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A woman’s decomposing body was found inside a chimney three days after her death. The authorities have revealed that the woman, who is a doctor, might have died due to suffocation while stuck inside the chimney. She was reportedly trying to get into her boyfriend’s house through the chimney to confront him. The coroner’s office [...]

Police have reportedly found the young woman in a red shirt who was filmed throwing puppies into a river.
Local police in Travnik, on the eastern edge of Bosnia near the Croatian border, identified the girl after her parents reportedly turned her in, according to news report leaked to local online news outlet Index.hr.
The girl – [...]

An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent execution on charges of homosexuality, even though he has no legal representation. Ebrahim Hamidi, who is not gay, was sentenced to death for lavat, or sodomy, on the basis of “judge’s knowledge”, a legal loophole that allows for subjective judicial rulings where there is no conclusive evidence.
Hamidi had been [...]

A groom accidentally killed three relatives at his wedding in Turkey on Sunday when he fired into the air with an assault rifle in celebration, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Eight other people were wounded at the incident at the village of Akcagoze in the southeastern province of Gaziantep.
The groom unleashed a volley of rapid aerial [...]

One single entrance through a tunnel lends itself to disaster at German festival attended by more than 1 million.

Shaquawna Meaders had spent “a nice night” at her friend’s apartment as the friend’s skinny 14-year-old son made them laugh and his young siblings prepared for a trip to Coney Island.
Then on Thursday, Meaders learned that her friend had died, the young girls’ throats had been slit and police had begun to suspect the boy [...]

Famous Shoe Tree Burns Down

Posted: 17th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Sad News
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U.S. Forest Service officials in northern Idaho say the rubber-soled decorations that made the “shoe tree” a beloved Priest River landmark also helped fuel its demise.
Tourists and locals since the 1940s have dressed the tree with hundreds of pairs of shoes, nailing sneakers to its trunk and hanging work boots from its branches.
Firefighters found the [...]

George Steinbrenner, who rebuilt the New York Yankees into a sports empire with a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across America, died Tuesday. He had just celebrated his 80th birthday July 4.

The corporate media have been tracking the disaster with front-page articles and nightly news headlines every day (if it bleeds, or spills, it leads!), but the under-reported aspects to this nightmarish tale paint the most chilling picture of the actors and actions behind the catastrophe. In no particular order, here are [...]

A Dallas woman on Thursday doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire because of her failed marriage, police said.
The incident happened sometime before 4 p.m. at a residence in the 6300 block of Denham Street in the southeast section of the city.
Investigators said 22-year-old Josephine Garcia Diaz had argued with her 23-year-old husband [...]

Boy hanged in Helmand province after being put on trial by militants
More than 40 killed and 77 injured after bomb rips through wedding

Taliban militants have executed a seven-year-old boy they accused of being a spy, it emerged today.

The child was abducted from his home and taken to a neighbouring village where [...]