Did you know that rugby - that game in which brawny young fellers run up and down with an oval-shaped ball - is responsible, or certainly partially responsible, for the death of Reeva Steenkamp? Turn ...

2024 was a year of triumphs and challenges for South Africans, with sports stars making history, shifts shaking up the political landscape and the nation mourning the loss of beloved figures.

A mass grave discovered last December in a suburb of Guadalajara with dozens of bags of dismembered body parts contained the remains of 24 people, Mexican authorities said Sunday. Six of them ...

The video-sharing app is in the process of being restored after ByteDance shut down the app on Saturday, January 18, following the U.S. ban. TikTok began flickering back to life on Sunday morning ...

Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters have spray-painted Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey to highlight rising global temperatures, the climate protest group has said. The slogan "1.5 is dead ...

A place as mythologized as Disneyland comes with a lot of rumors: that there are real human skeletons inside Pirates of the Caribbean, that Walt Disney’s head is cryogenically frozen, awaiting ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered dozens of Roman-era graves of men who were buried with "curse tablets," at least one of which was written in an extinct language. Excavations underneath an ...

The protesters entered the Abbey around 10am on Monday and sprayed “1.5 Is Dead” on Darwin’s grave - in reference to the news on Friday that the world has exceeded the “safe” 1.5C ...

A near-death experience (NDE) is the conscious, semi-conscious or recollected experience of someone who is approaching or has temporarily begun the process of dying—for example, during a cardiac ...

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"I've got my love to keep me warm," goes the old holiday song. For those of us less fortunate — those who have passed on to a chillier world — there are grave blankets. Perhaps they're a ...