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Christian Bale will not play Steve Jobs
When Apple unveiled its Apple Watch, the company said the starting price would come in at US$349, but insider sources are claiming the stainless steel version will start at $500. Those sources also say the high-end gold Apple Watch Edition will start between $4,000 and $5,000, which is lower than many have been expecti...
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Reports: Boko Haram may release schoolgirls as part of deal
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Republican senator and frequent Mideast traveler said Thursday that the Taliban detainees released from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have been in touch with members of the al-Qaida linked Haqqani network, yet all five still are being monitored in Qatar. The Pentagon said Thursd...
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So, There Might Be a Rat Infestation at Vogue
Rajasthan, Oct 14: A man learnt a lesson, the hard way. Attempting to rape a teenager in public cost him his penis. A 46-year old man, Suresh Kumar was seen pinning a teenager to the wall in Ganganagar in Rajasthan. The next moment, he saw his penis chopped off and thrown on the road. He was dragged and taken to a loca...
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This College Student Claims She Was The 'Teletubbies' Sun Baby
Breaking news: The Teletubbies’ solar infant deity is none other than an English 19-year old. Which 'Oogieloves' star (yes, there are actual stars) should be most embarrassed? 'Teletubbies' recap: Po voted out of the pod! The folks at the Mirror U.K. report the true identity of the baby as Jess Smith, a dance-education...
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ISIL Beheads American Photojournalist in Iraq
James Wright Foley, an American journalist kidnapped in 2012, was beheaded in an ISIS video released on Tuesday, August 19. The video is titled “A Message to America.” A figure in a black robe with a gun strapped on his person and a masked hat covering his face, apart from his eyes, appears in the video next to Foley...
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So, There Might Be a Rat Infestation at Vogue
(CNN) -- A member of the Sugarhill Gang, whose pioneering hit "Rapper's Delight" brought hip hop to mainstream audiences 35 years ago, died Tuesday of complications from cancer. "Big Bank Hank," whose real name was Henry Jackson, died early Tuesday in Englewood, New Jersey, according to David Mallie, who manages the tw...
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Absent from duty for 25 years, CPWD official dismissed
Bale, a longtime favorite for the role, is back in the mix after talks with Leonardo Dicaprio fell through Christian Bale may play Steve Jobs in Sony's Aaron Sorkin-scripted biopic after all. The actor is now in talks for the role for director Danny Boyle, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. As ...
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This Is What The Sun Baby From ‘Teletubbies’ Looks Like Now
14.3K 3077reddit70 32 (RNS) When Pope Francis recently sought to comfort a distraught boy whose dog had died, the pontiff took the sort of pastoral approach he is famous for — telling the youngster not to worry, that he would one day see his pet in heaven. “Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures,” Francis said r...
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'The youngest martyr - the cub of al-Baghdadi': ISIS boasts a 10-year-old fighter has been killed as he went into battle with his father in Syria
THE hunt is on to find the owner of a dog who was abandoned at a railway station with its belongings in a suitcase. Kai, a male Shar-Pei crossbreed was found tied to a railing outside Ayr station in Scotland on Friday. Now animal welfare charity the Scottish SPCA are trying to find who left him there. The charity ma...
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Meteorite leaves crater in Nicaraguan capital Managua
A disturbing video posted online appears to show the beheading of American journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped while covering the Syrian conflict in 2012. In the video a man who appears to be Foley, dressed in orange, kneels beside an armed man clad in black. Foley delivers a statement condemning U.S. action in ...
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NET Extra: Back-from-the-dead Catholic priest claims God is a female
Description: Fake news / Satire Circulating since: Feb. 2015 Status: False (see details below) Example #1: Via WorldNewsDailyReport.com, Feb. 4, 2015: CATHOLIC PRIEST WHO DIED FOR 48 MINUTES CLAIMS THAT GOD IS A WOMAN February 4th, 2015 | by Barbara Johnson Boston| A Catholic priest from Massachussetts was officia...
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Rumor debunked: RoboCop-style robots are not patrolling Microsoft's campus
If you ever visit the Microsoft campus in the Silicon Valley and hear a mechanical voice shout "Ex-ter-min-ate!", don't be too spooked. It just means some geek humor has gone a little crazy. Microsoft's campus in Silicon Valley will be patrolled by a team of five security guard robots from a company called Knightscope...
