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A Doctor on Why Patients Lie to Their Physicians
April Fool’s is here and everyone has a get-out-of-free card for the most inventive lie. Aside from the holiday of hoax, most people lie on occasion to avoid consequences or spare another person's feelings. But your doctor will tell you that fibbing may be harmful to your health. While many people lie to doctors for...
Tom Fallis Murder Trial: Wife’s Parents Say They’re in ‘Complete Shock’ Over Verdict
The parents of Ashley Fallis, the wife of Tom Fallis, who was acquitted of murder charges Thursday in connection with her shooting death, said they are in “complete shock” over the not guilty verdict. “I don’t understand how they came to the conclusion that they did,” Ashley’s mother Jenna...
Google April Fool Gmail button sparks backlash
Google has removed an April Fool's Gmail button, which sent a comical animation to recipients, after reports of people getting into trouble at work. The button appeared beside Gmail's normal send button and allowed users to shut down an email thread by sending a gif of a Minion dropping a microphone. However, a flurry...
What is it like to be dead? Patient who ‘died’ says there is NOTHING after death
“Just black emptiness. No thoughts, no consciousness, nothing.” That is the view of the afterlife from a man who has ‘died’ in hospital TWICE. The Reddit user got all philosophical, not to say nihilistic, telling the social media site what it is like to be dead. A man who goes by the screen-name r00tdude...
Trump’s nuclear claims spark global outcry — as he even suggests he would bomb BRITAIN
DONALD TRUMP has sparked global outcry after revealing his nuclear weapons policy — with the US presidential hopeful even refusing to rule out bombing BRITAIN. The controversial property tycoon caused a new storm this week with his claim he is not willing “to take it off the table” when quizzed over whether he...
Missing Texas mom found dead; 3 kids alive in SUV
DALLAS — A Frisco mother who had been missing for days was found dead in her sport-utility vehicle in a McKinney parking lot Thursday evening. Her three children were found alive inside the vehicle and taken to a nearby hospital. Christine Woo and her children — Lauren, 5, Nathan, 3, and Leah, 16 months — had...
Murders, shootings soar in Chicago through first three months of 2016
CHICAGO — Murders in the nation's third largest city are up about 72%, while shootings have surged more than 88% in the first three months of 2016 compared to the same period last year, according to data released Friday by the Chicago Police Department. Police say the disturbing rise in violence is being driven by...
Kristen Stewart’s new girlfriend SoKo dated her former boyfriend, Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson
KRISTEN Stewart’s new love has revealed that she once dated the actress’s old love Robert Pattinson. As if the showbiz world and its relationships weren’t small enough, French musician SoKo has spoken about the time she went on a blind date with the Twilight hunk. The Sun reports that SoKo, 30, who has been...
Teen guilty of killing 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne to be sentenced today
A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fatally stabbed his fellow pupil in the heart during a row over a biscuit will be sentenced today. Bailey Gwynne, also aged 16, died from a single knife wound to the heart after a fight broke out at Cults Academy in Aberdeen in October last year. The 16-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal...
Cameron warns terrorists will use WHATEVER THEY CAN as fears mount over ISIS nuclear bomb
DAVID Cameron has warned world leaders terrorists will use "whatever materials they can get their hands on”. Addressing leaders gathered to discuss the security of nuclear facilities, the Prime Minister said attackers would "like to kill as many people as they possibly could” to wage war against the West....
Would YOU spot these symptoms of the UK’s second biggest cancer killer?
BOWEL cancer awareness month begins today, and health experts are urging Brits to be vigilant in recognising the symptoms of the deadly disease. Every 15 seconds, one Brit is delivered the life-altering diagnosis that they have bowel cancer. In the UK, the deadly disease claims the lives of more than 40 people each day. While...
The strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion
An intriguing article has just been published in the journal Perception about a never-before-described visual illusion where your own reflection in the mirror seems to become distorted and shifts identity. To trigger the illusion you need to stare at your own reflection in a dimly lit room. The author, Italian psychologist...