Tag: today
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Classic Routemaster buses paraded at special event in Finsbury Park to celebrate 60th Anniversary
Enthusiasts attend a gathering of Routemasters in Finsbury Park (Picture: Getty Images) Routemaster fans were treated to a parade of the iconic buses in north London this weekend. More than 150 of the vehicles were on show at the event in Finsbury Park, which celebrated the 60th anniversary of when they were first produced. The Routemasters […]
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Is this the manliest handshake ever?
Manliest handshake ever? (Picture: imgur) We defy any gent who claims he can pull off a more manly handshake. Watch these two meatheads enjoy a testosterone-fuelled tussle after a game of Aussie rules. Australian football requires each team member to don groin-grabbingly tight wear. The opponents appear to shake hands, before squaring up for a fight, but […]
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Teenager rescued at sea off Mevagissey in Cornwall after posting SOS on Facebook
The teenager’s boat capsized at sea off Mevagissey in Cornwall (Picture: File) A teenager was rescued at sea after posting an SOS on Facebook because his phone was too wet to make an emergency call. The 18-year-old man, who has not been named, alerted his friends and family after his Laser sailing craft capsized off […]
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Wang Shuhan, 5, gets to play with real life digger in extraordinary video from China
Many of us dreamed of operating a digger when we were younger but this five-year-old’s father actually let him. Wang Shuhan was filmed operating the heavy machinery in China and at one point even used the scoop to move sand. Unsurprisingly it wasn’t wasn’t the first time he had done it, with his construction worker […]
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Thief Tia Grisett ordered to stand outside Wal-Mart store she stole from in Florida with sign admitting her guilt
Tia Grisett, 21, stood outside the Wal-Mart she stole from with this sign (Picture: Bradford County Sheriff’s Office) A woman who stole from a supermarket was ordered to stand outside the premises with a sign admitting her crime. Tia Grisett was snapped holding a humiliating board in Wimauma, Florida, which said ‘I stole from a […]
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Woman complains about ‘noisy’ Metropolitan Police helicopter, gets abused off Twitter
Police were searching for a stab victim and possible gunmen (Picture: @MPSinthesky/Twitter) An impetuous Twitter user who complained about a Met Police helicopter unit keeping her awake at night received so much online abuse that she closed her account. After hearing the noise of a helicopter above her house in the early hours of the […]
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Crocodile wedding: South Mexican town mayor ‘marries’ reptile
The mayor of a small fishing town in the south of Mexico has ‘married’ a crocodile. Joel Vasquez Rojas, the mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, married the reptile – dressed in a white gown – at the city hall and then shared a dance in front of packed party of local residents. According to local […]
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‘Mississippi Baby’ who was ‘cured’ of HIV sees virus reemerge after two-year absence
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the immune system (Picture: SPL) A girl thought to have been cured of HIV has the virus once again. The four-year-old, born to an HIV-infected mother in 2010 and known publicly only as the ‘Mississippi Baby’, seemed to expel the virus from her system after an 18-month period of treatment was […]