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Kent, United Kingdom: British police in called to the home of 66-year-old Antoine Denis by worried neighbors apparently had other things on their mind than the dead guy slumped on his back in the bedroom. Presumably, they chalked the up to natural causes – because the undertakers called the...

This seven-pocket pool table set into the top of a 21-foot speedboat is more than just an interesting looking way to part with a whole lot of money – $55,000 (USD) of it to be precise. The boat was built as a memorial to professional water skier Brian Rix,...

Frederic von Anhalt, the count husband of the gravely ill 93-year-old actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has said that he hopes to have her plastinated after she dies. He told the Bild: My wife has always dreamt that her beauty would be immortal. I would like to show the plastinated...

At least 18 people have died while mushroom picking in Italy this year – not one of them from accidental poisoning. In their quest for delicious fungi, the hapless ‘shroomers all fell victim to dangerous terrain. They fell down crevasses, gorges and rocky slopes. The Lombardy region claimed 7,...

This is disgusting. And once again, adds proof to my theory that people should be interviewed before having kids. A couple in South Korea has been arrested after they starved their newborn baby to death. It wasn’t an intentional starving. They were just too busy raising their virtual daughter...

Cristian Capatanescu succumbed to multiple organ failure on a Bucharest hospital bed awaiting surgery that would have helped him to lose weight – he was 54. At the time of his death the 184-centimeter-tall man weighed in at around 400 kilograms. Capatanescu’s weight made him the fattest man in...

Six workers at a factory in India died after drowning in a giant vat of tomato sauce. The Indian Express reported that a female worker slipped and fell into the 6m deep tank vat. Five colleagues jumped into help and all six were killed by the fumes given off...

El Paso, Texas: A 30-year-old Mexican national who was being held on drug-related charges was found crushed to death in a landfill. Carlos Roberto Medina-Bailon’s was found after investigators traced the trash route taken by a garbage truck that serviced the prison. Sheriff Richard Wiles explained what he believed...

When a pair of brothers approached police officers in Pilibhit district, India and told them that they had killed a hardened career criminal – they were met with disbelief, until they saw the boys’ blood-stained sleeves. After hearing the two boys, aged five and seven repeat, “Humne Mahendra ko...