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US Lawmaker: Ten ISIS Fighters Have Been Apprehended Coming Across Southern Border (Video)
A 31-year-old Canadian-Israeli woman who traveled to Iraq to join the Kurdish fight against the Islamic State group reportedly has been abducted by ISIS. Gill Rosenberg, 31, a former Israeli soldier, was captured after three suicide bombings near Kobani, the Times of Israel reported. The SITE Intelligence Group said j...
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Nigeria announces truce with Boko Haram; fate of schoolgirls unclear
ABUJA, Nigeria — The leader of Nigeria's Islamist extremist group dashed hopes for the release of 200 kidnapped girls Saturday, denying reports of a truce with the government. In a new video message, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says the schoolgirls have converted to Islam and married off. "The issue of the girls...
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James Foley Killer ‘Jihadi John’ Believed to Be Former London Rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary
The British security services MI5 and MI6 have identified the British member of the Islamic State jihadist organization who is suspected of murdering American journalist James Foley, according to the London-based Sunday Times newspaper. The newspaper attributed the information to "senior government sources." The Sund...
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400 men cut their testicles off believing it would help them meet God
Multi-millionaire religious "guru" Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh persuaded around 400 of his estimated 50 million followers worldwide to cut off their own testicles to "bring them closer to God". The details of the bizarre incident have only just come to light despite reportedly taking place in 2000 at a hospital run by Ram...
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BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN BATMOBILE STOLEN
Mexico's attorney general says DNA tests have shown that 28 bodies found in a mass grave are not those of a missing group of students. Jesus Murillo Karam said further tests were being carried out on four other recently discovered grave sites. The 43 students went missing three weeks ago amid violent protests in Igua...
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ISIS Militants In Mosul Have Contracted Ebola, Iraqi Media Sources Claim
Islamic State brutes fed a distraught woman searching for her kidnapped son some meat and rice – and then told her she had just eaten her son, according to a British man who joined the fight against ISIS. Yasir Abdulla, 36, of Yorkshire left his wife and four kids to battle the maniacal extremists in his Kurdish homel...
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That ESPN Domestic Violence Panel You Keep Hearing About Isn't Real
On Friday, Esquire.com's Ben Collins wrote a blog post in which some awkward phrasing made it appear as though tonight's episode of Monday Night Countdown on ESPN will feature a special panel discussion on domestic violence. Here's how his post starts: On Monday night, a panel on a two-hour pregame show for Monday Ni...
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Meteorite strike in Nicaragua puzzles experts
Nicaraguan officials say a meteorite gouged out a crater near the nation's capital city over the weekend, but scientists aren't so sure. A committee formed by the Nicaraguan government determined that a new, 39-foot-wide (12 meters) crater found near the capital Managua's international airport was blasted out by a spa...
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Banksy arrest hoax: US website claims street artist caught in Watford
Over the weekend, NBC anchor Lester Holt cut to a satellite feed in Sugar Mountain, NC, for a report from weatherman Mike Seidel. Except Seidel apparently wasn’t ready to go on air and appeared to be urinating in the woods. After he finishes whatever he’s doing, he appears to then zip up his fly and put his gloves back...
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Meteorite Leaves House-Sized Crater in Nicaragua’s Capital
Apple would never lower itself to rubbing elbows with the unwashed masses at CES, but it does like to throw out a few announcements during the show to get under everyone’s skin. Cupertino has been quiet thus far, but rumors are swirling about a 12-inch MacBook Air refresh, and this isn’t just a spec bump. Apple is repo...
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Kurt Sutter Announces Plans For ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Movie Starring Charlie Hunnam, Brad Pitt
HBO plans to launch its stand-alone Net video service next month on Apple TV and other devices, according to the International Business Times. The news generated a bump in Time Warner (TWX) stock, pushing it to $83.80. Shares closed at $83.08, down 0.1%, and were down slightly (0.15%) in after-hours trading at $82.96...
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Op-Ed: Hoax – Priest who never existed claims he died, saw female God
"Eh-oh!" A 19-year-old student is claiming that she (yes, she!) was the giggly baby sun that kids saw each week on the PBS show Teletubbies. Jess Smith made the reveal during a recent game with her college friends. PHOTOS: Stars that got their start on TV Smith is currently a freshman at Canterbury Christ Church Univer...
