Captured girls ‘sold as $12 brides’

HUNDREDS of school girls were abducted from a Nigerian school and have been missing in the jungle for weeks. Now their fate as “medieval slaves” has been revealed.

















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Free rides for everyone, as authorities rage

THE war is heating up between regulators and ride-sharing companies like Uber. As government bodies say they “just want to talk”, Uber is handing out free rides.



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Woman killed by bomb under seat

TWIN bombs planted on a train inside seats have killed a young woman and wounded nine others in India’s city of Chennai.

















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Will these cock-ups ever go away?

THESE pranks sure have lasted the test of time. These schools have been haunted by graffiti you can see from space for a ridiculously long time.



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Shirtless man asks reporter out on-air

WILDFIRES may have been raging all around him but that didn’t stop this guy from hitting on an unsuspecting TV reporter.





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Crackhead mayor filmed getting wasted, again

TORONTO Mayor Rob Ford says he’s taking a break and going to rehab after new video emerged of him smoking what appears to be crack in his sister’s basement.





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Man’s cookie misfortune

A WORKER has died in an accident after he got stuck inside a fortune cookie maker at a factory in the United States.





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Space rocket found floating in river

THE one that didn’t get away. A 73-year-old fisherman has bagged the catch of his life after hooking part of a space rocket.



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A little piece of Holden to stay in Australia

HOLDEN this morning has announced its future plans for Australia, including new models and confirming 2900 jobs will stay until 2017.



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‘Are we becoming a Titanic?’

VIDEOS have emerged showing passengers trapped on a sinking ferry in South Korea trying to break windows and a student asking, “Are we becoming a Titanic?”.

















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Man in custody over tourist’s killing

ARGENTINIAN police have detained a man in connection with the murder of Australian-born Nicholas Heyward in a botched robbery in Mendoza.





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Celebrities boycotting hotel chain

THIS is the Hotel Bel-Air. It’s one of the most exclusive and luxurious places you can stay in Los Angeles. But celebrities are boycotting it. Why?





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Teen hanged from tree over girlfriend

AN INDIAN teenager was strangled and hanged from a tree by a mob of men for having a relationship with a girl from a higher social caste.





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New online illegal drugstore is booming

Six months after the FBI shut down the notorious black market website known as “the eBay for drugs,” a new version is offering even more illegal narcotics than its predecessor.



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How tech’s biggest companies splash their cash

SILICON Valley companies have been dropping billions of dollars on investments. Here’s a comparison of what the biggest players cracked open their piggy banks for.



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Three dead in ‘violent terror attack’

THERE is more blood and terror on the streets of China this morning after a ‘terrorist’ bomb and knife attack hit travellers at a train station.





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Gerry Adams arrested over murder

IRISH republican and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been arrested and questioned by police over the murder of a woman in Belfast in 1972.





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Train derails, bursts into flames

AUTHORITIES are evacuating the area after an oil tanker train derailed and then burst into flames in downtown Lynchburg, Virginia.





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Teen hung from tree over girlfriend

AN INDIAN teenager was strangled and hung from a tree by a mob of men for having a relationship with a girl from a higher social caste.





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Uni student reveals life as gigolo

A COLUMBIA University student has stepped forward to reveal his life as a male gigolo, offering rich women “the boyfriend experience”.





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Treatable diseases may become killers

THE spread of deadly superbugs that resist antibiotics is no longer a prediction but is happening across the world.

















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