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Doctors say the cocaine hitting the streets in New York and Los Angeles is now cut with a drug that veterinarians use to de-worm livestock, causing cokeheads' skin to rot off. Unbelievable, you never know what it's been cut with. Read Full Story: Link Removed

hi guys, i no i not been on much over the last 2 weeks or so n maybe for another 2 weeks ill be on and off i have a perforated ear drum and the pain is rather annoying at times... when people say dont put cotton buds (the ones on the plastic stick thing) in your ear, seriously dont, i did that...

The owner of the Dragon Palace Chinese restaurant in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, has been fined £3,000 after live mice were found in a box of noodles. Inspectors also discovered decomposing bodies of rodents and mouse droppings, as well as congealed grease covering the ceiling at the...

Driver Andrew Linn survived after a 5cm-wide (2in) metal pole went through his mouth and out the back of his skull during a car crash. Mr Linn would have died if the pole went in either direction. The 34-year-old fell asleep at the wheel and hit a fence. One of the poles impaled him...

We told you about the high flying Hong Kong Airlines cabin crew being taught kick-@$$ kung fu skills - now see them in action. The stewardesses are taking classes in deadly Wing Chun, which teaches students how to knock an aggressor out cold within seconds. Airline bosses say their...

Larry King will explore Alzheimer’s disease in his first CNN special since stepping down from his nightly talk show. “Unthinkable: The Alzheimer’s Epidemic,” airing Sunday at 8 p.m., features interviews with several celebrities touched by the disease, including Maria Shriver, whose father...

Link Removed - Invalid URL The letters P-E-T-A stand for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals," but you're forgiven if you thought they stood for "Publicity Events involving T and A." After all, it seems every time there's a slow news day, PETA is there to take up the slack by...

The news out of Japan has not been good this week. Officials there raised the severity rating of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level, while the plant continues to dump radiation into the air and water and radiation is found in milk and drinking water in...

The 19-year-old is 2.12m (6ft 10in) tall and weighs 127kg (20st) but the world record has brought her a lifetime of loneliness. Her height is down to a brain tumour that was diagnosed when she was nine. It caused a hormone imbalance and impaired her vision. 'She looked different...

It's no optical illusion - Feng Hu really is clenching a steel nail with his eyelid and swinging weights from it. Kung Fu master Feng - from Luoyang, Henan province, central China - began staging his shows after decades of studying pain control techniques as part of his kung fu training...

The routine op should have been a snip - but Veronika Cruz, 35, was left in agony for three years after surgeons left a huge pair of scissors inside her. Bungling medics had left the eight-inch long scissors behind during an operation to remove her ovaries in Sao Paulo, Brazil. But...

While most people who have a sweet tooth love munching on cakes and biscuits, one US mum has a very different kind of craving. Mother-of-five Adele Edwards, from Florida, is addicted to another kind of snack - the suite kind, which most people normally just sit on to eat their dinner...

Microsoft has today opened a European Cloud & Interoperability Center (CIC) in Brussels. Located within the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Microsoft has invested 5.3m Euroes into the CIC – designed to drive innovation and economic growth across Europe through business use of cloud...

Electricity has been restored to three reactors at the Japanese nuclear plant wrecked by fire and explosions after the 11 March quake and tsunami. However the cooling systems are not yet operating, and the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, says the situation remains "very serious". Some workers...

Link Removed due to 404 Error 20:00 JST March 19: One of six tsunami-crippled nuclear reactors appeared to stabilize on Saturday as Japan raced to restore power to the stricken power plant to cool it and prevent a greater catastrophe. Engineers reported some rare success after fire trucks...

Japan has reclassified the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant, now placing it at five on the International Nuclear Events Scale. A level four event is classified by the International Atomic Energy Agency as being an accident with local consequences, while a level five incident is...

Chernobyl, the infamous atomic power plant in northern Ukraine, is getting ready for an anniversary. It will be 25 years next month since Reactor No. 4 exploded, causing the worst nuclear disaster in human history. A huge section of Europe was covered in a carcinogenic haze after the April 1986...

A spokesman says the fourth reactor at a damaged nuclear plant is now on fire; more radiation has been released, and it's enough in nearby areas to have an impact on health. Japan's prime minister says radiation has spread from the damaged reactors and warned of risks of more leaks. People...

How much radiation is dangerous? Radiation is measured using the unit sievert, which quantifies the amount of radiation absorbed by human tissues. One sievert is 1,000 millisieverts (mSv). In the U.S., the average person is exposed to about 6.2 millisieverts a year, mostly from background...