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Kurds fear Isis use of chemical weapon in Kobani
A DESPERATE mother was tricked into feasting on cooked meat from the body of her son by Islamic State militants, it has been claimed. The famished Kurdish mother had gone to plead with the jihadists to release her son. Cruel militants delayed talks with the elderly mum – feeding her a meal made with the corpse of her...
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Pentagon: 1 weapons bundle seized by militants
In a new video posted online, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claims it has captured weapons and ammunition dropped by the U.S. military that was intended for Kurdish forces defending an embattled Syrian city near the Turkish border. The airdrops Sunday were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S...
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Tropical spider 'burrowed under man's skin through scar' - video report
Boston - So lately, tongues have been wagging due to a recent story of an elderly priest who died and had a conversation with God, and a female God at that. The story has been dancing around on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. It's also sallied across the seas and made it into the African media and the Indian media. The ...
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280 Pound Catfish: Fisherman Makes Huge Catch In Italy, Catfish Could Set Record
The proposal went off with a different kind of bang than Dim Xiong Chien had expected when his fireworks set the college ablaze A blundering Romeo who wanted to propose to his girlfriend with a big bang burnt down his college when fireworks he took to mark the event set fire to dry grass. Dim Xiong Chien, 22, had tak...
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Missing Mexico students not among 28 bodies found in mass grave
A secret government document has been leaked revealing the "administrative order", telling authorities to ensure no one else is named "Kim Jong-un". And if people don't agree, then to "train them" to change it. It is believed anyone with the same name would be forced to have official documents, identity cards and eve...
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Islamic State claims to have beheaded American journalist
American photojournalist Luke Somers, held hostage by al Qaeda in Yemen, was killed Saturday in a failed rescue attempt, his sister said. There was no immediate comment from Washington about operation, which Yemeni officials said was conducted jointly by the U.S. and Yemen. The British-born hostage's sister, Lucy, tol...
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Return of the Mac: Seth Rogen in talks to star as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in upcoming Steve Jobs biopic
Christian Bale is in talks to play Steve Jobs in Aaron Sorkin's forthcoming biopic, according to Variety's Justin Kroll, citing sources. Leonardo DiCaprio had been under consideration for the lead role in "Jobs," but the actor declined the roll two weeks ago. "Jobs" is based on Walter Isaacson's wildly successful bio...
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Has a woman aborted her baby because it's a boy?
Erdogan argued that the Turkish weapons drop has harmed the fight against ISIS.
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Mexico finds 4 more graves at site of suspected student massacre
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in firm control of his government but has hurt his leg, a source with access to North Korea’s leadership said yesterday, playing down speculation over the 31-year-old’s health and grip on power. North Korea’s state media, which usually chronicles Kim’s whereabouts in great detail, ha...
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#ISIS beheads photojournalist James Wright Foley in a massage to US to end its intervention in #Iraq.
'It's a nonsense', says official North Korea has moved to deny reports its leader Kim Jong-un is planning to open a restaurant in Scotland. The dictator presides over a chain of restaurants known as “Pyongyang”, with international branches already including Amsterdam, and a number of North Korea experts had speculate...
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Vandals add rude paint job to $2.5m Bugatti (but luckily for the owner it all turned out to be a hoax)
A secret government document has been leaked revealing the "administrative order", telling authorities to ensure no one else is named "Kim Jong-un". And if people don't agree, then to "train them" to change it. It is believed anyone with the same name would be forced to have official documents, identity cards and eve...
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Sons of Anarchy Movie? No, Kurt Sutter Announces Charlie Hunnam, Brad Pitt Film Article is Fake
Apple would never lower itself to rubbing elbows with the unwashed masses at CES, but it does like to throw out a few announcements during the show to get under everyone’s skin. Cupertino has been quiet thus far, but rumors are swirling about a 12-inch MacBook Air refresh, and this isn’t just a spec bump. Apple is repo...
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CNN audio: Is this the moment Michael Brown was shot?
A man with a rifle shot a soldier standing guard at the War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, and witnesses said there were further shots fired on Parliament Hill nearby. It was not immediately known if there were further injuries. Alain Merisier. who works at the cafeteria in the Parliament building, told CBC News that s...
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Nigeria, Boko Haram reach ceasefire deal, kidnapped girls to go free, official says
Google has bought about half of Pacific Shores office park.
