An elderly shopkeeper in Turkey almost lost his left arm after his hand became seriously infected as a result of a human bite during an attempted robbery.

Doctors frequently warn that another human’s bite is often more dangerous than that of a dog or a cat, but a 60-year-old man in Istanbul, Turkey, found that out the hard way after nearly losing his arm. The case occurred last year, but it was only reported by Turkish media this year, after it was published in a scientific journal by the doctors who treated the patient. In early 2024, a 60-year-old shop owner was robbed while working at his store in Üsküdar, a district of Istanbul. Two masked men entered the shop after closing with the clear intention of stealing, so the owner tried to stop them. In the physical struggle that ensued, the 60-year-old managed to immobilize one of the thieves, who bit his hand hard in a desperate attempt to escape. 

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An Indiana bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against the Meta CEO whose name he shares for repeatedly banning him on his social platforms.

It’s not easy being Mark Zuckerberg. No, not the Facebook founder, but an Indiana bankruptcy lawyer whose life has been negatively affected by sharing the younger tech maven’s name. Not only does he get over 100 emails every day from people who think that they are writing to the Meta chief executive officer, but he can rarely make a reservation at a restaurant without getting hung up on because people mistake him for a prankster. But the thing that irritates him the most is getting banned on Facebook and Instagram despite investing tens of thousands of dollars in ads for the simple reason that his name is Mark Zuckerberg.

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A child in Shanghai, China, could not be issued a birth certificate and scheduled for vaccinations one year after his birth because the parents couldn’t settle on a name.

The Pudong New Area People’s Court in Shanghai recently heard a divorce case involving a couple who registered their marriage in 2023 and had a healthy baby boy the following year. Everything started going downhill from there because they couldn’t settle on a name for the child. Each party insisted on naming the child according to their own wishes and demanded that the other provide the original documents and a power of attorney, but neither of them gave in. Evidence presented in Court showed that they went to the hospital separately to try to have their preferred name registered for the child, but both attempts were rejected due to non-compliance with regulations.

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A Texas man has been charged with murder following a game in which he and his friend took turns shooting each other in the head with rifles while wearing Kevlar helmets.

On 17 August, good friends Sean O’Donnell (37) and Aaron Prout (34) were hanging out in the former’s home when they decided to play a very stupid and dangerous game – taking turns shooting each other in the head with a rifle while wearing a Kevlar helmet for protection. Kevlar helmets are used by modern soldiers because they are known to whithstand heavy impacts, but they are not completely bulletproof. In this particular case, the two friends, who had been drinking, were reportedly holding the Kevlar helmet above their heads while the other tried to aim at it with a rifle. All it took was for one of them to miss their shot by a few millimeters to turn their friendly game into a tragedy.

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A German teacher who has been on sick leave since 2009, while receiving a full salary, has sued her employer after being asked to undergo a medical examination to confirm her condition.

An unnamed teacher from Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia has sued her employer after it began to challenge her unusually long absence from the workplace and asked her to undergo a medical examination. The teacher had been on sick leave for 16 years, during which time she did not attend her duties at a vocational college in Wesel but continued to collect her full salary. Under German law, teachers are classed as ‘beamte’ or public servants and enjoy certain privileges, including taking a full salary while on indefinite sick leave. Only in this particular case, the woman’s employer recently asked for proof of her condition and requested she take a medical test.

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Chinese doctors recently saved a man’s life after removing a squirming 18-cm-long worm that had taken residence in his brain years after swallowing raw snake organs.

The lucky man, identified only as Li by Chinese news media, was recently rushed to a hospital in Hunan after he started experiencing sudden blackouts, seizures, and foaming at the mouth. His troubles had begun about a year ago when he experienced a sensation of a foreign object in his eye, described as a mosaic-like thing appearing in his vision. He sought medical attention, and while the ophthalmologist found nothing out of the ordinary after examining him, an MRI scan revealed a foreign object behind his eyes. However, because the vision problem had disappeared, he refused to undergo surgery and have the foreign object removed. Little did he know that his decision would allow an uninvited guest to settle and grow in his brain.

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Mercari, Japan’s leading online flea market, decided to prevent the sale of ultrasound photos on its platform to prevent people from using them to commit pregnancy fraud.

Selling ultrasound photos of unborn babies on a flea market app is strange, but Mercari never even considered taking action against the practice until one person noticed the high number of ultrasound pics and positive pregnancy tests listed on the platform and posted pictures of them on X (Twitter), asking other users what they thought about it. The post went viral, attracting hundreds of comments, most of which agreed that the two only logical answers were pranking or scamming someone into thinking they had gotten you pregnant. While the first one could be regarded as an innocent joke, the potential implications of pregnancy scamming recently led Mercari to ban the sale of such items on its online flea market.

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A Chinese teenager suffered the fright of his life when he woke up one day with no feeling in his body due to a habit that is becoming more and more common.

Like many youths his age, Xiao Dong, a 19-year-old third-year student at a university in Quanzhou, China’s Fujian province, spent a lot of time looking down at his phone, but this summer, the consequences of his daily habit became life-threatening. After getting a summer job washing dishes and wiping tables with his head bent forward for hours on end, the pressure on the blood vessels near his spine became too much, as he also spent most of his free time looking down at his phone, playing video games and browsing on social media platforms. At first, he started experiencing numbness in his neck, arms, and legs, but on July 30, he woke up with no feeling at all in his legs and could not move.

