A 14-year-old boy in in Mankweng, Limpopo, SA, brought along a gun to brag about how he could shoot to kill and ended up shooting his friend dead.Edmond Raseona, also 14, from Ga-Mokgohlwa Village, died instantly.The incident happened as the two were attending an extra maths lesson over the weekend. It's believed the boy took the gun from a safe at home.Mankweng police spokesman Captain Mohlaka Ma
A long-held theory that a flight attendant known as "Patient Zero" caused the spread of HIV in America has finally been disproven after scientists analysed archived blood samples.The experts also believe the virus started in New York in the early 1970s, and not Los Angeles in the early 1980s, as had been thought.Gaetan Dugas was identified in a 1987 bestselling book - And the Band Played On by Ran
A teenager whose tongue is the size of a tennis ball goes to sleep each night knowing there is a chance he may choke to death.Krzysztof Wegrzyn, who lives in Grojec in central Poland, was born with a condition called haemangioma.This means he has a benign tumour in the blood vessels of his tongue.Efforts to remove the growth were made when he was a child, but had to be called off because of massiv
An Egyptian woman is believed to be the fattest woman alive after her weight reached 500kg (79 stone). Iman Ahmad Abdulati, 36, from Alexandria in northern Egypt said she had not left home for 25 years because of her weight problem, which got worse and worse. She said that enquiries at local hospitals by her family had not bought a solution, but after her sister Chaymaa' Ahmad Abdulati went public
The financial services industry is already planning to move business overseas due to the uncertainty of the Brexit process, the head of the British Bankers' Association has warned.Anthony Browne blamed fears that European Union (EU) politicians will want to erect trade barriers in an attempt to weaken the City of London during the Brexit negotiations for the planned moves.Smaller banks could begin
A minibus taxi split apart in a crash on the N2 in Durban, SA, that left two dead and one injured, paramedics reported on Sunday.Describing the scene as "carnage", Rescue Care Paramedics operations director, Garrith Jamieson, said after a pick-up truck and minibus collided, "the minibus came to rest on top of the bakkie (pick-up)". The incident occurred on the N2 northbound near the NPC Cement Fac
At least 53 people have died after an overloaded train derailed in Cameroon.The crash also left at least 300 people injured, transport minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo'o said.State radio in the country is reporting that the horrific accident happened in Eseka, which is about two hours away from the capital Yaounde.Local media also reports that Eseka doesn't have an appropriate medical facility, and
A 13-year-old Georgia student who was allegedly "thrown to the floor" by his teacher was scheduled to have his right leg amputated after undergoing four surgeries, his attorney said."As anyone can anticipate, there was certainly an emotional response," the boy's attorney, Renee Tucker, told the Ledger Enquirer.The student, Montravious Thomas, was in class at the Muscogee County School District's
Ex-Premier League boss Harry Redknapp's wife Sandra was seriously injured when she was dragged along a road by his Range Rover.Her foot got trapped inside the car as Harry pulled away after dropping her at the shops.Witnesses to the Bournemouth accident told how she lay screaming with agony as she was dragged along the road by his car in the freak accident.Horrified onlookers said the ex-Premier
Police have charged three men in the fatal shooting of Trinity Gay, the daughter of US track athlete Tyson Gay.Trinity Gay, 15, died after being shot in the neck during an exchange of gunfire between two parked vehicles at a restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky.Police do not believe Trinity was in either of the vehicles involved in the early Sunday morning shootout.Chazerae Taylor, 38, and his 19-yea
Three men have been accused of plotting to target immigrants with a huge terror attack.Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, 49, are accused of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in Garden City, Kansas.The men are members of a small group of white supremacists who calls themselves the Crusaders.Members espouse sovereign citizen, anti-government, ant
South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has blown the lid on the suspicious bank transactions of the Gupta family.In an explosive affidavit filed in court on Friday, Gordhan makes reference to a certain transaction valued at R1,3 billion and refers to various companies owned by the Guptas.The transactions he refers to are believed to amount to about R6 billion. EFF leader Julius Malema onc
The teenager daughter of American Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was shot and killed at a Kentucky restaurant early Sunday morning.Trinity Gay, herself a rising running star, died from a wound suffered after an apparent shootout, according to WKYT.Police said the 15-year-old track star took a bullet to the neck after people in two cars exchanged gunfire outside a Lexington restaurant called Cook Out.T
Four people have died and 14 have been injured after a balcony collapsed during a house warming in western France.They are believed to have fallen three storeys as a result of the collapse in the city of Angers.Authorities in the Maine-et-Loire region said the accident occurred late last night at a recently-constructed building. It is believed they were all students.A spokesman for the city's Univ
A baby born with an adult-sized tongue couldn't eat or breathe unaided after being born with an adult tongue.Paisley Morrison-Johnson, from Aberdeen in South Dakota, was born with Beckwith Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS), and so for the first week of her life, she needed breathing apparatus just to stay alive and without it, she could have choked to death.The disorder, which affects one in every 11,000 b