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Brian Williams slams social media for speculation weatherman Mike Seidel relieved himself on air
A hallucinogenic fungi has been found growing in the Queen’s garden at Buckingham Palace after being discovered by gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh. The television presenter unearthed the fungi at Buckingham Palace for an ITV gardening show called The Queen’s Garden, and said: “I won’t be eating any of that.” Titchma...
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Boko Haram denies cease-fire, leader says he married off kidnapped girls
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is one of the most highly anticipated movies of 2015 that is scheduled to be released during winter. The latest reports, however, claim that J.J. Abrams, the director of the seventh episode of the epic space opera, wants an early release date for his movie. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”...
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Apple Watch to Be Shower-Proof, Have 100,000 Apps at Launch: Reports
When Apple unveiled the Apple Watch, the unveiled three different editions: the Apple Watch, the Apple Watch Sport, and the Apple Watch Edition. The latter model appears to be catered to those who are more interested in fashion and luxury as the watch will be given an 18-karat gold treatment. Sure, we guess it looks go...
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WHO says reports of suspected Ebola cases in Iraq are untrue
A DESPERATE mother was tricked into feasting on cooked meat from the body of her son by Islamic State militants, it has been claimed. The famished Kurdish mother had gone to plead with the jihadists to release her son. Cruel militants delayed talks with the elderly mum – feeding her a meal made with the corpse of her...
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Google Grows With $1.6 Billion in California Office Deals
LONDON — The Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John," who has been seen in videos of hostages being beheaded, has been named as Mohammed Emwazi by the BBC and The Washington Post. The BBC said Emwazi, believed to be a Kuwaiti-born British man from west London, was known to British security services, who chose no...
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NBC weatherman caught urinating in the woods live on air
Actor Judd Nelson, 55, has been forced to confirm that he is alive and well after rumors swept the internet on Sunday morning that he had died overnight. Nelson's 'death' was reported by Foxnews.es, a hoax website which has no affiliation with the television news network. The fake story claimed that the actor, best k...
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The Internet Tried To Make Axl Rose Its Latest Death Hoax Victim
Oscar-winner Christian Bale, who has played Batman and Moses, is about to take on another iconic figure: Steve Jobs. Sources confirm the actor is in talks to star in “Jobs,” Sony’s biopic about the late Apple co-founder. Based on Walter Isaacson’s biography “Steve Jobs,” the real-life drama is directed by Danny Boyle...
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Texas plumber's truck on front line of Syria war
North Korea may have a woman at the helm–Kim Jong-Un’s sister Kim Yo Jong–according to a rash of rumors that have popped up recently. There’s several pieces of the news, with some indicating that the dictator Jong-Un may no longer be in control of the country. Jang Jin-sung, formerly a key member of Kim Jong-il’s pro...
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ISIS Beheads American Journalist James Foley in Video Message to U.S.
NEW YORK — Pope Francis has given hope to gays, unmarried couples and advocates of the Big Bang theory. Now, he has endeared himself to dog lovers, animal-rights activists and vegans. Trying to console a little boy whose dog had died, Pope Francis told him in a recent public appearance on St Peter’s Square that “parad...
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US probing claims ISIS fighters seized airdropped weapons meant for Kurds
The Pentagon admitted on Wednesday that ISIS did in fact get its hands on one of the 28 bundles of weapons and medical supplies that the U.S. dropped to Kurdish forces on Monday. Two of the bundles had missed their marks, but one was destroyed by the U.S. According to a Pentagon spokesman, the wind caused the parachute...
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Sadly, Pumpkin Spice Condoms Aren't A Thing After All
Durex denies rumors of a ‘pumpkin spice’ flavored condom. Oh my gourd it was a hoax! The arousal over a pumpkin spice flavored condom made its rounds on the internet over the weekend, but Durex confirmed that the autumnal-themed birth control is fake. “Durex has heard that people are saying we launched a ‘Pumpkin Sp...
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Catholic Priest Dies for 48 Minutes, Comes Back to Life and Claims God Is Female
Gillian Rosenberg, the Canadian-Israeli woman fighting ISIS with Kurdish forces in Syria, has updated her Facebook page to say that, contrary to reports, she has not been captured by militant forces. “Guys, I’m totally safe and secure,” she wrote Monday. “I don’t have Internet access or any communication devices with ...
