Two Moscow Region residents have been hospitalized, twelve of their relatives are on ambulant treatment after coming into contacting with a rabid moose, the Life News tabloid website wrote on Monday. Forester Sergei Fioktistov, 50, and game specialists Alexander Mikhnuk found a moose in distress near a road in Odintsovo district, the news portal [...More...]
A massive fire at a prison in central Honduras has killed more than 350 inmates, and the toll is expected to rise, officials say. Soldiers, police and anxious relatives surrounded the prison in Comayagua, about 75km north of the capital, Tegucigalpa, on Wednesday morning. Television images showed weeping relatives pressed against a chain link [...More...]
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Alabama has been hit with the first U.S. outbreak of a foreign form of the virus that causes the childhood illness called hand, foot and mouth disease this winter, according to state health officials. That's causing more and tougher cases of the disease, including infections in adults and some hospitalizations, said Mary McIntyre, an [...More...]
Every now and then we need a break from all the crap that is going on in this world. Enjoy these delightful pictures of dogs underwater. We always wondered if dogs kept their eyes opened underwater. Now we know.
If there was a 'Just So' story for how the zebra got its stripes, I'm sure that Rudyard Kipling would have come up with an amusing and entertaining camouflage explanation. But would he have come up with the explanation that Gabor Horvath, Susanne Akesson and colleagues from Hungary and Sweden have: that zebra's stripes [...More...]
Health experts in Germany are baffled by a small village where cancer has hit almost every household. Wewelsfleth, which has a population of 1,500, has been labelled the ‘village of the damned’ as new cancer cases are 50 per cent above average. Researchers who investigated the phenomenon, which includes breast, lung, oesophageal, womb and [...More...]
The Swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix, is the leading drug responsible for the largest number of suspected adverse reactions. A whopping 779 suspected adverse reactions were linked to the vaccine between 2010 and 2011. Most of reported symptoms were relatively mild, such as localized swelling, gastrointestinal problems and flu-like symptoms. Health official have identified [...More...]
A 32-year-old model who held the record for the world's largest implants has walked away from a car crash after her breasts acted as an airbag. Sheyla Hershey, who has 38KKK breasts, was driving home near Houston, Texas, after a Super Bowl party on Sunday when she crashed into a tree. The woman was [...More...]
The Brazilian government has requested an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police road blocks, speed traps and drunk-driving checkpoints. Free-speech groups say it appears to be the first use of Twitter's controversial new censorship policy. The move has sparked alarm among privacy groups, who fear governments will use the same [...More...]
South Korea is closely monitoring North Korean artillery troop movements in the North's west coast. Frequent shelling sounds across the Northen Limit Line were presumed to be coming from the North`s long-range guns and rocket launchers deployed in inland areas near the South`s northwestern frontline islands. "The North Korean military seems to be briskly [...More...]
More than fifty pink flamingos have been found dead in southern France, victims of freezing weather conditions that has gripped Europe over the past weeks Firemen who combed waters in Gruissan, in the Aude region, said the birds succumbed to the cold after being trapped in the frozen water and left unable to fly [...More...]
**Weekio has not yet verified this situation.** Chinese and Korean media sites are alight with comments regarding this developing story, and Russian and American news outlets are beginning to report the possibility that a coup in North Korea may indeed be underway. Chinese journalist Joe Xu reported the unusual activity outside of the NK [...More...]
More than 260 dead dolphins wash ashore in Peru. (Video)
Nine people have tested positive for 'Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), known as Monkey disease in Theerthahlli taluk in the past 15 days a top district official said in India. Kyasanur Forest Disease is a tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever endemic to South Asia. The disease is caused by a virus belonging to the family flaviviridae, [...More...]
Questions still surround the mysterious Tourette’s like symptoms affecting 19 teens in Le Roy. Experts are now questioning if a 40-year old chemical spill has contaminated the local water supply. Around 30,000 gallons of trichloroethylene (TCE), an industrial solvent that's hazardous in high doses and can affect the nervous system, were dumped into the [...More...]
A combination of growing opposition against Russian Prime Miniter Vladimire Putin, claims of fraud and limited freedom of press has spurred artistic dissidence in the strees and online as Russia's March 4th presidential election approaches. Russia’s creative community has defined election protests with a series of powerful images, impromptu street performances, staged toy rallies [...More...]
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This week more than 200 dolphins were found dead along a 106-kilometer stretch at the beaches of Lambayeque. Authorities have not yet been able to determine the cause of the deaths. According to El Comercio, Edward Barriga, head of Peru’s Ocean Institute (Imarpe) in Lambayeque, ordered samples be sent to Lima, for further analysis. [...More...]
Mexican political party officials are scrambling to do damage control and apologizing to 650 plus people who suffered from food poisoning after attending a campaign rally in southern Mexico. The leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Guerrero state blames the candidate who held the event. Party leader Victor Valencia saying it is not the [...More...]
A leopard dragged away and devoured a 14-year-old girl in western Nepal in what is thought to be the fifth deadly attack by the same animal in just two months, police said on Thursday. The youngster was cutting grass in the forest near her home in Baitadi district, on the border with India, when [...More...]
Yesterday, Weekio.com reported on an up and coming case from PETA claiming that SeaWorld whales are illegal slaves. Yesterday, February 8th, a federal judge said 'no', stopping the historic case against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller writes in his ruling that "the only reasonable interpretation of [...More...]
A California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans. The issue arises from a lawsuit filed by rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a San Diego court on behalf of five [...More...]
An accident at a power station in Russia lights up the sky above a busy highway and knocks out electricity in south St Petersburg. A video recorded on the dashboard camera of a car captured the moment an apocalyptic flash of light filled the Moscow sky. Cars are seen hitting the brakes on Vitebsk Avenue [...More...]