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Ottawa shooting: Sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers hailed a hero for shooting rampaging gunman
This is Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers who reportedly shot a gunman inside Centre Block. FOX News reported: The gunmen then ran to the Parliament building, where witnesses later said they saw one gunman down near the library. Bernard Trottier, a Toronto-area MP, tweeted that the gunman inside Centre Block “has been s...
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Soldier shot near Canadian parliament building
At least 25 suspected Boko Haram insurgents were killed in clashes between soldiers and the Islamist militants in northeast Nigeria and five civilians were killed in fighting elsewhere in the region, a military source and residents said on Monday. A ceasefire agreement between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government wa...
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'There is no limit to their depravity' Islamic State FEED mother her own SON
The Indian government has sacked a civil servant who went on leave in 1990 and never came back to work. Urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu said a case of "wilful absence" had been proved against electrical engineer AK Verma. Mr Verma had been under investigation since 1992, but had refused to co-operate, the...
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Report: Christian Bale Just Bailed on the Steve Jobs Movie
Yes, we've known for a while that Christian Bale might be the next actor to portray Steve Jobs, but Variety now seems mighty sure: the publication is reporting that our favorite Batman will indeed play our favorite technology pitchman in Sony's new movie. Mind you, Variety technically says that Bale is merely "in talk...
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Insurgents killed in Nigeria despite alleged truce with Boko Haram
The Nigerian military says it has reached a cease-fire with the violent militant group Boko Haram and that the more than 200 young women kidnapped by the group earlier this year will be freed, the BBC reports. "They've assured us they have the girls and they will release them," said an aide to President Goodluck Jonath...
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‘Evil straight from the pits of hell': American journalist James Foley reportedly beheaded by ISIS
We’ve all seen the traditional depictions of God as a cloud-dwelling figure with a flowing mane and a white beard. But now, a Catholic priest in America has apparently claimed that God is female, after he officially died for 48 minutes following a massive heart attack. According to an unverified report, Father John M...
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Report: Christian Bale Drops Out Of Steve Jobs Biopic
30-year-old Moscow resident was hospitalized with wounds very intimate nature. As it became known LifeNews, in the hands of doctors, the man complained that his casual acquaintance opoila in the sauna, and then gently held his castration operation. And actions criminals were executed with surgical precision - woman sew...
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Audio recording of Michael Brown being gunned down WAS made at the time he was killed: App company appears to confirm tape of ELEVEN bullets being fired - including final volley of 'kill shots'
A hoax story alleging the British graffiti artist Banksy has been arrested and has had his identity revealed has once again duped thousands of people online. According to the highly refutable website National Report, a 'news' website consisting entirely of fake stories, the artist was arrested by Metropolitan Police a...
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After Giving A Homeless Man $100, This Guy Secretly Filmed Him...
While child entrepreneurs have become increasingly common in the last decade, not many hit the lofty heights that 17-year-old “teen wolf” Mohammed Islam reached when his trading earnings reached the “high eight figures.” As the New York Post reports, Islam, a teenager from Queens, still lives at home with his parents,...
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Not coming to a store near you: The pumpkin spice condom
THERE are unconfirmed reports that jihadists fighting for the Islamic State have contracted Ebola. Local media outlets reported that cases of Ebola have showed up at a hospital in the IS-controlled city of Mosul, in Iraq, Mashable reported. Iraq’s official pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, claimed that the disease...
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ISIS Leader Killed: Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Reportedly Killed By U.S. Airstrike
The CBI has booked Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in connection with alleged forced castration of followers inside his ashram in Sirsa, Haryana. Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh CBI files case against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh over forced castration IANS The agency ...
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IS Beheads Briton David Cawthorne Haines, Threatens to Execute Another Briton, Alan Henning
Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, might be leading the hermit kingdom instead of her brother, a recent report from Seoul-based think tank, North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity (NKIS) revealed. According to NKIS on October 1, Kim Jong-un — who has failed to appear at official events si...
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Nigeria, Boko Haram reach ceasefire deal, kidnapped girls to go free, official says
Central Bedfordshire Council has refuted newspaper reports which suggested it was about to issue an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo) to a six-foot mechanical bear. The polar bear, named Bernard, is situated outside the Loft Cafe in Shefford and performs Christmas carols to passers-by but a story in the Bedfordshire ...
