All news by author: Ryan Fahey

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Actor found dead inside wooden chest with hands tied and metal wire around neck
Jefferson "Jeff" Machado da Costa, who has appeared on a number of Brazilian shows, was found stuffed inside his own wooden chest at a rundown property in Rio de Janeiro's Campo Grande area earlier this week
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Suez Canal ships on move again as stranded tug refloated after salvage operation
Egypt's Suez Canal is a vital waterway trade that allows ships a more direct route than the 3,000 mile journey around the tip of Africa - amounting to billions in revenue for global trade
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'I’m sharing this photo of my girl so other parents don’t suffer what I have'
An internet trend known as "Chroming" - which involves huffing toxic chemicals from aerosol cans has re-emerged on social media and claimed the lives of a number of teens, including 13-year-old Esra Haynes from Melbourne, Australia
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Two killed in rampage with man armed with knife and rifle in police stand-off
Police in Nakano City have urged locals to remain vigilant as they try to hunt down the unidentified suspect who stormed the building in Ebe, Nakano, a suburb of the capital, Tokyo
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Huge fire breaks out next to city's train station and spreads to apartment block
The enormous, towering inferno engulfed a structure in Surry Hills in the centre of Sydney, with footage from the scene showing the blaze had caught on in almost every room in the building
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Man finds meteorite weighing 8lbs in his garden - and it's worth a huge £175,000
Mahmut Sahin could barely believe it when the 4.5 billion-year-old space rock crashed into his yard in the town of Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein State, Germany
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Teen still suffering from severe allergic reaction to protein shake months later
Marta Perez, 19, suffered a severe allergic reaction after sipping on a pistachio-flavoured protein shake on September 28 before being admitted to the Hospital Verge dels Llris in Alcoi, Spain
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'Alien' with sharp teeth washes up on beach 'like something from horror film'
Anat Primo, who usually lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, was wandering along a beach on the paradise island of Ko Lanta when she spotted the grisly remains of a sea creature that resembled "something out of a horror movie"
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Police solve murder of teenager 50 years on thanks to new DNA techniques
DNA found at the scene of Sharron Prior's murder in Quebec, Canada matched samples taken from Franklin Maywood Romine - who had a long criminal history - and he also matched a witness' description of the suspect
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Gran, 95, who was tasered twice by police in care home dies from injuries
Dementia sufferer Clare Nowland, a mother-of-eight, was tasered by senior constable Kristian White, 33, when he found her brandishing a knife at the Yallambee Lodge care home in New South Wales in Australia
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Boy, 15, opens fire in school car park as bullet seen lodged in wall in shooting
The unidentified 15-year-old, who is thought to have been a former student, shot at least three bullets towards his former school, the fee-paying Atlatnis Beach Baptist College in Two Rocks, northern Perth
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Boy uses a slingshot to save his sister from being abducted from backyard
The 17-year-old's name has not been released though he has been charged as an adult with one count of attempted kidnapping/child enticement, and one count of assault and battery
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Man eats nothing and has only drank fizzy drinks 'for energy' for 17 years
Iranian national Gholamreza Ardeshiri, says he stopped eating food in June 2006, adding that he doesn't feel hungry and that the only thing that gives him energy are fizzy drinks
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Moment leopard goes on rampage through village before it mauled six victims
Terrified villagers chased the big cat as it entered a house in Marauli Katheria village in India's Uttar Pradesh district before it went on to injure six other people
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Wife dies after being in a coma for last 31 years from horror car crash
Miriam Visantin died last week at the age of 57 after spending three decades in a vegetative state after being in a horror car crash on Christmas Eve 1991 - with her husband Angelo Farina staying by her side ever since
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Thousands of weapons handed to Serbian police after mass shootings
On May 3, teen student Kosta Kecmanović, 13, killed eight classmates and a security guard at Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in Belgrade, and within a couple of days a man opened fire on passersby from a moving car
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Influencer deforms face after invasive surgery to give herself 'cat's eyes'
Social media influencer Nasrin Corfield Smith, 37, who works at the Aesthetic Clinic in London, opted for a 'cat's eyes' surgery, which chops up the face to give the patient feline features, which some said should've led to her doctor being struck off
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Everything we know after latest update in the missing Amy Fitzpatrick case
Dubliner Amy Fitzpatrick was just 15 years old when she went missing from close to her family's home in Mijas Costa, Fuengirola, Spain on New Year's Day in 2008 - and authorities have been unable to find her since
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Man 'shoots girlfriend in the head' after she had abortion he didn't approve of'
It comes a few months after Texas outlawed abortions after six weeks of pregnancy in September 2021, but almost all abortions have been halted since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the summer
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'Our nightmare neighbour keeps feeding pigeons so we can't leave home'
Anna, who lives 12 miles north of Barcelona in Spain, described it as "distressing" as "hundreds of birds" flocked to a communal courtyard now full of feathers and pigeon droppings
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Woman burned alive after she was trapped inside caravan when it caught fire
British holidaymaker Hayley Louise Pearce, 54, was staying in the caravan in the Turkish port city of Bodrum with her boyfriend when the blaze started and they were unable to break through the door
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Two dead in shooting at Mercedes-Benz factory in Germany as suspect arrested
A 53-year-old man has been taken into custody in Sindelfingen, a city near Stuttgart, Germany after opening fire at a Mercedes-Benz factory
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Four barmy statements fact-checked from Trump's bizarre town hall rant with CNN
Last night former President Donald Trump appeared on stage at a town hall hosted by CNN, which in the past he branded "fake news" and the "liberal media", as he prepares for a potential election run in 2024
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Man kept body of his dead dad, 101, in freezer because he 'would miss him'
The 101-year-old man passed away 18 months ago from natural causes, but rather than laying him to rest, his 82-year-old son stuck him in the freezer of their home in Limburg in the Netherlands
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Hidden cave said to be 'entrance to hell' after explorers who went inside died
The Ahun Ru Paro cave system sits at the base of Mt Otokoyama in Japan's Hokkaido region - and was given its name by the local Ainu people after the mysterious death of someone who went inside