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  • Locals rush to dig gold after discovering mountain ‘filled with gold’

    Locals rush to dig gold after discovering mountain ‘filled with gold’

    Villagers ran to dig gold from a mountain ‘filled with gold’ discovered in Congo’s South Kivu province, forcing authorities to ban mining in the area.  

    According to reports, the discovery of gold-rich ore in Luhihi brought masses of diggers to the site.

    A video of the event went viral on social media.

    “A video from the Republic of the Congo documents the biggest surprise for some villagers in this country, as an entire mountain filled with gold was discovered,” read the caption. “They dug the soil inside the gold deposits and take them to their homes in order to wash the dirt and extract the gold.”

    The video shows locals using shovels and other tools to dig the ground to extract the gold from the soil. Some were even seen using their bare hands.

    Another video shared on social media showed locals washing the dirt off the precious metal and collecting them in metal containers.

    What would you do if you found a mountain of gold? Let us know in the comments below.

  • Canadian man celebrates COVID-19 vaccination with bhangra

    Canadian man celebrates COVID-19 vaccination with bhangra

    Canadian dancer Gurdeep Pandher celebrated his COVID-19 vaccine jab by dancing on a frozen lake.

    Sharing a video of himself dancing, Gurdeep told his followers that he received his COVID vaccine on March 2 and headed straight to the frozen lake in Yukon, Canada and did the bhangra to spread positivity and joy.

    A 55-second video clip shows Pandher performing upbeat bhangra steps on the frozen lake as he celebrated his vaccination.

    “Yesterday evening I received my Covid-19 vaccine. After that, I went to a frozen lake to dance bhangra on it for joy, hope and positivity, which I’m forwarding across Canada and beyond for everyone’s health and wellbeing,” wrote Gurdeep in the caption.

    Pandher’s video has gone viral on social media with over one million views on Twitter with users lauding the dancer for spreading smiles amid the pandemic.

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  • Woman orders Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max, gets apple-flavoured yogurt instead

    Woman orders Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max, gets apple-flavoured yogurt instead

    A woman in China was surprised after she received apple-flavoured yogurt instead of an iPhone 12 Pro Max she had paid for online.

    According to details, the incident happened in China’s Anhui Province as the woman took to Chinese social media app Weibo to share her experience.

    In the video, the woman claims she paid 10,099 yuan for the iPhone 12 Pro Max on Apple’s official website on February 16.

    A box arrived two days later but what she got in that box was not an iPhone but apple-flavoured yogurt.

    The woman said she didn’t directly receive the package from the courier, it was left in a parcel locker inside her residential community.

    As per reports, Express Mail Service has appointed a special team to investigate the matter. Apple has also stated that they are looking into the matter.

    The local police have also been involved in the inquiry and have doubts that it might be a theft case.

  • Teenager kidnaps self to skip work

    Teenager kidnaps self to skip work


    A 19-year-old man in the United States tried to skip work by faking his own kidnapping.

    The boy Brandon Soules faked his kidnapping in order to skip work but his stunt did not last long as the police found out the truth and arrested him for false reporting.

    According to details, on February 10,  local police found Soules with his hands tied and mouth stuffed with a cloth. After being ‘saved’ by the police, the teenager claimed two men tied him and hit him till he fell unconscious. He further said that the two men drove him in a car and released him in the area where the police found him.

    The police found out that the entire episode was fake and the youth made up the whole story himself. During the investigations, the teen confessed to his actions. Soules accepted that he made up the story because he was trying to get out of work.

    Brandon’s plan to escape work has now landed him in jail and seems like he will be spending considerable time away from work due to the charges of false reporting against him.

  • Indian soldiers join ‘Pawri Horai Hai’ trend

    Indian soldiers join ‘Pawri Horai Hai’ trend

    After Bollywood celebrities, Indian soldiers have also joined the ‘Pawri Horai Hai’ trend. A video circulating on Twitter shows an Indian soldier saying, “Yeh hum hain, yeh hamari gun hai aur hum patrolling kar rahe hain” [this is us, this is our gun and we’re patrolling].

    The trend started after an influencer, Dananeer Mobeen, shared a video clip partying with her friends in front of a car. In the video, she was heard saying: “Yeh hamari car hai, yeh hum hain, aur yeh hamari pawri ho rai hai” (This is our car, this is us, and this is our party).

    Also Read: Mahira Khan, Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor join ‘Pawri Ho Rai Hai’ bandwagon

    Soon after the video went viral, ‘Pawri Ho Rai Hai’ became a major meme trend in Pakistan and also across the border. Many celebrities from Pakistan and India recreated the ‘Pawri Horai Hai’ meme.

    The original video has crossed six million views on Instagram and Dananeer’s followers have also reached one million on Instagram.

  • Man pushes pregnant wife off cliff for insurance money

    Man pushes pregnant wife off cliff for insurance money

    Turkish police have arrested a man who pushed his pregnant wife off a cliff for insurance money two years ago.

    As per reports,  Hakan Aysal tried to claim his wife’s life insurance money. He took out loans in her name. The couple was on a holiday in Butterfly Valley in Mugla, Turkey when Aysal pushed his wife off a 1,000-foot cliff. The 40-year-old was subsequently arrested for the murder of his wife Semra Aysal and their unborn child. 

    According to prosecutors, Semra, 32, was seven months pregnant at the time of the incident, in 2018. Semra, along with the unborn child, died at the moment after the fall. 