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ISIS Executioner 'Jihadi John' Is Named as Mohammed Emwazi
LONDON — The man in the black balaclava who has seemed to have beheaded several foreign hostages in Islamic State videos has been identified by British security services as Mohammed Emwazi, a British national from London. Known in the news media as “Jihadi John,” he is said to have been born in Kuwait and traveled to ...
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Nicaragua asks U.S. for help investigating meteorite crater
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (AP) — Authorities testing remains found in nine mass graves in southern Mexico have yet to find any of 43 teachers college students who disappeared after a confrontation with police, security officials said Tuesday. None were among 28 bodies, some badly burned, that were unearthed a week after th...
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No, Vladimir Putin did not get pooped on by a bird during a First World War speech
In quite recent news, J J Abrams has reportedly said at the Visual Effects Society Awards (2015) that he may release his extremely anticipated film, Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens. instead of winter he may move his film down the line for a summer release! This is an extremely brave move (if true) as it puts...
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Boy who suffered powerful electric shock claims he now has 'superpowers' like X-Men's Magneto as metal objects stick to him
A schoolboy almost killed by an electric shock from a street lamp now claims he has ‘magnetic superpowers’ like Magneto from X-Men. Nikolai Kryaglyachenko, 12, had been walking home after school when he lent briefly against the lamppost that was live from a faulty wire, and was blasted across the pavement. He says th...
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Meteor Leaves 40-Foot Crater Near Managua's Airport
Forget sweater weather and crisp autumn leaves; these days, the true arrival of fall seems marked by the arrival of Starbucks' infamous pumpkin spice latte -- at least on the social media sphere. This year, a rumor surfaced that the sticky sweet craze had spawned an entirely different pumpkin spice-flavored item: con...
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After Giving A Homeless Man $100, This Guy Secretly Filmed Him...
(CNN) -- Boko Haram laughed off Nigeria's announcement of a ceasefire agreement, saying there is no such deal and schoolgirls abducted in spring have been converted to Islam and married off. Nigerian officials announced two weeks ago that they had struck a deal with the Islamist terror group. The deal, the government...
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Robert Plant ripped up $800M Led Zeppelin reunion contract
(Reuters) - A mysterious late-night blast in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua that left a crater 12 meters (40 feet) wide was most likely caused by a meteorite, government scientists said on Sunday. The loud explosion occurred around 11 p.m. on Saturday on the outskirts of Managua near the airport, said Wilfried Stra...
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Report: 4 ISIS Terrorists Caught at Southern Border in 36 Hrs
A prominent religious scholar in Saudi Arabia has reportedly issued a fatwa against building snowmen in the kingdom, stating the practice is not acceptable to Islam. Mohammad Saleh Al Minjed said people must not build any snowmen or snow models of animals, according to Gulf News. However, making snow models of lifele...
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Nicaragua asks U.S. for help investigating meteorite crater
A disturbing video posted online appears to show the beheading of American journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped while covering the Syrian conflict in 2012. In the video a man who appears to be Foley, dressed in orange, kneels beside an armed man clad in black. Foley delivers a statement condemning U.S. action in ...
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Catholic Priest Dead For 48 Minutes, Is Miraculously Revived – His Revelations About God Are Even More Shocking
Claim: Eleven passenger planes are missing from an airport in Libya. PROBABLY FALSE Example: [Collected via email, September 2014] Seeking truth in stir of 11 missing / stolen commercial airliners from the Libyan airport during the fall of Tripoli. Origins: In early August 2014, some North African bloggers began to...
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Apple Watch to Be Shower-Proof, Have 100,000 Apps at Launch: Reports
Knightscope co-founder Stacy Stephens said rumors that its K5 security robots are roaming Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus are not true. Sorry to rain on the rumor mill's parade, but RoboCop-style robots are not patrolling Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus. The rumor took shape after California-based Knightscope sho...
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Moment Michael Brown was shot dead 'caught on audio recording': FBI handed potentially damning tape of ELEVEN shots being fired - including final volley of 'kill shots'
Apple may be planning to hold a special event during the month of February, according to French Apple-focused website iGen [Google Translate] (via iDownloadBlog). The site's sources, which are often reliable, suggest that the event might take place during the last week of February, potentially on Tuesday, February 24. ...
