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Watch: Voters cast their ballot in an unusual polling place in San Francisco

Watch : Voters cast their ballot in an unusual polling place in San Francisco

07/11/2018

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Votes are cast in darkness after power outage in Tennessee

Lanterns glowed inside a polling station in Knoxville on Election Day on Tuesday (November 6), one of nine voting locations in Tennessee where ballots were cast in darkness after early morning storms knocked out power.

07/11/2018

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Wooden boat set alight in Taiwan to ward off bad luck, disease

More than 90 volunteers from the seaside township of Donggang helped to build the intricately-decorated boat over the course of three months.

04/11/2018

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Sydney divers carve Halloween pumpkins underwater

The ultimate Halloween pumpkin carving competition was held at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium on Tuesday, October 30.

30/10/2018

United Kingdom

Teen brings books to class in a microwave after school bans rucksacks

When a UK boy's school banned large rucksacks, he responded by bringing his books to school in a microwave.

24/10/2018

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Watch: Giant spider web envelops coastline of Greek lake

Spiders have been keeping busy at Lake Vistonida in north-eastern Greece. Over the last few days large webs, spreading for hundreds of meters across the lake's coastline, have blanketed the entire landscape. The trees and shrubs have been completely wrapped in spooky grey webs.

21/10/2018

Italy

Milan restaurant gives away meals to popular Instagram users

Instagram users with 1,000 followers or more get one free dish at the This Is Not a Sushi Bar restaurant, while those with more than 100,000 can eat for free.

19/10/2018

Denmark

Gruesome discovery of headless alpaca sparks mystery in Denmark

Police are struggling to explain the disturbing and grisly find.

17/10/2018

United Kingdom

Watch: Competitors have smashing time at World Conker Championships

Competitors braved blustery weather to battle it out on Sunday at the annual World Conker Championships in Northamptonshire, England.

15/10/2018

China

Watch: Tourists test their nerve on glass slide in China’s Shangluo

Visitors in Shangluo, a city in northwestern China, are testing their nerve on a glass slide and glass-bottom bridge.

15/10/2018

United Kingdom

Meet the Wind-sors: Breezy weather bombards guests at royal wedding

Princess Eugenie’s royal nupitals with her partner of eight years, Jack Brooksbank, unlikely attracted as many spectators and TV viewers as another royal wedding this year, but it was still a spectacle.

12/10/2018

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Police subdue man with machete in New Orleans

Police have used a taser to subdue a man who brandished a machete in a park across from New Orleans City Hall.

03/10/2018

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Animal lovers have their pets blessed on Saint Francis of Assisi Day

Dozens of pets got a special blessing at Lima's Saint Francis Monastery on Sunday during a special mass for four-legged friends and other pets.

01/10/2018

Russia

Woman strikes Lindsay Lohan live on Instagram during ‘attempted kidnapping’

Lindsay Lohan has filmed herself behind knocked to the ground after she upset a homeless woman while persuading her and her children to go with her to a hotel.

29/09/2018

USA

Owner bids for ice-skating dog to become hockey mascot

Benny, a Labrador retriever, was once living in a kill shelter, waiting to be put down. But when Cheryl Del Sangro saw a picture of the puppy, she knew she had to take him home.

29/09/2018

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Few sales after hundreds queue for new iPhones in Moscow

Hundreds of Russians braved the cold and rain to queue for days outside a Moscow phone store ahead of the release of the new Apple iPhones on Friday, but when the doors opened none stepped in to buy.

28/09/2018

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New Zealand seal slaps canoeist with octopus

An incredible moment was caught on camera thanks to a canoer's GoPro camera in Kaikoura, New Zealand when a seal slapped a canoer with an octopus on Saturday (September 22).

27/09/2018

New Zealand

Watch: Seal slaps kayaker's face with octopus in New Zealand

In the footage, the seal can be seen launching itself out of the water wielding an octopus in its mouth and striking the unsuspecting kayaker across the face.

27/09/2018

World News

Look back: Golden Globe Race 1968

Suicides, capsizes, and a man who went round the world again — the extraordinary Golden Globe race of 1968.

24/09/2018

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400 scaly creatures under one roof: meet France's reptile man

For most people, sharing a living room with just one two-metre-long alligator is the stuff of nightmares; Philippe Gillet has two.

20/09/2018