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Human Barbie gets daughter Poppy, 7, liposuction voucher for Christmas

January 4, 2012

Appropriate? Sarah Burge has given her daughter a £7,000 liposuction voucher for Christmas

Mummy, just what I always wanted! Girl, 7, gets £7,000 liposuction voucher for Christmas from ‘Human Barbie’ mum By SADIE WHITELOCKS A seven-year-old who received a voucher for a boob job on her last birthday has received yet another inappropriate gift from her surgery-obsessed mother: A £7,000 voucher for liposuction. Little Poppy Burge received the...
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Gameshow hosts eat each other’s flesh on TV

December 20, 2011

The host looks at his friend as he samples his flesh

Two Dutch television hosts appear to have eaten a piece of each other’s flesh before a live studio audience. Proefkonijnen, translated as Test Rabbits, presenters Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno were filmed having their flesh surgically removed and prepared by a top chef so they could sample the meat on their show, which is based...
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Woman used ring to escape from grave

December 8, 2011

The cardboard box from which Michelina Lewandowska escaped after allegedly being buried alive. Photograph: West Yorkshire Police/PA

A woman allegedly buried alive by her boyfriend in Britain dug herself out from the shallow grave by using her engagement ring, a court has heard. Polish national Michelina Lewandowska, 27, claims her partner Marcin Kasprzak, 25, grabbed her as she came out of her bathroom on May 28 and pinned her to the...
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Melbourne hospital aborts wrong twin

November 24, 2011

A Victorian woman 32 weeks pregnant with twin boys has lost both babies after a botched attempt to abort the sick twin terminated the wrong baby. The Herald-Sun reports the woman, who had already named the twin boys, was told by doctors that one of the babies had a congenital heart defect that would...
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Minhaj Gedi Farah becomes face of hope from the famine

November 11, 2011

Then-seven-month old Minhaj Gedi Farah weighed 3.1kg when he first arrived in the Dadaab refuge camp in Kenya. Picture: AP WHEN the world first bothered to notice the famine sweeping east Africa, one child seemed to appear in media outlets everywhere. HE’S truly one of the lucky ones. Minhaj Gedi Farah was seven months...
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Russian ‘body snatcher’ kept 26 female corpses in tiny flat

November 5, 2011

Mr Moskvin was well known in the region for his fascination with local cemeteries Photo: LIFE NEWS

RUSSIAN police arrested a man who was found to be living with the mummified bodies of 26 women. Historian Anatoly Moskvin, 45, stole the dead bodies of females aged between 15 and 25 years from their graves, dressed them like dolls and then kept them in his three-room apartment in the city of Nizhny...
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How’d you like your koala – braised or stewed? Mar-soup-ial madness

October 31, 2011

These cuddly creatures are reportedly being served up as stew in some Chinese restaurants. Picture: Adam Head

A RESTAURANT in southern China is reportedly serving up stewed koala. An Australian man visiting the Panyu district in Guangdong has told radio 3AW he was shocked to see the marsupial offered on the menu. The traveller said hungry diners were able to select the live animal from a cage, where its price...
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Parents of Adolf Hitler, Aryan Nation cleared

October 27, 2011

A US couple who named their children Adolf Hitler and Aryan Nation have been found not guilty of abuse but will not regain custody of their children. Five-year-old Adolf Hitler and his sisters Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, both three, have been in foster care since being removed from their parents in...
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Wesley Warren Jr needs $US1 million surgery to correct his 45kg scrotum

October 22, 2011

Wesley Warren Jr is trying to raise $US1 million for surgery to correct his scrotal elephatiasis. Picture: Wesley Warren Jr / Facebook

A LAS Vegas man with a medical condition that has caused his scrotum to swell to more than 45kg is trying to raise $US1 million for surgery to correct it. Wesley Warren Jr, went public about his condition – scrotal elephantiasis – because he is desperate to try and raise the cash for the...
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Missing tourist ‘feared eaten by cannibals’

October 17, 2011

Stefan Ramin, 40, and wife Heike Dorsch, 37 (Picture supplied by Stefan Ramin)

Forensic experts fear a missing German yachtsman was “hacked to pieces and burned” by cannibals while visiting a remote island in French Polynesia on the trip of a lifetime. Ash remains, believed to be those of 40-year-old Hamburg man Stefan Ramin, have been found in a valley in Nuku Hiva, the largest of the...
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