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Marvel Fan Takes Matters Into Own Hands, Transforms Into Deadpool After Speeding Driver Kills His Pet Cat Groot

When a man's cat was struck and killed by a speeding motorist on his street, he decided to stop waiting for the city to act and to channel Deadpool instead.

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Woman Snapped Haunting Final Photo Before Being Trampled to Death by 'Easy-Going' Cows

A woman trampled to death by "docile" cows in a small English village sent a photo of the animals to her mother just moments before the fatal incident.

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Social Media User Plummets to His Death After Scaling Iconic Bridge to 'Create Content'

A British man fell to his death while climbing a Spanish bridge in an attempt to "create content" for social media, reported local authorities.

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Woman Who Sued Company for Not Giving Her a Farewell Card Finds Out They Did Buy a Card But Almost No One Signed It

A British woman who sued a former employer for neglecting to give her a farewell card lost her lawsuit when it was revealed her colleagues had bought her a card, but no one signed it.

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Man Accidentally Threw Away Bitcoin Hard Drive Worth $500 Million. Now He's Suing City for Refusing to Let Him Look for It in the Dump

A UK man is suing the city council for millions after being denied permission to excavate a landfill to find a hard drive containing Bitcoin worth over $500 million.

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Aquarium Visitors in China Shelled Out Big Bucks to See the World's Longest Fish. It Was Actually a Robot

A Sea World in China duped customers into thinking its whale shark was legitimate when it was really just a multi-million dollar robot.

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Historic Zoo Baffled After Monkeys Mysteriously Die After Exhibiting 'Unusual Behavior'

The sudden demise of several monkeys has left Hong Kong zoo officials baffled as they struggle to identify the cause of the deaths.

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Bizarre Oozing 'Blobs' Take Over Canadian Beach: 'I've Never Seen Anything Like This, Never'

Mysterious white blobs have been washing up on nearly 28 miles of Canadian beaches, baffling locals and experts who can't seem to identify them.

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Israel Strikes Lebanon After Netanyahu Vows No Mercy For Hezbollah

The premier's pledge on Monday came a day after a drone attack by the Iran-backed Lebanese group on an Israeli base killed four soldiers, while volunteer rescuers said another 60 people were wounded.

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US, Philippines Launch War Games A Day After China's Taiwan Drills

The annual Kamandag, or Venom, exercises are focussed on defending the north coast of the Philippine's main island of Luzon, which lies about 800 kilometres (500 miles) from self-ruled Taiwan.

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Netanyahu Tells UN To Move Lebanon Peacekeepers Out Of 'Harm's Way'

Speaking ahead of a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said Israeli forces had asked UNIFIL several times to leave, saying that the peacekeepers' presence had "the effect of providing Hezbollah terrorists with human shields".

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is now on Russia's wanted list

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Zelensky Says NKorea Sending Troops To Russian Army

Zelensky's comments came days after visiting several European capitals to press his case for more military and financial help in the war against invading Russian forces.

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China's Military Encircles Taiwan In 'Warning' Drills

Beijing has not ruled out using force to bring Taiwan under its control and Monday's drills represent its fourth round of large-scale war games in just over two years.

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South Korea Military Says 'Fully Ready' As Drone Flights Anger North

The nuclear-armed North has accused Seoul of flying drones over its capital to drop propaganda leaflets filled with "inflammatory rumours and rubbish", and warned on Sunday that it would consider it "a declaration of war" if another drone was detected.

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Chinese Woman Caught Trying to Smuggle Dozens of Turtles from US to Canada by Inflatable Kayak

A woman from Hong Kong pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle 29 endangered turtles from the U.S. into Canada using an inflatable kayak.

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Drug Kingpin Used Laundered Pot Money to Purchase Iconic Banksy Artwork

A drug kingpin who used laundered money from his cannabis operation to acquire a collection of Banksy artwork has been sentenced to prison in South Wales.