A pregnant teenager has lost her baby and been left in a wheelchair after a tattoo on her breast became infected. Luisa Fernanda, from central Colombia's Casanare Department, fell ill after having the tattoo on her right breast.
Teenager, 16, died from a hairball in her stomach after she chewed her own hair
A 16-year-old has tragically died after a hairball in her stomach became infected. Jasmine Beever, from Skegness, collapsed in college on 7 September and was sent home to rest. After coming out in "blotches", she was rushed to hospital in an ambulance where doctors fought to keep her alive. She was successfully resuscitated for 15 minutes, but then passed away later that evening.
Migrant Children Moved Under Cover of Darkness to a Texas Tent City.
In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room.
Georgia women gives new hair, hope to kids.
What is it like to give new hope through a new look? Just ask a Lithia Springs woman who is stitching together wigs for children who have lost or can't grow hair.
IKEA shoppers cause a STAMPEDE at pop-up store.
This is the crazy moment a pop-up IKEA store was forced to close early after shoppers caused a stampede for a new designer range. Footage captured the chaotic scene in Paris as large crowds push each other to try to gain quick entry to snap up the limited pieces. Security staff at the venue were unable to hold the crowd back safely and so were forced to shut it down.
Tralee Advertiser apologises for publishing 'racist joke'.
THE TRALEE ADVERTISER has apologised after publishing an offensive ‘joke’. The free local newspaper published a story about a “black Jewish boy.” The story appeared in a section of the publication called It’s Only A Joke.
The total cost of Harry and Meghan's wedding has been revealed £32 MILLION... casual!
Listen, none of us is under the illusion that weddings come cheap, especially if you're royalty. We knew that Harry and Meghan's wedding would be pricey...
Eight-year-old girl tackles gun-wielding robbers after they mug her dad .
This is the astonishing moment an eight-year-old girl tackles gun-wielding robbers moments after they mugged her father. Schoolgirl Brielle Minia was playing on the driveway outside her home when the four men walked past posing as DVD sellers last Thursday afternoon in Cavite, Philippines. The three masked men approached her dad - who had just returned home from work in a white 4x4 and held him up at gunpoint to steal his cash while one of the gang raided the family home. The group ran back down the driveway in the opposite direction with the only person between them and their getaway motorcycles being the little girl, who was walking back to see what the noise was. Wearing a pink dress and pigtails, Brielle bravely lunged at the same man who had been holding the silver semi-automatic handgun. She ripped open his bag, sending the contents he had stolen onto the flood. The youngster frantically tried to scoop it up like the robber towered over her then made a break for freedom.
But incredibly, the fearless youngster climbed to her feet and sprinted after the robber before hurling herself at them for the second time as they climbed onto their bikes. Brielle was kicked to the ground and suffered cuts and bruises to her face, hands and a suspected broken nose.
The youngster spent two nights in the hospital, before returning home and bravely declaring: ''I'll get them next time.''Brielle said that she was ''not afraid'' of the ''cowards'' and would do the same thing again. She added: ''I'm so angry they stole my daddy's money. If I ever see them again they'll be sorry.''Brielle's aunty Being, who lives with the youngster in a family compound with several other relatives, said that the family were shaken by the incident but not intimated. She added: ''Thank God we were safe and all they took was money. It's just money that can be earned, now they can wait for karma. My niece is really brave.''Police are investigating the armed robbery which took place just before 5pm local time in the General Trias City area of Cavite province. Officers believe the attackers had planned ahead and knew the father would be arriving back at that time. A spokesman said today (Mon): ''We have collected the CCTV from the family and we are studying the video footage to try to identify the offenders.''We're also reviewing the previous days and other CCTV cameras in the area to see if the gang had shown up there before.''Turtle found with straw stuck up its nose.
By now, more than 6 million people have seen the disturbing 8-minute viral video of the sea turtle with a stream of blood draining from his nostril, as two researchers work to extract a 4-inch plastic straw. The plastic was lodged in the turtle’s nasal cavity, reaching down into his throat, inhibiting his breathing and sense of smell a turtle’s most important tool for finding food. It was no doubt messing with the turtle’s orientation and migration, and possibly even hindering his ability to find a mate.“He might have also had trouble eating,” said Christine Figgener, a PhD student at Texas A&M University and a sea turtle expert, who was on the team that found the distressed creature and gave him aid. “Imagine you are regurgitating a hard spaghetti for example while laughing which ends up in your nose and gets stuck.”Figgener and fellow researcher Dr Nathan J.Robinson isn’t sure how long the sea turtle was swimming around with that thing in his nose. “It didn’t look super new, but who knows.“We have been talking about the detrimental effects of straws for years, but seeing that video, as horrible as it was, is what we needed to wake people up,” Figgener said in an interview with Plastic Free Times, two months after the video was first posted on YouTube.
The turtle was a sexually mature Olive Ridley male an endangered creature, found in waters in between Playa Nancite (Santa Rosa National Park) and Playa Cabuyal, off the Pacific shore of Costa Rica. Olive Ridleys are thought to reach sexual maturity at about 12 years and may live up to 50 years, but they don’t know for sure. “So our guy should have been somewhere between 12 and 50 years old,” Figgener surmised. Natural predators are numerous, including sharks, killer whales and big fish. But the notoriously slow animal cannot outrun a dog or a racoon drawn to its nesting place because of someone’s trash that is strewn on the beach. Nor can it always tell a piece of plastic from a tasty crustacean in the water. When Figgener saw the turtle, she thought, “Is it a straw? Don’t tell me it’s a frickin’ straw.” You can hear her German-accented voice of exasperation and determination in the video. Figgener said the turtle may have ingested the straw while looking for food on the seabed. Perhaps he “gagged on it, regurgitated it and it ended up in the wrong passageway. The mouth cavity (similar to us humans) in turtles is connected to the nose; the arch of the removed straw matches this anatomical characteristic perfectly.”Without their permit for temporal removal of the turtle from its ocean habitat, Figgener said her team could have gone to jail. But after working in Costa Rica for almost a decade, they knew there was no vet around the corner, especially one specialized in reptiles. So they acted, and they filmed it. After the incidence, Figgener said the team spent the two-hour boat ride back to harbour in silence. “We had no words. We just knew we had to get the video out to the public.”The team ended up having to leach WiFi from a restaurant. It took eight hours to get the footage uploaded to YouTube, where it just took off. “This video had so much impact (because) it scared/shocked people out of their oblivion.“I’m a marine biologist and we stumble across plastic and fishing hooks all the time,” she said. “This is my life; it’s my whole life.” Figgener usually walks the beaches at night. Sadly, “At least a turtle per night has some kind of incident with ocean pollution.”“I had a turtle that had a piece of plastic sticking out when she was dropping her eggs. She’d ingested a plastic bag, and it was tangled in her intestines. When we find dead turtles, we dissect them, and almost every single turtle has some kind of plastic.” Propeller slashes and cuts from the fishing line are the sharks and killer whales of human activity. As for plastic playing a part in threatening the health of marine creatures, says Figgener: “We are grown-ups; we can drink out of a glass without a straw.“People are so worried about their afterlife, but I’m worried about my ecological footprint now in this lifetime. I think that’s what we need to be worried about. Sustainability is actually just that. You want to make things better for the next generation.”
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