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Apple Users Add Hairgate to iPhone 6 Problems
Big Bank Hank, the New York rapper who, as part of the Sugarhill Gang, released what is generally regarded as the first rap record, has died at the age of 57. The performer, real name Henry Jackson, died from kidney complications due to cancer, according to reports. Jackson formed the Sugarhill Gang with Master Gee a...
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Airport worker strips naked at Russian airport
AN AIRPORT worker has become an unwitting star on the internet after he stripped down naked in front of heavy-handed security guards. Georgy Myakinkin, 31, who works at the airport in the city of St Petersburg in north-western Russia said he had finished his shift and was going home when he remembered he had left his ...
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Tour, agent: Tiger Woods not banned
Seth Rogen will play Steve Wozniak alongside Christian Bale, who has been cast in the role of Steve Jobs in Sony's upcoming Jobs biopic, reports Variety. Rogen will have the opportunity to get advice directly from Wozniak, who is working as a consultant on the film. Rogen is a popular actor who has starred in movies l...
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Don't forget to tip...especially if you spend $300,000
Iraqi Member of Parliament Ali al-Bredi has claimed that Islamic State (IS) militants are using Chlorine gas against Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah. In a press conference on Monday, al-Bredi revealed that IS have killed 300 Iraqi soldiers with chlorine gas. He said that the militants deployed the gas in the Siqiliya area...
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UPDATE: Internet report of Ebola outbreak in Purdon not true
We're just over a week away from learning a whole lot more about the Apple Watch, but The New York Times has just revealed a few more details about the new smartwatch. Apple employees involved with the project tell the paper that there will be a special battery stretch feature called "Power Reserve." The low-energy mod...
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Matt Taibbi takes a leave of absence from First Look Media
It was a heartwarming story for legions of pet owners and animal lovers around the world. Pope Francis, talking to a distraught boy whose pet had died, declared there was a place in heaven for the creatures we share our lives with. His comment was reported this week by many news media outside Italy, with dozens of art...
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Conde Nast's rat problem at One World Trade Centre: From red carpets to rodent droppings
A statement attributed to the Islamic State group claimed that an American female hostage was killed in a Jordanian airstrike on Friday on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the extremist group’s main stronghold. Jordan launches new airstrikes after vowing harsh war on ISIS Dozens of Jordanian fighte...
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Has North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un been replaced by his sister?
A video posted by ISIL terrorists in Iraq purports to the show the beheading of an American photojournalist who has been missing since 2012. The group claims the beheading is a message to President Obama to end the American intervention in Iraq. James Foley is a photojournalist who has worked for several news organiza...
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Macaulay Culkin Hasn’t Died Despite What Everyone Is Saying On Facebook
Macaulay Culkin is dead? The Home Alone actor was the victim of a celebrity death hoax this week. A fake news story was published at a fake website this week claiming that Macaulay Culkin was found dead at his apartment. The fake news story reads: “Sources are reporting that Macaulay Culkin, best known for his role a...
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Predator Drone Reportedly Spotted Over ISIS Hotbed in Syria; Airstrikes Hit ISIS Targets
New Delhi: AK Verma, an executive engineer at the Central Public Works Department, was fired after last appearing for work in December 1990. "He went on seeking extension of leave, which was not sanctioned, and defied directions to report to work," the government said in a statement on Thursday. Even after an inquiry f...
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Mexico Says Students Not Among Dead in Mass Grave
There may be yet another bug in iOS 8, Apple's latest version of its mobile operating system for iPhone and iPad. This time, some users are reporting that anybody trying to reset the settings on their iPhone could accidentally delete all of their documents saved in iCloud, Apple's online backup service. MacRumors repo...
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A viral photo in China shows how to manipulate App Store rankings the hard way
Apple Watch owners may never need to worry about being outbid in an eBay auction again, as a new job listing posted by the Internet auctioneer suggests advanced development of a bespoke Apple Watch app. Those familiar with eBay know that keeping tabs on live bids is crucial to winning an auction, and eBay is apparentl...
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Low-level marijuana possession could soon land you a ticket instead of arrest in New York City
update An Iraqi official today denied that a woman detained in Lebanon yesterday is the wife of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as confusion continues to reign over the identity of a woman and child captured by the Lebanese army near the border with Syria, AP reported. Iraqi Interi...
