer him financial help. Wasu, who hails from the Jaffarabad district of Balochistan has appeared in several songs of acclaimed singer Shehzad Roy.
According to Government of Balochistan’s spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani, the government will help Wasu in his treatement and provide him other other financial assistance. Shahwani also shared a video of himself meeting Wasu.
In an interview, Wasu has said that he is not only unable to pay his house rent, but he is also unable to provide his family with two meals a day. He had hoped that his message will reach the authorities and they will help him.
A six-year-old girl choked on pieces of a face mask found inside McDonald’s chicken nuggets, her mother claims.
Laura Arber said she discovered this in at least two of the 20 nuggets she had bought for her children from the fast food branch in Aldershot, Hampshire, yesterday.
According to details, the 32-year-old had taken three of her four children to the restaurant to pick up the order. Laura says she saw her daughter having difficulty eating before claiming to find parts of a blue disposal face mask.
She said: “My little daughter just started choking and I put my fingers down her throat to loop it out there was just blue with the sick. I thought what on earth is this? I didn’t even think it could be the chicken nugget but looked over at the box and all you could see was this blue coming out of another chicken nugget in the box of 20.”
“And the mask is cooked into it, like a part of the mixture and it’s clearly a mask. You can see the seam and how solid it is in there.”
She spoke to the manager and claims she was told that the nuggets were not cooked on site.
Laura claimed she did not receive an apology and was shocked that the restaurant did not stop serving nuggets.
The mother added: “And the worst thing was that they carried on serving them. Before I left I said: ‘Are you going to keep serving them?’”
“And they were carrying on serving them and that was the big thing for me. I just couldn’t believe the way the management were handling it.”
“What if I had walked out of the room and my daughter had choked?,” asked the mother. “She could have died. It’s a split second thing. And I am just thinking, we have just come out of a pandemic and there is a face mask in my child’s chicken nugget.”
Laura’s son was born in intensive care and she stayed in accommodation provided by Ronald McDonald House Charities UK for families whose children are very ill in hospital.
She said she had always held the company in high esteem because of the way they helped her but said her experience yesterday left her feeling a disappointed.
A McDonald’s spokesperson said: “We are very sorry to hear about this customer’s experience. Food safety is of the utmost importance to us and we place great emphasis on quality control, following rigorous standards to avoid any imperfections.”
“When the matter was brought to the attention of our staff, we apologised, offered a full refund and asked the customer to return the item so we could further investigate the matter and isolate the affected product.”
A kitten died after a 15-year-old boy along with his friends allegedly gang-raped it repeatedly for over a week.
According to a viral social media post by an animal shelter, which has also widely been shared by other animal organisations and the general public, the kitten was adopted by the family of the boy who abused it many times until she died after suffering from crushed internal organs.
The posts revealed that the kitten couldn’t sit, walk, eat or sleep due to the pain and trauma. “The culprits used shopping bags for the act which were left inside the poor cat,” the posts claimed.
The vet confirmed that the cat was abused but refused to write it on paper to avoid involvement in the case.
Upon inquiry, one of the culprits’ mother refuted the allegations and said, “My son hasn’t done this.”
Meanwhile, the incident has sparked outrage and many people, including celebrities and journalists, have strongly condemned the incident, urging the authorities concerned to take action against the culprits.
Meanwhile, government officials say no formal complaint has so far been lodged.
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Ukrainian news anchor Marichka Padalko was in the middle of a live news bulletin when her tooth fell out. However, she kept her calm and did not stop the broadcast.
In a video which is being circulated on social media, Marichka quickly put her hand to her mouth to catch the loose front tooth and continued with the bulletin.
“Yes, I lost part of my front tooth today during the live broadcast of TSN at 9:00,” Padalko wrote on Instagram, according to a translation. “This is probably my most curious experience in twenty years as a presenter. Live broadcasting is wonderful because it is always unpredictable.”
The newscaster said her dental problem happened about a decade ago when her young daughter knocked her in the mouth with a metal alarm clock.
Padalko said that her news program “deliberately” did not post her recent disaster to YouTube, for the sake of discretion.
