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VIDEO: Lifeguards' boat gets loose, swerves around

Thar she goes! The boat motors itself around as lifeguards stand by helplessly.

Two lifeguards in Ballito, South Africa, took a motor boat out onto the water despite rough conditions and ended up getting knocked overboard — leaving the boat to swerve in the surf unattended.

Oops! British government places ad for prostitutes

The ad placed by the 'Horny Escorts' agency was accidentally uploaded onto the website for the Department of Works and Pensions, a British government ministry.

A British government website inadvertently advertised jobs for prostitutes. The ad, placed by the "Horny Escorts" agency, was accidentally uploaded onto the website for the Department of Works and Pen...

French baker fights robber with broom

The brave woman can be seen at right carrying the broom that would scare off the would-be robber.

A brave female French baker took on an armed robber who was pointing a gun in her face, using just a broom. The incident happened in a boulangerie in Paris. The gun-wielding robber broke into the...

France rules 'millionaire's tax' legal

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A "millionaire's tax" which imposes a top tax rate of 75% has been ruled legal in France. The tax was a pre-election pledge by socialist president Francois Hollande, who swore the rich would help pull...

Sick student gets death threats for backing resear...

Caterina Simonsen said she has received more than 500 abusive Facebook messages since posting her story, including some suggesting the world would be better off without her.

A seriously ill Italian student who cannot breathe unaided says she has received more than 30 online death threats after defending medical experiments on animals.

Snoopy-shaped island forms after Japanese volcanic...

Twitter users have taken notice of the striking resemblance.

Good grief, Charlie Brown! A volcanic eruption in Japan has caused an island to form that looks like Snoopy.

Schumacher condition ‘life-threatening’ after skii...

German former Formula One driver Michael Schumacher skiing in the northern Italian resort of Madonna di Campiglio in 2005. Schumacher, the retired seven-time Formula One champion, is in a coma after striking his head in a ski accident in the French Alps on Dec. 29.

Seven-times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher was fighting for his life on Monday after suffering severe head injuries in a skiing accident in the French Alps resort of Meribel, doctors sa...

Pope wins unexpected honor: Best Dressed Man 2013

Pope Francis - seen waving Dec. 22 at the Vatican — has a simple way of dressing that Esquire magazine says reflects his leadership style.

Is there anything the new Pope cannot do? Fresh from being named Time's Person of the Year, the pontiff has been awarded the title of Best Dressed Man 2013, by Esquire magazine. Pope Francis was prais...

Woman hunts missing teaspoon... discovers it insid...

An X-ray revealed that a British woman’s young dog had swallowed a spoon the dog found on the kitchen table.

A seven-month-old puppy was so excited when her owner made a cup of tea, the mutt ended up swallowing a SPOON.

SEE IT: Mexico road collapses near U.S. border

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A section of road in Mexico close to the U.S. border has collapsed following several small earthquakes and heavy rain. The scenic highway sunk as low as 300 feet, forcing the closure of the route, som...

Japan’s homeless recruited to clean up Fukushima n...

Shizuya Nishiyama, 57,a homeless man from Hokkaido, said he worked clearing rubble in the nuclear disaster zone, but left after a dispute over wages.

SENDAI, Japan - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.

Bus blast kills 14 in Russia in deadly blast just...

Members of the emergency services work at the site of a bomb blast on a trolleybus in Volgograd December 30, 2013. At least 10 people were killed when an explosion ripped through a trolleybus in the second deadly blast in the Russian city of Volgograd in two days, the Interfax news agency reported, citing law enforcement officials. 

A bomb blast ripped a trolleybus apart in Volgograd on Monday, killing 14 people in the second deadly attack in the southern city in two days and raising fears of further violence as Russia prepares t...

Death toll rises to 15 after suicide bomber hits R...

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At least 14 people were killed and scores were wounded Sunday by a female suicide bomber at a railway station in southern Russia, officials said, heightening concern about terrorism ahead of February'...

El Salvador begins evacuations near volcano

epa04003420 View of the volcano Chaparrastique or San Miguel, east of El Salvador, 29 December 2013. Large amount of ashes and a smoke column could be seen at the volcano due to its recent activity. EPA/CARLOS FIGUEROA

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Authorities in El Salvador evacuated an area around the Chaparrastique volcano after the peak shot a cloud of gas and ash about 3 miles into the air on Sunday. Civil Defens...

Fireworks by Grucci vows to break pyrotechnics wor...

On New Year’s Eve, the Grucci fireworks family of Long Island plans to blow away this grand show in Dubai — and all others that came before — in setting a Guinness record in the United Arab Emirates city.

The first family of fireworks plans to ring in the new year with the biggest bang in the history of pyrotechnics.

Man sought after jumping from cruise ship

Exported.;

The U.S. Coast Guard was searching Sunday for a Canadian passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean Cruises ship as it motored off a remote Puerto Rican island toward the U.S. territory’s mainland.

Antarctica researchers stuck after wind blows ice...

The Akademik Shokalski is stranded about 1,500 nautical miles from Tasmania, Australia.

Rescue workers are racing to the group of explorers whose ship is stuck in ice off the coast of Antarctica. The crew's ocean research vessel, Akademik Shokalskiy, is stranded in a desolate area about...

Antarctic's icy grip trapping ship shows cracks of...

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The ice that trapped a research ship in Antarctica appears to be cracking up, as a bulky icebreaking vessel chugs along to set the explorers free.

BBC Network hacked

A man enters BBC New Broadcasting House in London November 11, 2012. Britain's BBC could be doomed unless it makes radical changes, the head of its governing trust said on Sunday, after its director general quit to take the blame for the airing of false child sex abuse allegations against a former politician. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: MEDIA POLITICS) - RTR3A9X1

A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system...

Al Qaeda documents show a real company infrastruct...

United Nations peacekeepers from Burkina Faso search a house suspected to have been used by Islamists, in Timbuktu, Mali, during a patrol, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. According to soldiers, a neighborhood man had found a cartridge in the building and called in soldiers to check for further weapons or evidence linked to the Islamist occupation. Mali's presidential election is set to go ahead on Sunday despite massive logistical and technical lapses, including a voters' roll which inexplicably is missing the names of tens of thousands of registered voters.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Al Qaeda documents around the world include corporate workshop schedules, salary spreadsheets, philanthropy budgets, job applications, public relations advice and letters from the equivalent of a huma...

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