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Is this the world's oldest burger? Man claims to have kept McDonald's Quarter Pounder for 20 YEARS
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Country Music Legend Willie Nelson Dies at Age 81
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was attacked in prison and left blinded and paralyzed, a satirical website claimed in a story that quickly went viral this weekend. On Saturday, the site Empire News posted a story claiming that the Boston Marathon bombing suspect was found lying in a pool of blood in his cell in Ft. Devens Detention...
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Animal lovers abuzz over pope’s comments that 'paradise is open to all of God’s creatures'
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WATCH: Stan Beaton cries tears of joy when phone engineers find treasured voicemail recording of his late wife he thought was lost forever
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ISIL video claims beheading of kidnapped journalist James Foley
Islamic State militants appear to have killed missing American journalist James Wright Foley, if a video that surfaced Tuesday is to be believed. Foley was a freelancer who frequently reported for the Global Post and Agence France-Presse about ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. When Foley first disappeared in Syri...
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Big Bank Hank of The Sugarhill Gang is dead at 57
Perth | A 600-pound woman has given birth to a 40-pound baby at Perth’s King Edward Memorial Hospital, a record breaking weight that could possibly make the newborn the largest baby ever born, reports the Western Australian Herald this morning. The baby of gigantic size surprised doctors and staff members who were not ...
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Catholic Priest Dies for 48 Minutes, Comes Back to Life and Claims God Is Female
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Pentagon confirms al-Shabab leader killed in airstrike in Somalia
The US is assessing whether an airstrike on an encampment in Somalia killed the leader of the Al Shabaab terrorist group. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said drones and manned aircraft bombed a gathering of Al Shabaab commanders in a camp in south-central Somalia on Monday. "US special operations forces using manned a...
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WHO investigates media reports ISIS fighters contracted Ebola
Matt Taibbi takes a leave of absence from First Look Media. Taibbi had been tapped to start a satirical website for eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's media outlet. Taibbi's exit is allegedly due to conflict with higher-ups, leading some to doubt the publication's future.
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Unlucky in love man CHOPS OFF own penis because he was fed up with not having a girlfriend
There are Christmas miracles after all. For Joe Riquelme's parents, the miracle came in the form of a plain white envelope containing a handwritten note from their son telling them he had paid off their mortgage. Riquelme, a successful app developer from New York who goes by the YouTube user name joeytrombone, on Thu...
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Hoax 'Banksy Arrested in London' Story Dupes the Internet Again
More than 200 missing schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram may be released as part of an immediate cease-fire agreement announced Friday with the Nigerian government, according to multiple media reports. Nigerian presidential aide Hassan Tukur told BBC Focus on Africa that the cease-fire agr...
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ISIS Beheads American Journalist
A touching tribute to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting posted on an unofficial Banksy Instagram account has been shared more than 100,000 times. Many who shared the poignant drawing online believed it was created by the enigmatic street artist. However a spokesman for Banksy told the Independent: "We can con...
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Christian Bale in Talks to Play Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle's Biopic
Suresh Kumar, 40, was set upon after locals in the Indian city of Ganganagar heard a teenage girl’s screams from down an alley A man accused of trying to rape a teenage girl is in a critical condition after locals hacked off his genitals with a meat cleaver in a butcher shop. After hearing terrified screams, an angry...
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Enormous 20-stone catfish caught with fishing rod in Italy after 40-minute boat battle
Armed US drones, reportedly hunting for Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, were spotted flying over Syrian airspace where the jihadists have stronghold, reports suggest. Residents of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa took photographs of remotely piloted planes flying over the area. Experts have identified the d...
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This Is Why Rumors That ISIS Is Crossing The Border Into The U.S. Aren’t Going Away
U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter this week declared terrorists have been crossing the Rio Grande. The California Republican, speaking to Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Oct. 7, 2014, said he’d learned from the U.S. Border Patrol that Islamic State fighters had been nabbed trying to enter the country from Mexico. "ISIS is coming...
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Everybody Relax, Banksy Wasn’t Arrested And Exposed As A 35-Year-Old Man
Banksy has not been arrested. Let's not bury the lede here, people. The news of his incarceration is, yet again, a hoax. If you woke up this morning to a Twitter feed filled with recycled "OMG BANKSY WAS ARRESTED/WTF BANKSY WAS NOT ARRESTED" exclamations, here's why. This week's fickle rumor started with The National...
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Lego letter from the 1970s still offers a powerful message to parents 40 years later
A powerful message from Lego to parents from 1974 went viral over the weekend - and now the company has confirmed that it is indeed authentic. It was first posted on Reddit by user fryd_ first and informed parents the “urge to create is equally strong in all children: Boys and girls”. Speaking to i100.co.uk, Emma Owe...