A 14-year-old boy in in Mankweng, Limpopo, SA, brought along a gun to brag about how he could shoot to kill and ended up shooting his friend dead.Edmond Raseona, also 14, from Ga-Mokgohlwa Village, died instantly.The incident happened as the two were attending an extra maths lesson over the weekend. It's believed the boy took the gun from a safe at home.Mankweng police spokesman Captain Mohlaka Ma
A long-held theory that a flight attendant known as "Patient Zero" caused the spread of HIV in America has finally been disproven after scientists analysed archived blood samples.The experts also believe the virus started in New York in the early 1970s, and not Los Angeles in the early 1980s, as had been thought.Gaetan Dugas was identified in a 1987 bestselling book - And the Band Played On by Ran
A teenager whose tongue is the size of a tennis ball goes to sleep each night knowing there is a chance he may choke to death.Krzysztof Wegrzyn, who lives in Grojec in central Poland, was born with a condition called haemangioma.This means he has a benign tumour in the blood vessels of his tongue.Efforts to remove the growth were made when he was a child, but had to be called off because of massiv
An Egyptian woman is believed to be the fattest woman alive after her weight reached 500kg (79 stone). Iman Ahmad Abdulati, 36, from Alexandria in northern Egypt said she had not left home for 25 years because of her weight problem, which got worse and worse. She said that enquiries at local hospitals by her family had not bought a solution, but after her sister Chaymaa' Ahmad Abdulati went public
The financial services industry is already planning to move business overseas due to the uncertainty of the Brexit process, the head of the British Bankers' Association has warned.Anthony Browne blamed fears that European Union (EU) politicians will want to erect trade barriers in an attempt to weaken the City of London during the Brexit negotiations for the planned moves.Smaller banks could begin
A minibus taxi split apart in a crash on the N2 in Durban, SA, that left two dead and one injured, paramedics reported on Sunday.Describing the scene as "carnage", Rescue Care Paramedics operations director, Garrith Jamieson, said after a pick-up truck and minibus collided, "the minibus came to rest on top of the bakkie (pick-up)". The incident occurred on the N2 northbound near the NPC Cement Fac
At least 53 people have died after an overloaded train derailed in Cameroon.The crash also left at least 300 people injured, transport minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo'o said.State radio in the country is reporting that the horrific accident happened in Eseka, which is about two hours away from the capital Yaounde.Local media also reports that Eseka doesn't have an appropriate medical facility, and 
A 13-year-old Georgia student who was allegedly "thrown to the floor" by his teacher was scheduled to have his right leg amputated after undergoing four surgeries, his attorney said."As anyone can anticipate, there was certainly an emotional response," the boy's attorney, Renee Tucker, told the Ledger Enquirer.The student, Montravious Thomas, was in class at the Muscogee County School District's 
Ex-Premier League boss Harry Redknapp's wife Sandra was seriously injured when she was dragged along a road by his Range Rover.Her foot got trapped inside the car as Harry pulled away after dropping her at the shops.Witnesses to the Bournemouth accident told how she lay screaming with agony as she was dragged along the road by his car in the freak accident.Horrified onlookers said the ex-Premier 
Police have charged three men in the fatal shooting of Trinity Gay, the daughter of US track athlete Tyson Gay.Trinity Gay, 15, died after being shot in the neck during an exchange of gunfire between two parked vehicles at a restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky.Police do not believe Trinity was in either of the vehicles involved in the early Sunday morning shootout.Chazerae Taylor, 38, and his 19-yea
Three men have been accused of plotting to target immigrants with a huge terror attack.Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, 49, are accused of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in Garden City, Kansas.The men are members of a small group of white supremacists who calls themselves the Crusaders.Members espouse sovereign citizen, anti-government, ant
South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has blown the lid on the suspicious bank transactions of the Gupta family.In an explosive affidavit filed in court on Friday, Gordhan makes reference to a certain transaction valued at R1,3 billion and refers to various companies owned by the Guptas.The transactions he refers to are believed to amount to about R6 billion. EFF leader Julius Malema onc
The teenager daughter of American Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was shot and killed at a Kentucky restaurant early Sunday morning.Trinity Gay, herself a rising running star, died from a wound suffered after an apparent shootout, according to WKYT.Police said the 15-year-old track star took a bullet to the neck after people in two cars exchanged gunfire outside a Lexington restaurant called Cook Out.T
Four people have died and 14 have been injured after a balcony collapsed during a house warming in western France.They are believed to have fallen three storeys as a result of the collapse in the city of Angers.Authorities in the Maine-et-Loire region said the accident occurred late last night at a recently-constructed building. It is believed they were all students.A spokesman for the city's Univ
A baby born with an adult-sized tongue couldn't eat or breathe unaided after being born with an adult tongue.Paisley Morrison-Johnson, from Aberdeen in South Dakota, was born with Beckwith Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS), and so for the first week of her life, she needed breathing apparatus just to stay alive and without it, she could have choked to death.The disorder, which affects one in every 11,000 b
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