A 17-year-old Chinese girl was allegedly raped and murdered after helping a pregnant woman who faked an illness to lure her to her husband so he could have sex with a virgin. Intern nurse Hu Yixuan passed by the expectant mother who had pretended to collapse in the street in Jiamusi city in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. She accompanied the woman, named locally as Tan, to her home where she […]

This is the terrifying moment an enormous articulated tanker launched into the air at high speed across the path of a driver and exploded into a ball of flames. The incredible footage was caught by chance and posted online by Benny Wright, whose disbelief at the freak incident happening before his eyes is unmistakable. Travelling in a vehicle with another man, near Greensburg, Indiana, and by chance filming the road […]

Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of “Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden — From 9/11 to Abbottabad.” Bailey Cahall is a research associate at the New America Foundation. (CNN) — In an attack orchestrated by a Pakistani Taliban commander, around 250 prisoners, most of them militants, were freed this week at the central prison in Dera Ismail […]

Is it a donut? A horseshoe? A bowlegged cowboy? Sheraton’s latest China property is anything but conventional Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t accuse China’s architects of playing it safe or being boring. Last month, the world watched (with some skepticism) as China broke ground on the world’s tallest building — the construction team behind the projected 838-meter Sky City plans to whip it up in an unbelievable 10 […]

  China’s heatwave is no joke. It is making some people get into this pool:   NewsPoint featured the above video of “China’s Dead Sea” in Sichuan province, ostensibly so-called because it is a saltwater pool and not because it is so jampacked as to promote the end of life. But the heatwave is serious (triple-digit temperatures for more than a week) and has been blamed for more than 10 […]

Nine in 10 failed to recognise the sign for a faulty catalytic converter Just 12 of the symbols were common across all car models A Mercedes-Benz E Class has the most symbols with 41 compared to a Nissan Micra which has 21 Britain’s motorists are becoming a nation of ‘dashboard dunces’ baffled by the increasing array of warning lights in their cars, new research has revealed. More than nine in […]

A man swallowed by a shark has managed to force his arm through the creature’s gills and is desperately stabbing it. Presumably still alive inside the shark’s stomach, he is able to plunge the knife into the its head in a desperate fight for survival. In fact the photo has proved to be quite stomach-churning for all who see it for the first time when they walk into the Metung […]

•Daniel Pelka, four, died after sustaining massive blow to the head •Mother Magdalena Luczak and partner Mariusz Krezolek had denied murder •Daniel was forced to scavenge food from school bins in the final weeks of his life because he was so hungry •He was ‘imprisoned’ in a tiny box room and forced to sleep on an old mattress in a room which stank or urine A mother and stepfather who […]

Protests are being held in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a day after the announcement that it will be split to form a new Telangana state. Anti-Telangana protesters have ransacked the ruling Congress party office in Anantapur district and thrown stones at the police. In the southern and coastal region of the state, businesses and schools are shut and transport disrupted. The state has seen protests for and […]

Almost no one in America has heard of the Alaskan village of Kivalina. It clings to a narrow spit of sand on the edge of the Bering Sea, far too small to feature on maps of Alaska, never mind the United States. Which is perhaps just as well, because within a decade Kivalina is likely to be under water. Gone, forever. Remembered – if at all – as the birthplace […]