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Man discovers spider living under his skin during Bali vacation
An Australian tourist’s holiday in Bali ended horrifyingly when doctors were forced to pull a tropical spider out of his stomach. Medical staff at Bali International Medical Centre said the spider had burrowed itself into Dylan Thomas’s skin through a scar from where his appendix had been removed. The 21-year-old, fr...
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Confusion as Cuba’s Castro mourned instead of Kenya’s Fidel
Islamic State (ISIS) militants claim to have captured a supply bundle dropped by U.S. forces near the northern Syrian town of Kobani. Video posted to a YouTube channel associated with ISIS shows them rifling through packages containing dozens of grenades. The supply package was apparently one of many intended for Kurd...
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Nigeria says it has deal with Boko Haram to release kidnapped girls
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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Apple Watch Pricing to Reportedly Start at $500 for Stainless Steel, $4,000 for Gold
Along with unveiling the Apple Watch earlier this year, the company also announced that the prices for the wearable device will start at $349. French website iGen.fr now claims to have an idea about the pricing of the stainless steel variant, as well as the gold variant. According to the publication, the stainless ste...
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Audio captured at time of Michael Brown shooting, company says
Reports that Comcast will deny Internet service to users of the Tor Internet browser are false, the company says in a new blog post. The browser lets users surf the web with a higher degree of anonymity, making it more difficult for hackers (or the government) to follow them around the Internet. Comcast’s Jason Living...
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Mexico police find mass grave near site 43 students vanished
Danny Boyle is directing the untitled film Seth Rogen is being eyed to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Sony’s Steve Jobs biopic. Danny Boyle is directing the untitled film, based on Walter Isaacson's book and adapted by Aaron Sorkin, which is one of the most anticipated biopics in recent years. Negotiations h...
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Rumor: Gold Apple Watch Edition priced up to $5,000, steel version at $500, will debut on Feb. 14
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is primed and ready for a fresh assault on the streaming-video space. The e-commerce giant will roll out a new ad-supported streaming offering early next year that will be separate from its $99-a-year Prime membership, which includes a video service, sources said. The ad-supported option — part...
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Iraqi media says ISIS militants have contracted Ebola
Chinese people have been given state advice on the adoption of English sounding names – being urged to avoid those that make them sound like a “stripper” and instead opt for ones that imply the bearer is from “a fancy or conservative family”. A report published on the website of CCTV, a state broadcaster, offered read...
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Rats are still running around at Vogue
The World Health Organization is looking into reports that ISIS fighters in Iraq have been showing up at hospitals with Ebola symptoms. According to the pro-government Iraqi newspaper al Sabaah, an unknown number of ISIS militants have shown up at a hospital in the militant-controlled city of Mosul, about 250 miles no...
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Priest who died for 48 minutes says he met God and she’s a woman
It's not every night that a pizza delivery driver receives a $2,000 tip. But that's what happened Thursday to one Ann Arbor driver who delivered a single pizza to a conference room full of more than 200 realtors from Michigan and northern Ohio on Thursday. Pizza House delivery manager Brian LeFevre said he received a...
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Is Kim Jong-un's Sister, Kim Yo-jong, Running North Korea In His Mysterious Absence?
Arrived in the convent of Macerata in June last year, the religious is of South American origin. But the abbess denied: "No sister gave birth to a child." A young cloistered nun, of Bolivian origin and 35 years, gave birth to a baby at the hospital Bartolomeo Eustachio San Severino Marche (Macerata). When she arrived ...
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Kim Jong-un drinks rare snake wine to boost love life!
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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The rats eat Prada at Vogue NY office
L’inspecteur viral avoue que son petit coeur a sauté de joie pendant une micro seconde en voyant cette nouvelle. Comme ont annoncé plusieurs médias (en prenant soin de mettre un point d’interrogation à la fin de leur titre, pour qu’on ne les accuse pas de propager des nouvelles-vidanges), le réalisateur de Star Wars e...
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Media outlets identify 'Jihadi John'
Young North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s health is just fine, his government said Thursday evening, so his sister is probably not running the country. It was said Kim Yo Jong had taken over while her brother underwent medical treatment, but So Se Pyong, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's ambassador to the Uni...
