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Father cradles, kisses his dead 3yr old killed in Israeli airstrike

A Palestinian father cradled, kissed and cried as he said goodbye to his 3 year old daughter, Rahaf who was killed alongside her pregnant 30-year-old mum, Noor Hassan in an Israeli air strike near Gaza City, on Sunday, October 11, when their house collapsed. The Israeli army said that its planes were targeting two Hamas weapons-manufacturing sites in the area and not civilians. The mother and child were buried today. See more photos after the cut

Police recovers N27million from Festac bank robbers

This is an update on the Festac robbery early today. Hours after the armed robbery gang numbering over 40 stormed both Diamond and Access Banks at 4th Avenue, Festac Town, Lagos, the Area E Command have released some exclusive details. Below is a statement from the police

Woman Delibrately Blind Herself To Fulfil Life-long Wish

A 30-year-old woman from North Carolina, United States, who has been obsessed with the idea of being blind right from childhood, had finally fulfilled that long held desire by deliberately damaging her eyesight.

Eleven women wear same wedding dress in 120 years

A soon to be bride, Abigail Kingston, is warming up to wear a 120-year-old wedding dress worn by 10 other women in her family on their big days.

This country has the world's smartest kids

  Singapore is officially the country with the smartest high-school kids in the world . The country's academic success has helped it become a thriving economy, and the way it has built its education system could hold lessons for the rest of the world. "Singapore is a fascinating case," said Marc Tucker, the president of the U.S. National Center on Education and the Economy . "[It] was a major British port before the Second World War. When Britain got out and closed its base Singapore was in terrible shape. "Now today they are one of the best performing economies in the entire world. They did it largely with education and training." If Singapore's rags-to-riches transition was built on education, the secret of its education system is the quality of its teachers. "They source their teachers from among the best kids coming out of their high schools," explained Tucker. 'Creative use of knowledge' In the post-war y...

Mum gives birth to the biggest baby in India

25 year old Goga Bai and her 28 year old  husband Ravindra Kumar have become proud parents of a boy weighing in at a staggering 5.970kg (13.16 pounds).

Photos: 2 kids who served as ring bearer & flower girl at a wedding marry 17 years later

Adrian and Brooke Franklin walked down the aisle as ring bearer and flower girl in a wedding back in 1998, when they were just kids. On Sept. 19, they walked down the aisle together again... as bride and groom this time.