    In the indictment prepared for the crime of “deliberate murder” against the husband, it stated he planned the ordeal in order to get the guarantee of £40,865 from insurance. The couple reportedly stayed on top of the cliff for three hours so that the husband could make sure no one was around.

    Aysal reportedly made the insurance claim shortly after his wife’s death, “but it was declined when news of the investigation was unveiled.”

    In a video interview, the court heard from the victim’s brother, Naim Yolcu, who said: “When we went to the Forensic Medicine Institute to get the body, Hakan was sitting in the car.

    “My family and I were destroyed, but Hakan did not even appear sad.”

    In a statement carried by The Sun, Aysal denied killing his wife, saying: “After taking a photo, my wife put the phone in her bag. Later she asked me to give her the phone. I got up and then heard my wife scream behind me when I walked a few steps away to get the phone from her bag. When I turned back, she was not there. I did not push my wife.” 

  • VIDEO: Woman escapes getting crushed by moving train

    VIDEO: Woman escapes getting crushed by moving train

    A woman in India has escaped getting run over by a train while lying straight on the track as it passed from above her.

    As per the details, the incident took place in Haryana and was captured on camera.

    The goods train had stopped awaiting signal when the woman tried to cross over to the other side. She was trapped when the train suddenly began to move. The woman then laid still till all the bogies passed over her. A few people around her asked her to remain still.

    After the train passed, she was helped by the people to stand on her feet and was then seen walking away.

  • NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars, China trails behind

    NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars, China trails behind

    NASA successfully landed its fifth robotic rover, Perseverance, on the surface of Mars on Thursday after its six-month journey from Earth.

    “Touchdown confirmed. Perseverance is safely on the surface of Mars,” said Swati Mohan, an engineer on the Perseverance team.

    The rover is the most technologically advanced robot NASA has ever sent to Mars. The agency’s goal is to use it to explore the surface in nearly two years.

    NASA spent about $2.4 billion to build and launch the Perseverance mission, with another $300 million in costs expected for landing and operating the rover on the Mars surface.

    Perseverance also has a small helicopter named Ingenuity that NASA would use to try the first flight on another planet.

    The rover’s weight is about 1one ton. It is 10 feet long, nine feet wide and seven feet tall. The camera is fixed in a robotic arm that reaches about seven feet. It also has a chemical analyser and a rock drill.

    Perseverance traveled 293 million miles to reach Mars over the course of more than six months after it was launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on July 30.

    Meanwhile, China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft has also entered into the orbit and might land on the surface later this year.

  • Dubai Princess Sheikha Latifa releases video from ‘villa jail’

    Dubai Princess Sheikha Latifa releases video from ‘villa jail’

    The BBC’s investigative news programme Panorama on Tuesday published a video it said was of Sheikha Latifa, one of the ruler of Dubai’s daughters, saying that she was being held against her will in a barricaded villa.

    According to a report of Reuters, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum drew international attention in 2018 when a human rights group released a video made by her in which she described an attempt to escape Dubai.

    Last March, a London High Court judge said he accepted as proved a series of allegations made by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s former wife, Princess Haya, in a legal battle, including that the sheikh ordered the abduction of Latifa. The sheikh’s lawyers rejected the allegations.

    “I am a hostage and this villa has been converted into a jail,” Latifa, 35, said in the video published by the BBC as part of a Panorama programme airing on Tuesday.

    “All the windows are barred shut, I can’t open any window.” She said she was making the video in the bathroom of the villa, the only room she could lock herself into.

    Reuters could not independently verify when or where the video was recorded.The Free Latifa campaign, which has lobbied for her release, said it had managed to smuggle a phone to Latifa.

    David Haigh, one of the campaign’s co-founders and her lawyer, called for Latifa’s immediate release and an end to “a horrendous period of parental and human rights abuse that has significantly damaged the reputation of the UAE.”

    The Dubai government’s media office referred questions about the video to Sheikh Mohammed’s law firm, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    David Pannick, a lawyer in London representing Sheikh Mohammed in the legal battle with Princess Haya, said: “As one of the lawyers in current legal proceedings, I cannot comment.”

    Appearing alert and speaking calmly, Latifa said in the video that there were police officers stationed outside and inside the villa. “I just want to be free,” she added.

    In December 2018, the UAE foreign ministry said Latifa was at home and living with her family, after rights groups called on authorities in the Gulf Arab state to disclose her whereabouts and condition.

    Later, BBC News shared a detailed report on the matter, check out the video below:

  • Cow barges into hospital, attacks visitors

    Cow barges into hospital, attacks visitors

    An escaped cow attacked people in a hospital’s waiting room in Colombia resulting in a panic.

    The incident took place at the Hospital, San Rafael, in the northwestern Colombian department of Antioquia on Saturday.

    CCTV footage shows visitors running to a corner for safety after being attacked by the cow.

    A woman got hurt after being pinned to the wall by the cow.

    Two men came in and pulled the animal towards the exit but could not get it out of the hospital. The cow again attacked the woman in the corner. 

    One of the men ran in and distracted the cow and the animal finally left the hospital.

    Local newspaper Vanguardia wrote nobody was seriously injured in the incident. The wounded woman was treated for minor injuries and pain while the rest of the patients did not need any treatment.

    The cow also damaged two motorcycles at the hospital’s entrance and some chairs in the waiting room.

    Later, the cow’s owner went to the hospital to apologize for the damage and asked about the woman’s health. There have been no reports on the police initiating an investigation.