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Islamic State fighters training to fly captured jets — watchdog
When Apple introduced its Apple Watch in September, the company said there would be three editions along with various face options and bands. Customers will literally have dozens of watch configurations to choose from. Only the base model got an official price of $349, however. Now a report claims to have pricing infor...
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Boko Haram Denies Nigeria Cease-Fire Claim
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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Vice Media Chief Said to Pay $300,000 for Dinner for 30
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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American hostage killed in rescue attempt in Yemen - senior official
An attorney representing a man who says he realized he had inadvertently recorded audio of the Michael Brown shooting has provided that audio to CNN: Attorney Lopa Blumenthal says the recording was made during a video chat. The audio captures what seem like 10 gunshot sounds—an initial group of six, then a pause, then...
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Schoolboy who got electric shock from lamppost claims he now has magnetic powers
Google Inc. (GOOGL:US) bought six office buildings northwest of its Silicon Valley headquarters from Starwood Capital Group LLC and Blackstone Group LP (BX:US) in a $585 million deal, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The properties are part of the Pacific Shores Center office park in Redwood City, Califor...
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Dylan Thomas Finds Tropical Spider Burrowed Under Skin
An Australian man rather understandably says his trip to Bali was "ruined" when he had a horrifying run-in with a disturbingly determined spider. Twenty-one-year-old Dylan Thomas's horror story trip began while he was sleeping one night at his hotel: that's when a tropical spider climbed into his bed, burrowed through...
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Pumpkin Spice condoms? Don't fall for this hoax.
Word that Durex was rolling out a pumpkin-spice-flavored condom swept through social media over the weekend: The autumnal-themed birth control may well be just an internet invention, a riff on Starbucks’ wildly popular coffee drink. The photo in the tweet above appears to be an altered version of Durex’s flavored “Tas...
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Macaulay Culkin Victim of Another Online Death Hoax
A catholic priest from Masschussetts, who was reported dead for close to an hour before medics were able to revive him, has made a shocking revelation upon his return to life. The 71-years old priest, identified as, Father John Micheal O’neal, claims he went to heaven and met God, whom he describes as a warm and comfor...
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Rumor: Stainless Steel Apple Watch Will Cost $500, Gold $4,000
Along with unveiling the Apple Watch earlier this year, the company also announced that the prices for the wearable device will start at $349. French website iGen.fr now claims to have an idea about the pricing of the stainless steel variant, as well as the gold variant. According to the publication, the stainless ste...
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'Jihadi John' identified: ISIS killer named as Mohammed Emwazi from West London
This is possibly the best resignation letter I’ve ever seen. No, scrap that. This IS the best resignation letter I’ve ever seen. An iPhone game developer quit his job by hiding a secret message at the end of a game he worked on called Electric Boogie. To see the message you have to get 100 points on the final level. ...
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Senior Western Intelligence Official Confirms London Rapper Abdel Majed Abdel Bary Is A Suspect In The Foley Killing
Abdel Majed Abdel Bary, a 23-year-old London hip-hop artist, has emerged as one of the main suspects in the investigation into the beheading of journalist James Foley, London's Sunday Times quoted counterterrorism officials. Counterterrorism police and MI5 believe Bary is the person who appears in the video posted by ...
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Obama administration DENIES congressman's claim that 'at least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas'
Last year, a Vine from President Obama’s trip to Israel showed just how ridiculously large his motorcade can grow. Assuming that this still really does show Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motorcade, he might not have such a large escort, but there is something a bit suggestive about the formation. Please, tha...
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UK spies identify Foley’s killer, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary a key suspect
British Intelligence officials have zeroed in on a suspect in the on-camera ISIS murder of American journalist Jim Foley, and he is widely believed to be a slim, light-skinned rapper from London. Though the MI5 and MI6 agencies are not releasing the man's name, reports say Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary — also known as “Lyri...
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Brian Williams Debunks Peeing Meteorologist Report On ‘NBC Nightly News': Video
Media outlets have identified "Jihadi John" - the suspect featuring in several Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant beheading videos - as Mohammed Emwazi from London. The Washington Post newspaper named Emwazi and said he was a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with ...
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No One In North Korea Is Allowed To Share Kim Jong Un's Name
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has agreed to a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped school girls, according to Nigerian officials. The girls were abducted six months ago from a school in Chibok. Nigerian government officials claimed on Friday to have struck a two-part deal with Boko Haram, incl...
