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  • Bride sues wedding venue after she slips on dance floor

    A newly-wed bride has sued one of the top marriage venues in the United Kingdom (UK) for £150,000 (approximately Rs 34,935,942) after she slipped on a spilt drink on a dancefloor and broke her elbow.

    As per reports, bride Cara Donovan — who is a teacher by profession — has sued the company after she slipped on the ‘highly slippery’ laminated plastic floor, lit by underfloor LED lights.

    Donovan alleged that she slipped on spilled drinks after the staff failed to stop guests from taking their drinks onto the floor. She added that the tables were positioned by the edge of the floor, allowing guests to dance and drink. Even after people spilled drinks on the floor, no one came to mop it up.

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    The incident happened in September 2018 but left the bride with a badly broken elbow. Despite three operations, the woman says she has been suffering from permanent arm pain.

    Since then, she hasn’t been able to get back to work as a special-needs teacher. Blaming the company for what happened to her, she has now sued Country House Weddings Ltd, which was once voted the Best UK Wedding Venue by magazine readers.

  • Japanese princess to marry commoner boyfriend despite dispute

    Japanese princess to marry commoner boyfriend despite dispute

     Japan’s Princess Mako will marry a commoner, her former classmate, this month after years of controversy as she will give up her royal status, BBC News reported.

    The couple is all set to tie the know on October 26.

    The couple initially planned their wedding in 2018, but this was put off, reportedly after Mako’s boyfriend, Mr Komuro’s family had run into financial difficulties.

    They are expected to move to the US after marriage where Mr Komuro works as a lawyer.

    This excessive media coverage around the princess — whose father is Crown Prince Fumihito — and Mr Komuro’s family over the years has caused the princess to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, the Imperial Household Agency said, according to news outlet Kyodo.

    Her aunt, Empress Masako, also suffered from a stress-related illness, due to intense pressure to produce a male heir. There is often a stigma around mental illnesses in Japan. The couple first met in 2012 when they were students at the International Christian University in Tokyo.

    They were engaged in 2017 and were set to marry the following year. But news of Mr Komuro’s mother’s financial problems started doing the rounds; she had reportedly taken a loan from her ex-fiancé and not paid him back.

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    The palace denied the delay was linked to this, though Crown Prince Fumihito said it was important for the money issues to be dealt with before they got together.

    Princess Mako will reportedly forego a traditional lump-sum payment of up to 150 million yen ($1.3m), which is normally gifted to a member of the royal family upon their departure from the household.

    She is also expected to skip the usual rites associated with a royal family wedding. If she skips both the payment and the rites, it will make her the first female member of the Japanese royal family to do so.

    Under Japanese law, female imperial family members forfeit their status upon marriage to a “commoner” although male members do not.

  • Son reunites with mother after 70 years

    An 80-year-old man in Bangladesh has been reunited with his nearly 100-year-old mother after about 70 years with the help of social media, AFP reported.

    As per details, Abdul Kuddus Munsi in his childhood was sent to live with his uncle but lost touch with his family after running away and being adopted by two sisters.

    “This is the happiest day of my life,” the 82-year-old said from Brahmanbaria, the eastern border district where he was born in 1939.

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    In April, a businessman shared a video of Kuddus on Facebook, requesting help finding his parents. Kuddus only remembered the name of his parents and his village from the first decade of his life.

    A distant relative in the village spotted the post and informed Kuddus that his mother, Mongola Nessa, thought to be in her late 90s, was still alive.
    So Kuddus — himself a father to three grown-up sons and five daughters — travelled about 350 kilometers (220 miles) from the western city of Rajshahi, to end the decades of estrangement.

  • Man strips naked to win bet, spreads horror among villagers

    Man strips naked to win bet, spreads horror among villagers

    A man in his 40s allegedly stripped naked and walked around in an Egyptian village to win a bet from a friend, Gulf News reported.


    The villagers tried to cover him up but the man refused to get covered, leading people to question his mentality and motives.


    “Children gathered around him as he walked naked across the village. People thought he had been caught doing something immoral and had not enough time to put on his clothes,” Mohammed told Egyptian newspaper Al Watan.


    “The scene was nauseating. He prevented anyone from covering him. He refused to put on any clothes,” added the witness.


    Later, he received 25,000 Egyptian pounds from a person who had earlier made a bet with him. “He then sat down while still naked in front of his house, counting the money,” Mohammed said.

    Read More: Wife steals frozen human bodies after fighting with husband


    “He is not a poor person,” Nabil Awwad, another local of the village, said. “The alleged offender owns a flock of sheep worth thousands of pounds,” he told Egyptian news portal Masrawy.


    “What struck our attention was that whenever we tried to cover him with clothes, he took them off, insisting to continue walking naked,” Awwad added.


    The act forced the village’s shocked women to stay indoors, the portal said.

  • Wife steals frozen human bodies after fighting with husband

    Wife steals frozen human bodies after fighting with husband

    A woman raided her ex-husband’s cryogenics lab and stole frozen dead bodies and brains of people who paid thousands of pounds with hopes of being brought back to life in the future.