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New ISIS Video Shows Militants Seizing Weapons Airdropped By US Near Kobani
Eleven commercial jets have reportedly been stolen in recent weeks in Libya, and Western intelligence agencies have begun warning they could be used in terror attacks on Sept. 11, the anniversary of the devastating Osama bin Laden-orchestrated attacks on New York and Washington that left nearly 3,000 dead. According to...
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Isilkulskom student has gained superhero powers after shock
Claim: Eleven passenger planes are missing from an airport in Libya. PROBABLY FALSE Example: [Collected via email, September 2014] Seeking truth in stir of 11 missing / stolen commercial airliners from the Libyan airport during the fall of Tripoli. Origins: In early August 2014, some North African bloggers began to...
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Has Kim Yo-Jong Taken Over For Kim Jong Un? Sister Assumes North Korea State Duties While Brother Undergoes Medical Treatment
Robots are increasingly replacing humans in a variety of mundane tasks, like bolting a car together or making lollipops, but now they are moving into the security business. Microsoft recently installed a fleet of 5-feet-tall, 300-pound robots to protect its Silicon Valley campus. The robots are packed with HD security...
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[UPDATED] 11 Men and 0 Women on Tonight's ESPN Domestic Violence Panel
Call it Newton’s third law of Apple analysts: For every extreme reaction one way, there is an equally extreme reaction the other. In this case, what that means is that while some doomsayers are happy to write off the Apple Watch as the worst thing Apple has done since building its own smartphone, taking on the music i...
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IRAQI HEALTH OFFICIAL: EBOLA HAS KILLED 5 ISIS FIGHTERS
No suspected cases of Ebola have been found in Iraq, despite reports to the contrary in Iraqi media in the past week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Describing reports of suspect cases of the deadly viral infection in Mosul as "rumor", the Geneva-based United Nations health agency said it and the...
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Durex Is Not Making Pumpkin Spice Condoms After All: A Hoax Debunked
Here at Consumerist HQ, we were both intrigued and horrified when a plausible-looking mockup of a pumpkin spice flavored condom spent the weekend circulating around the Internet. If pumpkin spice gum and bacon condoms can exist, why not? Alas, the wrapper circulating online isn’t real, even though some people kind of w...
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KIM JONG-UN NECKS SNAKE WINE FOR VIRILITY
Kim Jong-un has been guzzling litres of rare snake wine to perk up his love life with wife, it has been reported. The cases of the pricey plonk with the body of a deadly cobra inside the bottle were delivered at the supreme leader's palace in North Korea, the Daily Star reported. Locals believe snake wine helps men g...
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Matt Taibbi Disappears From Omidyar’s First Look Media
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Could Kim Jong Un open a restaurant in Scotland?
Two U.S. officials say they believe American journalist James Foley was the victim executed by ISIS militants as shown in a grisly video released Tuesday. Separately, Foley’s family confirmed his death in a statement posted on a webpage that was created to rally support for his release. In the statement, Foley’s moth...
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Government fires employee who skipped work for 24 years
The move comes after the actor's talks with Fox to star in 'The Deep Blue Goodbye' hit a roadblock Less than two weeks after Leonardo DiCaprio broke off talks with Sony to play Steve Jobs, the studio has set its sights back on Christian Bale. See more Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films Sources say Sony is beginning nego...
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British-born rapper is main suspect in search for ISIS jihadist who beheaded James Foley
Islamic State militants and sympathisers are triumphantly circulating images of a 10-year-old boy they claim has been 'martyred' while fighting alongside his father in Syria. Describing the child as ISIS' youngest jihadist, chilling photographs taken before his alleged death show him smiling at the camera, wearing mil...
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Nun gives birth, intends to keep baby
INNOVATIVE might not be the first word that comes to mind when describing US telephone and cable company Comcast. But are we giving the company credit where credit is due? Let’s face it, after a harrowing 18-minute customer service call went viral in July, it looked like Comcast had nothing more to strive for — it had...
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Canadian woman 'captured by ISIS in Syria' says she is actually fine and still fighting the jihadists, despite kidnap reports
Welsh actor Christian Bale has withdrawn from the role of Steve Jobs in a forthcoming biopic of the Apple entrepreneur. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bale decided he "was not right for the part after much deliberation and conflicting feelings." The as-yet-untitled biopic, which is coming out of Sony's studios, ...
