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A crew in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland spotted a pigeon ‘in distress’ after a vehicle fire

China launched the world's first industrial-grade humanoid robot free-combat league, URKL (Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend), on July 16, 2026, in Shenzhen. C...

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“I told the boss, this was not in my job description. They didn’t train me for this.”

Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira faces fraud charges after allegedly persuading family to take her into their home

During the nearly 16 months she lived with the couple in the city of Joinville, she reportedly had all her expenses paid, a bedroom decorated with toys and children’s furnishings, and a party to celebrate her purported 12th birthday.

The couple told police Oliveira first approached them at an evangelical church they attended, introducing herself as “Gabrielle” and claiming to be 18 years old. She reportedly said she was experiencing financial and health difficulties, prompting the couple to take her in.

She later allegedly changed her story, claiming she was in fact 11 but appeared older because her father had forced her to take hormones and had sexually abused her. She also allegedly persuaded the family not to enrol her in school or formalise any adoption process, arguing that doing so could enable her father to find her.

A father who ordered a parenting magazine for his young family in 2007 has finally received it 19 years later.

Paul Edwards, 52, said he bought a copy of Mother & Baby while his daughter was just 18 months and his son was due to be born three months later.

But the parcel never arrived - until Friday when it dropped through the letter box with a message from Royal Mail apologising "for any inconvenience caused".

Edwards, whose children are now aged 18 and 20 and at university, said he found it "just bizarre".

Dawa Sherpa was last seen around May 29 descending the mountain in the Himalayas, but didn't make it to base camp even though his client did. The pair were among the last climbers on the mountain as the climbing season came to an end and the route was dismantled.

Dawa was located by a cleaning crew Thursday morning as he was crawling down the snowy slopes around the Khumbu Icefall, just above base camp, said Pemba Sherpa of 8K Expeditions, which was co-ordinating the search.

He was quickly carried down to safety and given food and water. A rescue helicopter flew him to HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu, where his wife and daughter, who had already begun funeral rituals, were waiting.

A Polish driver was caught smuggling 90kg of cocaine in the lining of the doors of the lorry. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Newlyweds opt to put on professional grappling showdown instead of traditional nuptials; guests lap it up

A couple in southwestern China turned their wedding into a professional wrestling showdown, with the loser agreeing to do the housework for life.

The referee then declared her the winner, announcing that she was “exempt from doing housework for life”.

“Keeping with the idea of the brain as a sponge, we also thought of it as a dirty sponge — how do you clean a dirty sponge?” Costanzo asked.

“You run it under a tap and squeeze it out. In our simulations, we were able to get a sense of how the brain moving from an abdominal contraction can help induce fluid flow over the brain to help clear waste products.” > Maybe those crackpots like Kellogg, with their laxative obsession, were (almost) onto something.

After buying and opening a box, Augustine allegedly replaced the plastic Lego bricks and figures with dried pasta. Investigators told FOX 11 LA that the dried pasta mimics the sound and weight of Lego bricks shifting around when the box is shaken.

The woman got stuck waist-deep in a pit latrine in the Australian outback after it gave way.

KitKat, owned by Swiss food giant Nestle, confirmed in a statement sent to AFP on Saturday, March 28 that "a truck transporting 413,793 units of its new chocolate range has been stolen during transit in Europe." The shipment, weighing around 12 metric tons, disappeared last week while heading between production and distribution locations, it said.

"We've always encouraged people to have a break with KitKat," a spokesperson for the brand said, referring to its catchphrase. "But it seems thieves have taken the message too literally and made a break with more than 12 tonnes of our chocolate."

Glad it was Nestle that got got. Fuck 'em.

Who knew that a creature resembling a giant guinea pig could move so fast and hide so well?

Removal work of a massive steel pipe that burst out of the ground during sewer construction work starts in Osaka.