    As per reports, the incident happened in Moscow, Russia. The 59-year-old, Valeria Udalova, and staff of her company stole the remains of dead bodies that were stored in her ex-husband Danila Medevdev’s lab. Some of the corpses were from Britain and the US.

    They took out the liquid nitrogen from giant flasks containing frozen bodies and took them along with some detached brains.

    The cops managed to capture the cargo of human remains preserved by “Frankenstein” technology offering humans the chance to “come back to life” in the future.

    “The police could not catch Valeria. She took someone’s brain from the storage and escaped. The brains of our neuro-patients were kept separately, in special metal medical boxes,” Medvedev told the media.

    Both Medvedev and Udalova claim to be the legitimate owners of the human remains.

    The police is investigating the claims of both parties while demanding them to guarantee the “integrity” of the frozen human remains and bodies of dozens of cats and dogs.

  • Police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC

    Police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC

    New Zealand police have arrested two men with a car full of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and over $100,000 in cash as they tried to cross the border into locked down Auckland amid the pandemic.

    As per reports, the men were detained after allegedly trying to flee from police near the Auckland border. When their car was searched, police said they found a large quantity of KFC, as well as the cash and a number of empty ounce bags.

    Auckland is in strict lockdown and restaurants are not allowed to open and citizens are not allowed to order takeaway food.

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    After the KFC arrest, a police spokesperson said “officers noticed a suspicious-looking vehicle travelling on a gravel road, and upon seeing the police car, the vehicle did a U-turn and sped off trying to evade police.

    “The vehicle was searched and police located the cash, alongside empty ounce bags and a large number of takeaways.”

    Close examination of the police evidence photos revealed at least three buckets of chicken, up to 10 tubs of coleslaw, and an a large quantity of fries.

  • Disney fans can now rent Winnie the Pooh house in the woods

    Disney’s Winnie the Pooh is turning 95 this year and to celebrate Pooh’s birthday, fans can now stay at a new Winnie the Pooh-themed house located in the Ashdown Forest in Sussex countryside.

    As per details, the rental house is exclusively designed by Disney-appointed Winnie the Pooh illustrator, Kim Raymond, who has been drawing the iconic bear for over 30 years.

    Photo via Hello Magazine

    Airbnb’s themed house costs £95 per night. Available for a limited time only, Kim will host just two separate stays on the 24th and 25th of September. Official booking dates will go live on September 20 (Monday).

    Perfectly capturing the magic of Pooh’s house, exposed tree branches wrap around the doorway that has been inscribed with ‘Mr. Sanders’ in gold letters, just like in the books. Kitchen cupboards are stocked with ‘hunny’ pots.

    Encouraging guests to embrace their natural surroundings and live more like Pooh, visitors will be taken on a guided tour through the hundred-acre woods. From playing Poohsticks on the iconic Poohsticks Bridge to enjoying locally sourced honey-inspired meals, this is truly a one-of-a-kind staycation. 

    The interior of the Bearbnb (photo via Henry Woide)
  • Newly-wed bride asks groom to bring water, runs away with cash, jewellery

    Newly-wed bride asks groom to bring water, runs away with cash, jewellery

    A bride robbed her husband while going to her in-laws’ in India’s Uttar Pradesh after she sent him to bring water for her.

    As per reports, the groom’s marriage was fixed through a mediator and the latter had mentioned a condition that made the groom’s family pay INR80,000 to the bride.

    The groom named Raju agreed to the condition and gave the money along with jewellery, gifts and clothes.

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    The newly-married couple went to a bus station to leave for home.

    The bride asked her husband to fetch her a glass of water at the bus station, as she was thirsty. After he returned, the bride was not there. She disappeared depriving him of money, gifts and clothes that were given to her, as they were also not there.

    Later, the husband reported the case to the police.

  • Mexican rapper gets ‘gold hair’ surgically implanted into scalp

    Mexican rapper Dan Sur has adopted a new look by getting the chain hooks surgically embedded into his scalp, the New York Post reported.

    The 23-year-old rapper “wanted to do something different”. He underwent the surgery back in April and since then he flaunts his ‘golden hair’ to his social media followers.

    “The truth is that I wanted to do something different because I see that everyone dyes their hair. I hope not everyone copies me now,” he said in one of his TikTok videos.

    “This is my hair. Golden hair. The first rapper to have gold hair implanted in human history,” he added.

    The rapper has also got a matching gold grill recently.

  • VIDEO: Dog interrupts cricket match

    VIDEO: Dog interrupts cricket match

    A dog interrupted the semi-final of the Women’s All-Ireland T20 between Bready Cricket Club and Civil Service North or Ireland Cricket Club in Magheramason.

    The video shows the dog running on the field with its black leash trailing behind it. When the wicket-keeper tried to hit the stumps and missed, the dog hurriedly snapped up the ball and began running away, as players tried to chase it down.

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    The dog finally stopped running after a player calmed it down and retrieved the ball so the match could resume.