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Why smartwatches make lousy gifts
If you managed to put down your credit card during Black Friday, last week’s online shopping free-for-all was a remarkable barometer of the items that retailers are desperately trying to get rid...
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'Sinjar cannot be a place of coexistance again': Inside the Iraq city broken...
Sulaiman Omar has not heard from his six brothers or their daughters since the day Isil came to town. The 37-year-old Yazidi fighter lost contact with them – as well as other family members – amid the...
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Here’s one of the UK’s largest gorillas getting a root canal
One of Britain's biggest gorillas has had root canal surgery.Footage shows the operation being performed by specialist Zoo dentist Peter Kertesz and his team.The 28 stone ape is a silverback western...
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China is replacing police dogs with these 'sharp, keen, and brave' animals
“Among all poultry, geese [are known] for being extremely vigilant and having excellent hearing,” Zhang Quansheng, a police chief in Xinjiang’s Shawan county, told the newspaper.The People’s Daily said...
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Airlines have created an unofficial new category for their worst seats —...
Bargain hunters will stop at nothing to bag the cheapest possible flight.It will therefore come as no surprise that airlines have introduced a new category – albeit an informal one – for their worst...
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AUSTRALIA WARNS: ISIS plans on creating a 'distant caliphate' in Indonesia
Australia has warned that Islamic State wants to create a “distant caliphate” in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation.As Indonesian authorities were placed on “high alert” following three...
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A Polish zoo gave a bunch of Christmas gifts to animals
Christmas has come early for the animals at the Gdansk-Oliwa zoo in Poland.They were given special treats to eat that were hidden in boxes wrapped up like Christmas presents."There are surprises hidden...
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Famed investor Marc Andreessen: 'In 20 years, every physical item will have a...
The hype around the Internet of Things has been rising steadily over the past five years.In the tech analyst Gartner's "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies" report in 2015, the IoT is at the peak of...
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Twitter vows to do more to crack down on trolls and abuse (TWTR)
Twitter is giving its users new powers to block internet trolls amid claims abusive behaviour is hampering the social media site from catching up with Facebook.Bruce Daisley, the head of Twitter in...
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An airline passenger posted a Facebook rant about the 'worst flight of her...
A plane passenger complained about “the worst flight of her life” in an epic Facebook rant after being allocated a windowless seat.Nat Pelech complained on JetStar Australia’s Facebook page after being...
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New 'twisting' ergonomic seats could change air travel forever
The "Twister" seat rotates with the passenger to follow the movements of the human spine in an attempt to make long flights more bearableFourteen hours on a long-haul flight to Japan inspired an...
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Using his bare hands a man squeezes out 2 goats from the stomach of a live...
Astonishing video footage has been captured by stunned onlookers showing the unbelievable moment a villager presses the bloated stomach of a 6-feet long python to release two goats.The unknown man...
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Video produced by Barcroft TV.Sixty-seven-year-old Lynea Lattanzio has taken the phrase "cat lover" to new heights by giving up her 4,200 square foot home to more than a thousand rescue cats.Lattanzio...
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People are afraid these 'zombie ships' are the first sign of global economic...
The shipping industry is facing its worst crisis in living memory as years of rapid expansion fueled by cheap debt have coincided with an economic slowdown in China."We are now at the stage where...
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Here's what happens after ISIS is defeated — and it may create a new era of...
Global jihadism has been around in its current form since the 1990s.Back then, few could have predicted that it would become a permanent feature of our new world order– and, some would argue, the...
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'The bodies are just blown to pieces’: Doctors are scrambling to treat the...
After five years of war, the doctor working in a Syrian border clinic thought he had seen everything. But with last week’s Russian bombing raids, there was still worse to come.The latest surge in...
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Google Europe boss: International tax laws should be rewritten (GOOG)
International tax laws should be rewritten so companies are seen to be paying the right amount, a top Google executive has admitted.But Matt Brittin, the technology giant's European president, blames...
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The government is 'peddling hyperbole' to 'scare' voters off a Brexit, says a...
The top business group leader who quit over the weekend to campaign for a Brexit — a British exit from Europe — says the government is being "highly irresponsible" by fearmongering in the debate.John...
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That one time when Kim Jong Un manned a Soviet submarine that's been obsolete...
The following post was originally published on June 14, 2015. We are republishing after news that North Korea lost one of its submarines at sea.The admirals of the Soviet Union declared North Korea’s...
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Donald Trump's butler for almost 30 years shares his demanding boss'...
Donald Trump’s butler has seen it all.From the times that Ivanka Trump, the owner’s daughter, ordered the gardeners off the grounds so that she could swim in the pool naked, to the day the historic...
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