Category: Viral

Everyone can breathe again. The suspected Ebola case that sent a shiver through a Glasgow hospital has come back negative. Health officials confirmed the sigh of relief on Tuesday after a patient was rushed into the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital under a cloud of worst-case scenarios. It was a close call. Had the results gone […]

Some people buy a ring. Others risk prison. On Wednesday afternoon, Instagram-famous daredevils Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov chose the latter, scaling the dizzying heights of the Empire State Building’s spire to stage a vertigo-inducing marriage proposal. They hung a banner. They took selfies. Then, the cops showed up. The Russian couple, notorious for dangling […]

They stumbled inside. While executing a routine search warrant on an unrelated matter in the impoverished, forgotten hills of Vinton County, Ohio, authorities discovered sixteen children living in a squalor so profound it defies basic human decency. The scene was grim. Human waste littered the floor, and the victims had spent the better part of […]

Roberto Serrano wanted to be kind. It backfired. Last spring, the Brown University economics professor watched his campus shatter. A mass shooting left two students dead. One was Ella Cook, a bright young woman who had just asked Serrano to be her academic advisor. Two others were fighting for their lives. The campus was a […]

You can’t make this up. A bunch of tiny, dehydrated frogs has managed to do what British weather rarely does: shut down a weekend run for two weeks straight. The Kirkharle Courtyard parkrun in Northumberland is officially on ice. Or rather, on boil. The event is young. It only launched last October. This would have […]

Forty minutes. That’s all the jury needed to nail Samuel Bateman. The self-proclaimed prophet, already rotting in federal prison on a 50-year stretch for child sex crimes, just added state child abuse convictions to his resume. This time, the charges stemmed from three young girls stuffed into a sweltering, windowless cargo trailer he was hauling […]

Imagine trying to hold back a sneeze forever. Or keeping your eyes wide open, staring into the sun, refusing to blink. That is the daily reality for nine-year-old Freya. She lives in County Durham. For two years, her own body has been a battleground of involuntary jolts and coughs. She only got a name for […]

Want some ink in Largo, Florida? Better leave your military ID at home. Actually, just don’t go at all if you’ve ever worn the uniform. Revival Tattoo Collective made its stance crystal clear in a social media post that set the internet on fire. They don’t want your business. They think you’re a war criminal. […]

It gets worse. Ashley Fisler, the 36-year-old former Washington Township middle school teacher already accused of sleeping with a student, now faces a much heavier book. A grand jury handed down a fresh 12-count indictment on Wednesday. The new charges include manufacturing child sexual abuse material. The Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office laid it all out. […]

Three months. That is all it took for Maria to realize the massage table was a battleground. The 38-year-old qualified therapist had seen enough. Now, she simply refuses to take on new male clients. The reason? Creepy behavior that left her feeling unsafe. She is not alone. Across Scotland, female therapists are dealing with a […]