Police in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new, state media reported. Footage by state-owned Vietnam Television (VTV) this week showed dozens of large bags containing the used contraceptives scattered across the floor of a warehouse in the southern province of Binh Duong. Police said the […]

A man has been arrested in northern India after slashing his pregnant wife’s stomach with a sickle, leaving her critically ill and causing the death of their unborn baby boy, police and her relatives said. The woman was in intensive care in a hospital in the capital, New Delhi, said police in Budaun district in […]

Two friends have been arrested and charged to court for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 15-year-old girl (name withheld) in Agege area of Lagos.

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi The Nigeria Police, Bauchi State Command said it has arrested a grandfather, Bawada Audu of Rimin Zayam, Toro local government area of the state who allegedly buried his own grandson alive. According to the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ahmed Wakil, Audu had seized the newborn baby boy from his […]

The ‘keen drinker’ reportedly died after downing five bottles of unlicensed beer Kachashu, which is even used as hand sanitiser by locals. The contest offered a prize of £20.50 An 11-year-old boy died after he downed bottles of beer during an under-14s drinking contest in Malawi. The child, described as a “keen drinker”, reportedly drank […]

Clive Bunden and his wife Brenda, from Warrington, Cheshire, have now been together for more than three decades, despite the fact that he was married to her daughter Irene in 1977 The Mirror UK reports that they have been together for more than three decades, married 13 years and are still blissfully happy, despite the […]

Bus passengers nearly had a hissy fit after spotting a man wearing a huge snake instead of a face mask while riding a bus in Salford yesterday. Daily Mail UK reports that the man used the large reptile, which hung around his neck, as a face covering while boarding the Swinton to Manchester service at […]

An 11-year-old boy, identified as Humphreys Chipeta, has died after drinking five bottles of Kachasu at a drinking contest in Mzimba. The boy who, according to his peers, was an avid drunkard had reached finals of the contest when he collapsed. The beer downing competition which was pegged at MK20,000 had been raised amongst all […]

Police in Slovenia have accused a woman of cutting off her hand with a circular saw – with the help of her family – to make a fraudulent insurance claim. The 21-year-old and a relative have been detained and face up to eight years in prison if convicted. The suspects took out injury insurance, police […]

The laws on prostitution in Sweden make it illegal to buy sex, but not to sell the use of one’s own body for such services. Procuring and operating a brothel remain illegal. The criminalisation of the purchase of sex, but not the selling of one’s own body for sex, was unique when first enacted in […]