All news by author: Ryan Fahey

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Man accidentally captures 'UFO' while taking selfie at sand dunes
Ramiro Navarro was exploring the sand dunes of Bilbao in Mexico's Coahuila state when he took a selfie that captured a mysterious saucer-like object soaring in the distance
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Mega-rare lump of whale vomit worth £400k washes up on beach in Canary Islands
A group of scientists gutted an enormous 43ft, 20 tonne sperm whale after it washed up on Nogales Beach on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma in mid-May - but have now discovered that the ambergris they found inside is worth a whopping £394,000
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Restaurant that challenges diners to eat 108 dumplings is in trouble with police
The restaurant in Yibin, Sichuan is being investigated for violating China's strict anti-food waste laws - a big issue in China as many elderly people have memories of losing their loved ones to the world's largest famine during the 1950s and 60s
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Brit man suffers 'trauma injury' after being gored by bull at festival in Spain
Seven people had to be hospitalised after a run-in with the raging bovine at the annual Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain - which attracts brave, or foolish, thrillseekers who scramble along the narrow, cobbled streets and try to avoid the bulls' sharp horns
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Brit loses leg after daughter 'accidentally runs him over with boat' on holiday
The daughter is said to have thought she was putting the boat into the forward gear but put it in reverse and ran over her father who was paddling in the water behind her
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British man seriously injured after fall from second floor hotel room in Majorca
A 25-year-old Brit tourist plummeted from the second-floor of his hotel in the Ca'n Picafort area of Majorca, Spain in the early hours of this morning - with emergency responders rushing him to intensive care
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Six dead, including three children, in horror knife rampage at nursery in China
Police in China's south-eastern Guangdong province confirmed that a 25-year-old man, identified only by his surname, Wu, had carried out the heinous attack
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British teen 'lost control' of quad before fatal crash with pal on Greek holiday
Toxicological tests will also be conducted on 19-year-old Scottish Ryan Bennet who is believed to have died after a quad bike overturned and crushed him
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Peru Two narcotics mule Michaella McCollum's transformation as she graduates uni
Michaella McCollum, from Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland, has turned her life around after a prison stretch in Peru - where she was jailed for trying to smuggle 11kg of cocaine out of the country with her accomplice Melissa Reid
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Surgeons rebuild man's face after removing huge tumour that stopped breathing
The 3 lbs tumour, which was benign, was so large that the patient, identified only by his first name, Angelo, had trouble eating and breathing before the gruelling eight-hour operation in Milan to reconstruct his face
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Terrified Brits flee popular beach as shark spotted in shallow waters
British tourists and locals were enjoying a dip on a beach in Torremolinos, Malaga when the monster shark - later found to have been a blue shark - was seen darting through the waves on June 27
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Brit pensioner dies after being attacked by intruders in his Spanish home
The 81-year-old man, who has been identified only by his initials AHB, was rushed to hospital after being attacked by a gang of thugs who broke into his home in Estepa near Seville on Sunday morning
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'I was tortured in notorious Iran jail as terminally ill son lay dying outside'
On December 28, 2021 single parent Mehdi (Yasser) Akbari was left in despair after he learned that his only child, Amir-Ali, had passed away at a care facility while he was still trapped inside the notorious Evin prison on the outskirts of Tehran
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Horror as six people killed and 81 injured as fire rips through retirement home
Six people have been killed with scores injured, two of them in critical condition, after an inferno tore through a retirement home in Milan, Italy
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Moment man yells at passengers after 'spitting & threatening to slaughter crew'
Other passengers became concerned after the 36-year-old man was seen singing as he boarded the Airbus A321 Aegean Airlines flight bound for Athens late Wednesday night
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Covid kills 239 people in China - expert's verdict on what this means for UK
China's controversial "Zero-Covid" policy was abruptly halted in December, with an enormous surge of 60,000 deaths following shortly after - but deaths appeared to be on the way down until this month
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Volcano could erupt within days after 1,200 earthquakes hit in 48 hours
A monster surge of earthquakes along the Reykanes peninsular in Fagradalsfjall, Iceland over the past two days has caused concern for experts, who are now meeting to discuss the risk
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Young Brit tourist raped on Algarve beach as police launch probe into attack
The British woman, who's in her twenties, said she was attacked while on the sands of a beach in Praia da Rocha, Portimao, Portugal
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Putin chuckles as he hugs girl, 8, during Kremlin tour weeks after coup
Vladimir Putin said he invited the youngster and her parents to the Kremlin after he saw her crying because she couldn't meet him during a public stunt to drum up support after the Wagner mutiny
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McDonald's makes historic change to menu by launching £185 wedding package
The fast food chain has started with the wedding package in Jakarta, Indonesia - where guests get the choice of 100 chicken burgers and 100 McNugget boxes, or the same amount of cheeseburgers and chicken fingers
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Student fighting for life after falling from balcony while backpacking Thailand
Jack Heathcock, 21, a nursing student originally from Redcar, Teesside had been on a 'dream summer holiday' backpacking around Thailand with a couple of pals when the horrific accident happened
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Tourist, 20, dies floating in pool after lungs flooded with blood
The 20-year-old Irish tourist was found with blood-flooded lungs in a swimming pool at a hotel in Laganas, Zakynthos, where he had been enjoying a holiday with pals on July 2
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Brit dies in paragliding accident in Portugal as locals see him crash to ground
The British man came crashing down while paragliding over a beauty spot called Vale Bom in the Portuguese municipality of Cadaval just north of the capital, Lisbon
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Carnage on streets of Tel Aviv as car ploughs into pedestrians
It comes as the Israeli Defence Forces carried out a large scale operation to hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons in the Jenin refugee camp
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Brits travelling to France told not to cancel trips but to avoid cities at night
The rioting was sparked by the police killing of a 17-year-old called Nahel M, who was shot while driving a car through the Parisian suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday