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Geneva, Switzerland: An extraordinarily talented drug mule’s career came to an abrupt end on the Swiss border when four cocaine couriers were stopped by border officials. Suspicions were alerted when four men in a car with a French license plate tried to avoid border security. X-rays revealed that all...

Four German investors are facing court accused of kidnapping a financial adviser after they lost significant amounts of money in the US property market. The four people, two married couples aged between 63 and 79, and an alleged co-conspirator, are accused of kidnapping 56-year-old James Amburn and holding him...

A 69-year-old man is said to have died after a baboon pushed him off a ramp at a South African homeless shelter. The Independent Online reports that Michael Bates, a resident of the Happy Valley Home in Simon’s Town, died on Sunday from injuries he sustained from a 2-meter...

The discovery a large collection of stolen shoes along Big Elk Creek in Elkton, Maryland, was connected to a suspected shoe thief who may have been operating for up to two decades. Police felt certain that the dumped shoes were linked to a recent theft of shoes and pictures...

The Alaskan owner of a 1958 Piper Super Cub that looked a lot like the one shown above made a terrible mistake. Depending on which unqualified version of events you choose to believe, he either left the plane at a remote fishing spot with a container of bait inside,...

A “pornographic” text message sent from a young man to a woman led to tribal violence that left two dead in Papua New Guinea’s southern highlands. According to Australia’s ABC, the message was sent by a young male member of the Tapo clan to a young female member of...

A 136kg woman was given a non-custodial sentence after the squashing death of her much smaller boyfriend. News.com reports that Mia Landingham of Cleveland sat on the 54.4kg Mikal Middleston-Bey, the father of her three children, after an argument in the August of 2009. He died of asphyxiation. In...

Some might consider it ironic that an Israeli exhibition celebrating the recovery of antiquities from thieves was itself the target of a successful burglary. The Telegraph reports that among the many artifacts at the “Antiquities Theft in Israel” in Jerusalem exhibition was a silver ring once worn by Alexander...

A number of school officials and staff members at a Wellesley, Massachusetts elementary school have been hospitalized after they were injected with insulin. They were supposed to be getting a swine flu vaccination. Superintendent Bella Wong stressed that no students were endangered in Schofield Elementary’s Friday medical mix-up and...