Milagros Caninos – A Haven for Mexico’s Disabled and Tortured Dogs
Milagros Caninos, or Miracle Dogs, is a very special canine shelter in Mexico City. For years it has been a true paradise for dogs suffering from terminal illnesses, are blind, paralyzed or have been tortured and abandoned on the streets of Mexico’s capital. Patricia Ruiz, the founder of Milagros Caninos lost her pet dachshund, Clavo (Spanish […]
Self-Taught Ninja Slices Soda Cans with Plastic Playing Cards
A man from China’s Hubei Province has recently become an internet celebrity of sorts, after a video of him throwing plastic playing cards at soda cans and actually putting holes in them, went viral. Who says there’s no such thing as comic-book-like superpowers? And I’m not talking about the funny ones you can buy at […]
The Fattening Farms of Mauritania – Force-Feeding Young Girls in the name of Beauty
While the whole world is obsessed over getting thin, it seems there are far-flung places in the world today where fat is still considered a thing of beauty. Not in a good way, though. In the West African nation of Mauritania, it is so important for girls to be fat that they are sent away […]