BBC finds Facebook failed to remove child porn. Facebook reports BBC to authorities A BBC investigation has revealed that 80 per cent of child abuse images it reported to Facebook were not removed. Facebook responded to the allegations by requesting the BBC send examples of the material to it, then reporting the team to the […]
Girl recalls how baby elephant braved the 2004 tsunami and swirling current to save her Amber Owen from United Kingdom recollected her month-long winter holiday with her parents back in 2004 and how she was saved by an elephant when a tsunami hit the Phuket beach in Thailand. Owen was just 8 years old at
Indian father fills potholes after his son died on crumbling roads Dadarao Bilhore smoothes the road surface, rests his shovel, looks to the sky and prays for his son, one of thousands of Indians killed every year in accidents caused by potholes. Prakash Bilhore, a promising student, was just 16 when he died in July
Miracle on Dan Bus #4 It was a very hot day in July 1951. I was in Tel Aviv and too hot to walk. I boarded Dan bus #4 on the corner of Ben Yehuda and Gordon streets. The bus was very crowded and there was no available seat. I had to stand next to
Battle of Germantown The Battle of Germantown was a major engagement in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It was fought on October 4, 1777, at Germantown, Pennsylvania, between the British Army led by Sir William Howe, and the American Continental Army, with the 2nd Canadian Regiment, under George Washington. After defeating the
Navy SEAL’s Amazing Survival: ‘God, Get Me Home’ VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Navy SEAL Sr. Chief Mike Day had never been shot before, but that changed dramatically one night in April 2007. Al Qaeda terrorists shot Day more than two dozen times. “This body armor took more rounds than it was supposed to,” explained Day,
The Happiest Prisoners Prisoners look out from behind barbed wire at Sherbrooke, Que., in 1945. In the shadow of Mount Baldy, where lodgepole pine and trembling aspen compete for space in Alberta’s spectacular Kananaskis Country, all that remains of a Second World War prisoner of war camp are weedy building foundations, a rundown guard tower
Jonah Hill ‘hospitalised’ after snorting so much fake cocaine on Wolf of Wall Street The life of a movie star becomes increasingly unglamorous when you start looking more closely at what is required by each role. Directors and actors want performances to be as authentic as possible which often means going to extreme measures: putting
Russia reopens investigation into 60-year-old Dyatlov Pass mystery (CNN)Russian prosecutors have launched a new investigation into the mysterious case of nine students who died in bizarre circumstances after disappearing on a skiing trip 60 years ago. Countless articles, books and documentaries have sought to explain the fate of the group from the Ural Polytechnic Institute
What We Know About Ted Bundy’s Girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall And Where She Is Today Ted Bundy brutally murdered dozens of women across the country in the late 1970s. Around the time he began his killing spree, he started dating a young secretary named Elizabeth. But it wasn’t until years later that Elizabeth first realized her