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Indian civil servant sacked 'after 24-year sickie'
An official of the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), who has been on furlough for the past 25 years, has been dismissed from service. On Thursday, Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu issued orders to dismiss A.K. Verma for unauthorised absence from duty. Mr. Verma, who joined the CPWD as an assistant ex...
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Missing Planes
Investment firm Piper Jaffray issued a report on Monday breaking down expected Apple Watch average selling prices, saying an aggregate of consumers will likely spend closer to $550 on the device, considering case and internal storage options. Building off Apple's quoted starting price of $349, analyst Gene Munster ant...
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Was Heart-Tugging Viral Video Of Generous Homeless Man All A Hoax?
While child entrepreneurs have become increasingly common in the last decade, not many hit the lofty heights that 17-year-old “teen wolf” Mohammed Islam reached when his trading earnings reached the “high eight figures.” As the New York Post reports, Islam, a teenager from Queens, still lives at home with his parents,...
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Nigeria and Boko Haram 'agree ceasefire and girls' release'
WATCHERS of North Korea's secretive regime believe it could be planning another surprise move, a restaurant in Scotland. The Cambodia eaterie Leader Kim Jong-Un has already opened a diner in Amsterdam, with the 'Pyongyang' chain of restaurants also having branches in China and parts of Asia. It has been reported that...
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Soldier, Gunman Killed In Shooting Incident Near Canadian Parliament
TORONTO – A Canadian soldier was shot at the War Memorial in Ottawa Wednesday morning, and multiple shots were fired inside Parliament Hill. According to a witness, the shooter had black hair, was wearing a grey jacket and a scarf. Witnesses reported gunfire inside the halls of Parliament, including a dozen shots out...
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Ottawa Shooting: Soldier Shot at Canada's National War Memorial
WATCHERS of North Korea's secretive regime believe it could be planning another surprise move, a restaurant in Scotland. The Cambodia eaterie Leader Kim Jong-Un has already opened a diner in Amsterdam, with the 'Pyongyang' chain of restaurants also having branches in China and parts of Asia. It has been reported that...
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No, Banksy Didn't Create That 'Charlie Hebdo' Tribute Cartoon, But That Doesn't Mean You Can't Appreciate It
(Reuters) - First there was bendgate... now brace yourself for hairgate. Fresh from the online uproar over whether the shiny new iPhone 6 bends when carried around in pockets, Apple has been hit by a new complaint - that the handset traps users' hair or beards when they make calls. It is difficult to gauge whether th...
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UPDATE: Soldier, gunman who died in Ottawa rampage identified
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was named as the suspected shooter after he (and possibly others) allegedly opened fire at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada, Wednesday, CNN reported. Zehaf-Bibeau, a Canadian citizen from Quebec, was born in 1982, CBS News reported. JUST IN: U.S. officials tell CBS News the name of the...
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Guru who ordered 400 followers to be castrated 'so they could be closer to God' is investigated for grievous bodily harm in India
Elusive graffiti artist Banksy’s cover was blown when he was unceremoniously arrested for vandalism, conspiracy, racketeering and counterfeiting. Well that’s what US website the National Report would have you believe. The bogus story alleged the infamous street artist was arrested following a raid on his London studi...
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Daash Ebola transferred to Mosul {Google Translate]
An Israeli-Canadian woman who traveled to Iraq to fight alongside the Kurds there earlier this month has been abducted by Islamic State fighters, Hebrew media reported Sunday, citing Syrian jihadist-linked media. Gill Rosenberg, 31, was captured by jihadists near the flashpoint city of Kobani in the past few days, rep...
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Apple was forced to nix key health features from its smartwatch -- report
What happened when Texas City plumbers put a black pickup truck up for auction more than a year ago? This week, Mark Oberholtzer is among those trying to piece together the story. An Islamic extremist group in Syria was photographed opening fire off of the back of that very same F-250 truck — the company’s name and ph...
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Has North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un been replaced by his sister?
Vice Media CEO and co-founder Shane Smith, whose billion-dollar company was accused of underpaying its employees earlier this year, spent $300,000 on dinner at a Las Vegas hotel last month. MGM Resorts International revealed on an earnings call Tuesday that unidentified guests had enjoyed a $300,000 meal in January. O...