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Did a Meteorite Impact in Nicaragua over the Weekend?
On the same day Michael Brown was buried, a Ferguson man released what he claims to be new evidence in the case. CNN is reporting that the audio is from an unnamed man who says he was having a video chat with a woman when shots rang out on August 9. In the recording, as the man speaks to the woman, a quick series of sh...
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Rumor: Apple to hold event this month to unveil Retina MacBook Air & finalize Apple Watch specs
This is it! Don't get scared now!...because Kevin McCallister is alive and well, folks! Days after the Twittersphere blew up with reports that "Home Alone" actor Macaulay Culkin passed away, reps for the former child star have said news of his alleged death is simply a hoax. Home Alone Hey, it's not the first time he...
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Fidel Castro Rumors Sweep Internet, but No Sign in Cuba
A Catholic priest from Massachusetts had been dead for 48 minutes before he was miraculously resuscitated. However, it is his description about God that is bound to spark a hot debate about the almighty. Father John Michael O’Neal was officially declared dead for more than 48 minutes, but medics were able to miraculou...
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'The Force Awakens' Release Date: JJ Abrams Plan for an Early Release of 'Star Wars' Movie?
J.J. Abrams' heavily anticipated "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is currently slated to open in theaters this Dec. 18, 2015. But if there's truth to these recent release date rumors, the sequel could be hitting the cinemas on an earlier schedule. An article from The Telegraph cited two separate "unconfirmed reports" fr...
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Christmas Is Cancelled: Pumpkin Spice Condoms Are a Goddamn Hoax
First famine and war, and now this? Is nothing fair in this world? It is with a heavy heart that I must report that Durex has squashed all rumors that a Pumpkin spice condom has ever existed or will ever exist in the future. And with that news, fall has gotten just a little bit colder and the holiday season seems a li...
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Macaulay Culkin Dead?
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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In Kim Jong Un's absence, his sister may rule. Or not.
On Monday morning, a report surfaced claiming that Comcast has been discouraging customers from using the Tor Browser, a browsing program designed to allow users to surf the Internet with greater anonymity than most browsers. Monday’s report was repackaged on a number of other sites, stating that Comcast has "declared ...
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Boko Haram Cease-Fire: Abducted Nigerian Schoolgirls To Be Released, Officials Say
More than 200 missing schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram may be released as part of an immediate cease-fire agreement announced Friday with the Nigerian government, according to multiple media reports. Nigerian presidential aide Hassan Tukur told BBC Focus on Africa that the cease-fire agr...
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Islamic State using 'SCORPION bombs' to terrorise victims
President Obama said Wednesday that the United States “will be vigilant and we will be relentless” against Islamic State militants and would “do what’s necessary to see that justice is done” following the videotaped execution of an American journalist. “Today the entire world is appalled at the brutal murder of James ...
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Say 'eh-oh!' to the Teletubbies SUN BABY - can you still recognise her after 19 years?
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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Indian 'Rapist' Castrated By Angry Mob Who Hack Off Gentials With Meat Cleaver (GRAPHIC PICTURES)
If you're jonesing for an Apple Watch, you probably want to do a lot with it. But what if you're headed out to a party and would rather not risk staring at a dead screen when you're wondering how late it is? Don't worry, you're covered. The New York Times understands that the Watch has an unannounced Power Reserve opti...
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Vice Media Chief Said to Pay $300,000 for Dinner for 30
NAIROBI: The death of the leader of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels in a US air strike is a "very strong probability," but still unconfirmed, security sources said today. "There is a very strong probability that he is dead.... This requires verification on the ground, which is not simple," said a Western secur...
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Mum faces real-life Sophie's Choice – as she tries to sell her son to fund daughter's care
Update: Since the publication of this article, several people have reported that this may be a hoax. A 'feminist' blog from the US has caused outrage after its author apparently admitted aborting her male fetus based on her negative past experiences of men. In an article so astounding it is difficult to believe it is...
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Newly-Found Document Holds Eyewitness Account of Jesus Performing Miracle
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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Man chops off his penis after his girlfriend breaks up with him
A Macedonian man cut off his penis and threw it in a trash can after his girlfriend broke up with him due to lack of skills in the bedroom. Oliver Ilic, 22, was told that he was no good in bed so he allegedly mutilated himself then threw the remains away, Metro reports. The man told doctors he believes his small peni...
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