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The 11th annual wife-carrying race took place in Surrey on Sunday. Competitors from across the world took on the 380m obstacle course through swamps and bogs with the aim of becoming the UK wife-carrying champion. Chris Hepworth carried Tanisha Prince on his way to victory and said: "I was sneakily confident I might be able to win because I'm quite a keen runner, she's quite light so maybe. But when they started and went up the hill so hard I thought I'm probably not going to win. I wasn't very confident then. Читать дальше...

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The harsh reality of freestyle drone pilots, hours of workbench and practice at the simulator, just to get those few minutes of adrenaline in the air. But most of the the time, especially at the beginning is just crash over crash.

Scottish guy stumbles upon a thief proof van

Almost 60 firefighters are on the scene after a fire broke out in a South London tower block. Footage shows emergency services on the scene as smoke billows out of the building. Eight fire engines were called out to deal with the fire on the 13th floor of a block of flats in Winstanley road in Battersea. The blaze began just after 1 PM on Monday and was brought under control around 2 PM, the London Fire Brigade tweeted. The cause is not yet known and it is unclear wether there were any injuries.

Bad news for air travelers. There will be strikes at four airports in Germany this Tuesday. Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne and Bremen will be hit. Ground staff and, in some cases, the fire brigades will stop working. The Verdi trade union is organising the strike and says that sweeping restrictions are to be expected. The day is part of a nationwide strike wave in the public sector that will continue until 13 April. Verdi is asking for better pay for employees. Air traffic strikes are also taking place outside Germany... Читать дальше...

Targeting the city of Doma with poison gas by the Syrian regime

Hundreds of thieves made a clean getaway after looting an overturned lorry of its load of washing powder as police watched on helplessly. The lorry was full of boxes of MAQ brand washing powder when it overturned in the Midvaal municipality of north-eastern South Africa's Gauteng Province. A video shot by a passenger in a passing car shows hundreds of people at the scene, with many standing on the side of the felled lorry. Many vehicles are parked nearby as people pull over to help themselves to the free goods. Читать дальше...

This is the moment Western tourists appear to damage a rare flower that takes years of cultivation to bloom in Indonesia. Video from Agam in West Sumatra's Pandan forest shows the foreigners, believed to be from the UK and South Korea, inspecting the Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the corpse flower. One tourist in a chequered shirt and glasses can be seen using a piece of sharpened bamboo to poke the flower. The filmer of the video calls out to the tourists, who immediately stop interfering with the flower. Читать дальше...

This is the amusing moment a woman freaks out when finding out she is going to the circus with her partner and in-laws. The footage, captured on March 30 in the inside of a car, shows Kori screaming wildly as she sees a circus tent in the distance. ''What is that?'', she shouts. Kori's partner then asks his dad to reveal the surprise. ''It's a circus!'', replies the man. Her reaction is priceless. Kori's husband writes: ''My wife has wanted to go to the circus for a long time. ''My parents... Читать дальше...

Tornado Hits Very Powerfully. This happens in the East Java region. Tornado hit the roof of the house and this happened about 20 minutes in Surabaya last week

Boyfriend left holding her pink dress

Spanish wineries led the world's wine exportation of the red stuff in 2017 with sales of 22.8 million hectoliters, according to data released by the Spanish Observatory of Wine Markets. This puts the country ahead of its main competitors Italy (21 million hectoliters) and France (15 million hectoliters). However, for all the wine trickling out of the country, Spain only made EUR2,850 million in revenue, whereas France brought home over triple this figure (EUR9,000 million) and Italy billed over double (EUR6,000 million). Читать дальше...

Behind the scenes look at my days on OUTLANDER I need to do more extras work soon

Off duty pickup truck driver attempts to help LA County with one of its many problems. It's a classic.

Perfectly intact 114-million-year-old nautilus fossil is exactly the same as its living counterparts KARTAL G"OKTAN: 114-million-year-old nautilus fossil. ADNAN OKTAR: It is 114 million years old. Did it undergo any change? It did not. It has been exactly the same for 114 million years. What happened to the Darwinists' claim that life forms undergo change? This 114-million-year-old nautilus is exactly the same as its living counterparts. EBRU ALTAN: We can see the chambers on the other side. Living nautilus functions using the same system. Читать дальше...

"What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah - for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say, 'Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from You!? " Surat An-Nisa, 75

Let this be a lesson those who wish to test Israel's sovereignty. Am Yisrael Chai!

Sweet little Sebastian's struggle is real!This adorable French bulldog of only three weeks old was learning how to walk. Owner Michaella took her time teaching the pup but couldnt resist picking him up for a cuddle. Credit: frenchieofied via Storyful

A family was on a summer vacation when they spotted a massive tortoise casually crawling onto a pedestrian crossing in the city of Feodosia in Crimea.The family walked beside the tortoise until they realized the road was too busy to cross and could potentially be dangerous. With that in mind, they safely lifted the animal to the side of the road. Credit: Marina Prihodko via Storyful

Funny guy and producer Daniel Bijan from Toronto, Canada, seriously loves the musical versatility of a coconut.In a recent comedy video, Daniel recorded a song entitled I'm In Love With The Coco(nut) and used nothing but an actual coconut and his voice to compose the piece. In the video, Daniel can be seen tapping, shacking, and scratching a coconut to make the bizarre composition. Credit: Daniel Bijan via Storyful

Within living memory policing in Northern Ireland looked like a war zone with armed soldiers, checkpoints, and armoured landrovers driving snatch squads around to support regular foot patrols. And this was when times were good. At other times it was violent, and sometimes deadly, and although by 1998 it had long been clear no military solution was possible to both the IRA and loyalist paramilitaries, the three-decades long conflict seemed intractable. This is why the Good Friday agreement, which ended it all after years in the making... Читать дальше...

The European Commission's First Vice President, Frans Timmermans, is in Warsaw to try and resolve a spat which threatens to strip Poland of its voting rights. He's meeting Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki over a controversial overhaul of the country's justice system. The reforms undermine democracy, say critics, while Poland has maintained they pose no risk to the rule of law. Brussels has taken the unprecedented step of triggering Article 7. That could ultimately lead to the loss of voting, but Hungary has vowed to block any such move.

Two extreme sport enthusiasts hit the slopes in Val d'Is'ere, France in February 2018, but they didn't just go skiing instead they went speed-riding!Gliding and skiing through untouched drifts of snow, Sydney and Arthur had a fantastic time and recorded the whole thing.Speed-riding is a combination of skiing and paragliding with very small wings. It allows you to fly down very fast and reach places you would never be able to reach while just skiing. This video summarizes our trip and all the fun with doing speed-riding... Читать дальше...

Colin Aitchison was part of an eco tour when he spotted a stag taking a swim in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, as seen in this video recorded on April 7.Though the behavior is uncommon, it’s not unknown.Stuff.co.nz quoted Phil Clerke, a manager with the Department of Conservation, as saying that deer occasionally swim out to islands. Credit: Colin Aitchison via Storyful