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North Korea directive reveals apparent ban on sharing Kim Jong-un’s name
Sometimes just quitting your job isn’t enough, sometimes you have to make a lasting statement on the way out. That’s exactly what one iPhone game developer did in the game ‘Electric Boogie’ by dumping all over his boss and Apple. In the iPhone game ‘Electric Boogie’ one developer managed to sneak in a few hidden anima...
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Pentagon Denies It Killed ISIS Chief As Airstrikes Hit Top Extremists
Leading up to the somber anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, there are fresh fears of possible 9/11-style attacks taking place across North Africa as radical Islamist groups in Libya have reportedly seized nearly a dozen commercial airliners in the last month. While counterterrorism officials are rep...
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ISIS leader ‘killed’ in US airstrikes
YouTube user JoeyTrombone had an extra special gift for his parents this Christmas, and when they open the envelope to see that their mortgage has been paid their reaction is as heartwarming as you would imagine. I mean, these people were cuddling on the couch even before they got the news. I have no specifics on how ...
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Vice Media CEO Shane Smith Spent $300,000 on Las Vegas Dinner (Report)
A woman who claims to be the girlfriend of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps revealed in a Facebook post that she was born intersex, a fact she has not previously revealed to Phelps, among others. Taylor Lianne Chandler, 41, wrote a lengthy post describing her early life, saying that at birth she had male genitalia with ...
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What TBS’s Sped-Up Seinfeld Reruns Tell Us About the Sorry State of America
In this week's edition of lies, fakes, pranks and cheats on the Internet, we bring you a spray-painted penis on a very expensive car. Seriously. It all began with a picture of a poorly drawn penis on the hood of a $2.5 million Bugatti Veyron that appeared on Reddit. Image: Imgur But as the automotive blog Car Crushi...
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Guantanamo Detainee Exchanged for American POW Attempts a Return to Battle
"At least 10" Islamic State (ISIS) fighters were captured trying to cross the Mexico border into Texas, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California claims, but the Department of Homeland security has called his statements "categorically false." Hunter told Fox News he learned the information from the Border Patrol, saying "they ...
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Is Kim Jong-un's Sister, Kim Yo-jong, Running North Korea In His Mysterious Absence?
One passenger at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. is apparently not taking any chances. A female passenger dressed in a hazmat suit — complete with a full body gown, mask and gloves — was spotted Wednesday waiting for a flight at the airport. Another traveler snapped a photo of the woman and provi...
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An audio recording of the Michael Brown shooting has reportedly surfaced
Editors' note: There are images in this post that some readers may find distressing. Islamic State militants on Tuesday released a video that purported to show the beheading of James Foley, an American freelance journalist who has been missing since he was kidnapped in Syria in November 2012. The authenticity of the ...
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ADVISORY-Islamist rebel leader killed in U.S. strike - Somali government
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was known as 'L Jinny' as a rapper Saturday 23 August 2014 A former rapper fighting with the Islamic State (Isis) in Syria is believed to be one of several British jihadists under investigation following the beheading of James Foley. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 24, was known as L Jinny or Lyricist...
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Iraqi Official Dismisses ‘Unfounded’ Reports That ISIS Fighters Have Ebola
The two biggest news stories of 2014 collided Wednesday when Iraqi media outlets reported that members of the Islamic State group -- also known as ISIS -- had contracted the deadly virus Ebola. But later updates from the World Health Organization and Iraq's Ministry of Health indicate the stories may be just rumors. "...
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Video showing American journalist beheaded believed real, officials and family say
It sure looks like Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Seidel was relieving himself when Lester Holt threw to him during his coverage of the storms in North Carolina. What else could he have been doing?
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McDonald’s Removing Big Mac, Apple Pies And Eliminating Large Size Options
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Vice's Shane Smith got lucky in Las Vegas over the weekend and spent the money on a $300,000 steak dinner at the Bellagio. Bloomberg originally reported the story 12 unidentified guests racking up the large dinner tab. One guest said the party reached 25 people. Vice has received some nega...
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Rare meteorite impact causes blast in Nicaragua's capital, Managua
Islamic State militants have released a video which purportedly shows the beheading of British citizen David Haines, multiple unconfirmed reports said. The 44-year-old aid worker was kidnapped in March 2013. IS Beheads Briton David Haines, Threatens to Execute Another Briton, Alan Henning http://t.co/GOgalAc1mA — SIT...
