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‘World’s best chef’ Benoit Violier found dead at Swiss home
THE ‘world’s best chef’ Benoit Violier has been found dead at his Swiss home. Violier, 44, has taken his own life just months after his three-star restaurant Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in the small Swiss town of Crissier was named the best in the world. The Frenchman was due to attend the launch of...
Top 5 scariest places on Earth
If travel broadens our horizons and horror heightens our senses, then the two combined pack a powerful punch. From a temple crawling with thousands of rats, to an island swarming with flesh-melting snakes – question-and-answer site Quora uncovered some of the most disturbing, bone-chilling and goosebump-inducing places on...
Packing on the PDA! Mel Gibson puts on an amorous display as he locks lips with 24-year-old girlfriend Rosalind Ross in Sydney
He's in Australia filming his latest blockbuster Hacksaw Ridge, but it isn't all work and no play for Mel Gibson. The 60-year-old actor-turned-director was seen packing on the PDA while enjoying a romantic waterside stroll with his much younger girlfriend Rosalind Ross, at the weekend. The pair were admiring the view...
Watch Donald Trump turn COCKNEY in comedian’s hilarious YouTube spoof
British funnyman Peter Serafinowicz has turned his comic talents towards sending up the controversial Republican presidential candidate With more than 500,000 people signing a petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from the UK, perhaps the presidential hopeful needs a new way of addressing us Brits. And funnyman...
Funniest Celebrity Selfies Of All Time
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a selfie is worth...
Guatemala’s toxic river of trash that is attracting thousands of ‘miners’ risking life in search of gold and jewellery
Amidst a torrent of grey, toxic water, these are the men who call themselves ‘miners’ as they risk their lives in search for gold and jewellery in a garbage-filled gorge. The water spews from a drainage tunnel and surges along the ravine, tumbling along trash that has fallen from Guatemala City’s landfill...
Hacker exposes private data of America’s biggest police union
A hacker has breached the computer systems of the Fraternal Order of Police, the biggest police union in the US. Files containing private information of officers, private forum posts and contracts were included in the data dump. The anonymous hacker shared the data as a 2.5 GB torrent file on a blog called Cthulhu on Thursday,...
Two-wife minimum? The polygamy hoax that spread from Iraq to Eritrea
A false rumour that men in Eritrea would be legally obliged to marry at least two women went viral this week. But it's a hoax that has hit at least four countries to date, and actually began in Iraq, where it wasn't as implausible as it seems. When a far fetched story about enforced polygamy in Eritrea began...
Rock star David Bowie leaves $100m in will
Rock star David Bowie left an estate valued at about $100m (£70m), according to his will which has been filed in New York. Half will go to his widow, Iman, along with the home they shared in New York. The rest is shared between his son and daughter. It was also revealed that Bowie had requested that his ashes be scattered...
United Nations confirms 69 cases of alleged abuse in 2015 peacekeeping missions
THE UN human rights office says it has turned up six more cases of alleged sexual abuse against children by European troops in Central African Republic, including a seven-year-old girl who said she had to perform sexual acts on soldiers in exchange for water and cookies. A UN team recently interviewed five girls and a boy who...
Black German woman learns a shocking family secret: Her grandfather was a Nazi
Atlanta, Jennifer Teege thought she knew the hard truths of her life: that her German mother left her in the care of nuns when she was 4 weeks old, and that her biological father was Nigerian, making her the only black child in her Munich neighborhood. But the hardest truth came to her years later on a warm August day in...
Thousands protest against Vienna ball funded by far-right party (PHOTO)
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Austrian capital of Vienna chanting pro-refugee slogans to protest the annual Academics’ ball. The event, attended by German-language student networks, is deemed to be a meeting place for nationalists. Several protests were announced for the night of the ball, which is...