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A married man is considering suing a pharmacy after it contacted his wife over a failed e-payment for contraceptive medicine and ended up revealing his extramarital affair.

The scorned man, whose name has not been revealed by the media, visited the Pinggang branch of Dashenlin Pharmacy in Yangjiang, Guangdong province, where he attempted to pay 15.8 yuan ($2.2) for birth control pills using his mobile app. Due to “system problems,” the transaction did not go through, but the pharmacy staff only noticed after he had left the branch, so they tried texting the phone number listed on his membership card. However, the number was his wife’s, and when she asked about the nature of the purchase, the pharmacy employee explicitly confirmed that it was for contraceptive pills. The husband claims that by disclosing this vital piece of information, the pharmacy ruined his marriage and that of his mistress.

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A Chengdu man reported that his wife developed depression and anxiety after being seen naked by two window cleaners at their high-end apartment in the Chinese city.

The bizarre incident occurred back in April, but the man, identified only as Mr. Cheng by the media, claims that his wife has been suffering from depression and anxiety ever since. He and his wife rented a high-rise apartment in a luxury apartment complex in Chengdu, China’s Sichuan province, for 10,000 yuan (approximately $1,390) a month and specifically told management to notify them before the exterior glass walls were cleaned. Mr Cheng claims he made his request about being notified to the building’s front desk, to the housekeeper, and even on the building group chat, but one morning, two workers suddenly appeared outside their bedroom window, startling his wife as she slept naked.

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An angry café patron in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain, was recently arrested for allegedly setting fire to the eatery because the staff told him they had run out of mayonnaise.

Last Wednesday, the staff and customers of a café in the municipality of Los Palacios y Villafranca, Seville, got the fright of their lives when a man sprayed petrol on the bar and set it on fire. The man, whose identity has not been revealed, went to the restaurant with his son and ordered two sandwiches. Surveillance cameras show him getting up from his table and talking to one of the waiters. The 50-something patron reportedly asked for mayonnaise for his sandwich, but was told that they didn’t have any. He then asked another waiter and was told the same thing, so he just stormed out of the café, walked to a nearby gas station, and came back with a bottle of petrol.

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An employee at Barcelona’s El Prat Airport recently recounted the “totally surreal” story of a couple who left their 10-year-old son at the terminal after discovering that his passport had expired.

Lilian Limasin, an air traffic controller at the El Prat Airport in Barcelona, recently took to TikTok to share an incredible story that took place at her workplace last month. Her day had started normally, but while handling the departure of a plane headed for Casablanca, Morocco, at 8:30 am, Limasin received an emergency message to ground the aircraft until further notice. Minutes earlier, Catalan police had found a small child wandering alone in the terminal, who told them that his parents had left without him. An emergency call was first made within the airport asking for the parents to come forward, but no one did, so the airport staff asked the child for information about his parents and realized that they were already on board the plane to Casablanca. That’s when the Spanish Civil Guard requested that the plane’s departure be stopped to resolve the matter.

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Seoul Police has been testing life-size holographic police officers as a way to increase people’s perception of safety and discourage crime in South Korea’s capital.

Every evening, between 7 pm and 10 pm, a uniformed policeman measuring over 170 cm tall appears in Judong No. 3 Park, a busy area in Jung-gu, Seoul, reminding residents that “in emergencies, the police will respond immediately,” and that “there are surveillance cameras everywhere.” But this is no ordinary police officer, but a 3D hologram designed to provide psychological stability to citizens and prevent disorderly behavior. Created by Hologrammica, a tech company specializing in holographic content, the life-size policeman model was installed in October of last year, on a trial basis, and recent data shows that it has had a significant impact on crime reduction in Judong No. 3 Park.

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A Tanzanian man who came to the hospital complaining of pain and pus discharge from his right nipple was shocked to learn that he had been living with a large knife blade lodged in his chest for eight years.

Doctors at the Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania recently published a most unusual case study in the scientific journal National Library of Medicine. They wrote about a 44-year-old generally healthy man who came to the hospital with a 10-day-long history of white pus discharge from his right nipple. He denied any chest pain, difficulty breathing, cough, or fever, but asked if he had anything notable to tell doctors, he recalled a violent altercation eight years prior, during which he had sustained several cuts to his face, back, chest, and abdomen. Doctors had managed to suture the wounds back then, and he had lived a mostly uneventful life ever since, up until his nipple started oozing pus. Unable to determine the cause of the infection, doctors ordered an X-ray exam and were shocked to see a giant knife blade lodged in the man’s chest.

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A Chinese old man recently fell victim to the deception of artificial intelligence by falling so in love with an AI-generated online model that he asked his wife for a divorce.

According to the Beijing Daily, a 75-year-old man named Jiang came across an AI-generated female avatar while browsing social media. To those familiar with digital avatars, the girl is obviously an AI creation, but to Jiang’s untrained eye, she is just a beautiful girl who enjoys having conversations with him. It doesn’t even matter that her speech and her moving lips are out of sync. As time goes by, he becomes so obsessed with his online girlfriend that the highlight of his day is waiting by his phone to get new generic messages from her. At one point, after his wife scolds him for spending too much time on his phone, the man tells his spouse of several decades that he wants to divorce her to fully dedicate himself to the AI avatar.

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