“Honestly, I thought the incident would go unnoticed…. But we underestimated the attention of our viewers,” the anchor explained.
Padalko thanked fans for their support.
“We keep calm in any situation,” the journalist concluded. “See you tomorrow morning.”
A video doing rounds on the internet shows a police constable rescuing a dog from a canal. Superintendent (SP) Hassan Jahangir Wattoo took to Twitter to applaud the police constable.
He shared the video with the caption, ‘A dog fell into a canal and couldn’t get out. A KP Police Constable can be seen rescuing it to safety. Kindness towards all living beings is our motto.’
In the video, the police officer can be seen pulling the animal from the canal as the stray dog was struggling to come out.
People on the internet cannot stop praising the police constable for his kindness towards the animal.
A student of 10th grade accidentally shot himself while recording a video for TikTok.
As per reports, the boy Abdul Samad, a resident of Abbottabad was filming a video with a pistol when he accidentally pulled the trigger, critically injuring himself.
The body was taken to a nearby hospital for medico-legal formalities. The body of the deceased has been handed over to the family after post-mortem.
TikTok is a Chinese video-sharing social networking application used to create short dance, lip-sync, comedy and talent videos.
A case was registered against a woman who slapped and misbehaved with a traffic warden who stopped her for parking her car in a no-parking area in Lahore’s Liberty Market.
In a video doing rounds on social media, a traffic warden requests a woman not to park her car on the road as it is a no-parking area. In response, the unidentified woman started abusing and slapping the warden on his face and giving him threats.
The warden then could be seen calling women police constables to arrest the woman for violating traffic rules and hitting him. He filed a complaint at the Gulberg police station after which a case was registered.
According to reports, the incident took place two days ago when the woman had wrongly parked her car on a main road near the Liberty Market exit that resulted in a traffic jam. Warden Furqan asked her to park the car properly on the side. The woman started abusing and asked the warden to speak to her father. Upon his denial, the woman allegedly slapped the warden and escaped from the scene.
As the video went viral on social media, Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) retired Capt Syed Hammad Abid ordered raids for arresting the woman. A police team raided her house, but could not find her there. Her vehicle was detained.
However, a sessions court in Lahore granted bail to the woman today (on Thursday). The court directed the woman to deposit a surety bond of Rs50,000 to secure her bail.
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s words have yet again landed him in crosshairs of the general public as well as opposition leaders, who are training guns at him for calling notorious terrorist and al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a “martyr”.
Making a rare appearance in the National Assembly (NA), Imran on Thursday took the floor and among other things, elaborated how Pakistan had been humiliated despite having sacrificed lives in the war against terrorism.
“The way we helped America in the war on terror and the humiliation that my country had to face. I don’t think there has ever been any other country that supported war on terror and had to face criticism from them. If they are not successful in Afghanistan, Pakistan is held responsible for that too,” he said.
The premier went on to add that the United States (US) “martyred” bin Laden in Abbottabad.
“Pakistanis were deeply embarrassed when Americans killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. Shaheed kar diya [was martyred]. But what happened after that? The entire world hurled abuses at us. Our ally [the US] entered our country and killed someone without even telling us. It was a big humiliation,” he said before going on to describe the drone attacks as the second set of incidents that embarrassed the country.
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Osama bin Laden was killed in a military operation by US Navy Seals in 2011 in Abbottabad — a few kilometres away from the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) — and ended a nearly 10-year search for bin Laden, following his role in the 9/11 attacks on the US.
“Whose side are you on? The head of al-Qaeda, a terrorist organisation, who died in Abbottabad or the 70 to 80 thousand Pakistani civilians and military men who laid down their lives in the war on terror?” Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair said while reacting to Imran’s statement.
He, however, wasn’t the only one the premier’s speech attracted a strong reaction from. Here’s what Twitterati have to say:
Meanwhile, a viral clip showed former foreign minister Khawaja Asif also calling Imran out in his speech on the floor of the Lower House.
Addressing the NA, he reminded the premier that Osama bin Laden was responsible for instability in the region, especially Pakistan, and was nothing but a terrorist.