Brazilian Police Discover 50 Kilos Of Cocaine Hidden Inside Laundry Detergent Boxes.

On the surface of it, a laundry detergent box sounds like quite a good place to hide loads of cocaine. Because, you know, they're usually full of white powder. However, one gang in Brazil appears to have made a major balls-up at a key stage of their drug smuggling operation, as 50kg of coke-filled boxes ostensible containing washing up powder ended up on the shelves of a store in São Paulo.

Organisers Of Latitude Festival Have Spray-Painted Sheep Bright Pink.

Latitude Festival has been slammed by critics after sharing a bazaar-baric video of a herd of sheep that had been spray-painted bright pink. Organisers of the popular Suffolk event posted the short clip to their official Twitter account, showing about a dozen sheep wandering through the campsite.

Albert Flick, a 77-year-old murderer released for being too old to be violent, kills another woman

Albert Flick, a hardened murderer released in his late 60s after being deemed too old to be dangerous, struck again by stabbing a woman to death in front of her twin sons 11 times in broad daylight.

Mar: The Holy Honey Healing ritual of Ethiopia’s honey churches.

“Honour physicians for their services for the Lord created them; for their gifts of healing came from the most high, and they are rewarded by the King…The Lord created medicine out of the Earth and the sensible will not despise them. Was not water made sweet by a tree so that its power might be known? And he gave skills to human beings that he may be glorified in his marvellous works.

The Talking Fabric: Hidden symbolism of the Kente cloth.

“Afrikan traditional textiles are a visual representation of history, philosophy, ethics, social conduct, religious beliefs, political thought and aesthetic principles.” Abraham Ekow Asmah.The narratives surrounding the origins of the Kente cloth and Kente weaving are of varying measure and degree.

Why the Aka pygmy people of central Africa have the ‘best dads in the world.

No father spends more time alone with their children than the average Aka.

The first dictionary written by Cab Calloway, an African American that introduced black slang to white folks in 1938.

Bust your conk, crumb crushers, few and two, and gimme some skin.

Man who has not washed or cut his 6ft long dreadlocks for 40 years.

In the last 40 years, he has neither washed his hair nor cut them. Sakal Dev Tuddu from the Munger district of eastern Bihar state, India, now sports six-foot-long dreadlocks which he has kept for that long because he believes God visited him in a dream and asked him never to cut it or wash it.

Obama ‘blessed’ Chicago kids with a surprise visit.

When a group of South Side teens participating in the Obama Youth Jobs Corps program at the Obama Foundation offices in Chicago gathered, the least of the things they hoped to be blessed with was the presence of former President Barack Obama himself.

Nigerian university unveils world’s first plant-based anti-snake vaccine.

Snake bites may not be seen by many people as being a major public health concern, yet, tens of thousands of people die from snake bites every year.