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Shots Heard In Alleged Brown Shooting Recording [AUDIO]
While laptop sales continue to drop, Apple's MacBook Air has managed to remain popular and perform well. This year, Apple is set to launch a 12-inch MacBook Air, which could just be Apple's biggest product in 2015. After being rumored for quite some time, the new laptop from Apple has just been confirmed by the latest...
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Whiz kid stock picker: I didn't actually make $72M trading
Kids these days. New York Magazine recently profiled Mohammed Islam, a 17-year-old senior at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School who decided to start trading stocks during his lunch break and found himself all the richer for it. $72 million richer, to be precise. Islam, the son of Bengali immigrants from Queens, i...
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Bodies In Mexico Mass Grave Apparently Not Those Of Missing Students
The bodies found in a mass grave were confirmed not to be the missing students.
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Catholic Priest Dead For 48 Minutes, Is Miraculously Revived – His Revelations About God Are Even More Shocking
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The Islamic State (ISIS) incinerated the corpses of five militants who were suspected of contracting Ebola, an Iraqi health official indicated. Faisal Ghazi, member of the Health Committee in Iraq’s council of ministries, said the five were incinerated in Mosul, the ISIS stronghold in Iraq. “The Islam...
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Kim Jong-un relying on ‘cobra wine’ after problems with trouser snake
KFC: Marijuana on the menu? Not likely. A story that began circulating on Tuesday afternoon created a bit of a frenzy, but the fact is, there’s no sign KFC will really be selling marijuana in its stores. The story began at the Racket Report, where it was announced that marijuana profits were hitting such high levels t...
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Tiger Woods PED, PGA Tour Suspension Allegations Retracted by Dan Olsen
Journeyman golfer Dan Olsen retracted claims Tiger Woods had been suspended by the PGA Tour for using performance-enhancing drugs after both the PGA Tour and Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, vehemently denied the claims. Olsen told ESPN.com's Michael Collins "it was only my opinon," courtesy of ESPN.com's Bob Harig. "Ev...
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Tim Cook Reportedly Reveals Apple Watch Waterproofing Has Improved
While local reports revealed Wednesday that the Jordanian King Abdullah will authorize airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, a U.S. official described the Arab monarch as citing a Hollywood movie character when expressing his wrath upon hearing that the militants had burned his countryman...
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Meteorite Leaves House-Sized Crater in Nicaragua’s Capital
As Apple gears up to launch the Apple Watch in April this year, Tim Cook while talking to an employee at the Apple Store spilled some extra information about the wearable before the launch. He also gave a tentative time-frame as to when Apple Pay will be reaching Europe. Also, analysts have predicted what Apple might o...
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Vice CEO Throws Down $300K on Lavish Vegas Dinner
The Consumer Electronics Show draws tens of thousands of tech fans to Las Vegas each year. Some visitors, however, are apparently better-heeled than others. According to Bloomberg, Vice CEO Shane Smith spent a jaw-dropping $300,000 on a dinner at the Bellagio's Prime Steakhouse during CES in January. A group of 12 d...
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Boko Haram: Kidnapped Girls Have Been Married Off, Truce Never Happened
A soldier has been shot at Ottawa's War Memorial in Canada, near the parliament, after a gunman opened fire. The soldier was being treated by paramedics and police rushed on the scene. Witnesses told CBC News that the suspected shooter was carrying rifle. The Canadian parliament building was reported to be in lockdo...
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Elderly Woman Arrested for Kidnapping Neighbor’s Cats & Making Fur Coats
(NEWSER) – Wonder how long a Quarter Pounder with cheese can last? Two Australians say they bought a few McDonald's burgers for friends back in 1995, when they were teens, and one of the friends never showed up. So the kid's burger went uneaten—and stayed that way, Australia's News Network reports. "We’re pretty sure i...
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Brian Williams Demands Apology From Social Media Over Erroneous Urination Reports (Video)
The NBC News anchor clears the record on behalf of victimized Weather Channel meteorologist There was no urinating on Brian Williams‘ airwaves, and the “Nightly News” anchor asked for an apology from social media critics Monday night. See video: Brian Williams on Daughter's Peter Pan Role: ‘I've Listened to Those Da...
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