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The BBC and other news organisations have quoted an apparent parody Twitter account in their reporting of the military takeover in Zimbabwe. BBC Radio 4’s Today programme referred to the @zanu_ pf account, which claimed to represent Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party, and it was quoted as...

Earlier today the BBC posted a breaking news story about a plane crash in Portugal which authorites later confirmed as fake news. Still the story quickly spread on other websites. Shame that BBC news editors don't double check their stories before posting. :unreal: A few hours later they...

Dozens of young guys from the UK drown or die in accidents in Bulgaria's most popular Black Sea resort Sunny Beach. There is no morgue in Sunny Beach so all corpses are taken to nearby Burgas which has one of the busiest morgues in Bulgaria. In July and August the morgue is busy 24/7 and...

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Al-Shabaab fighters believe they have a duty to Allah and fight a global jihad for single muslim state No religion in history has caused so much senseless violence and war...Islam is once again rearing it's ugly head with the latest terrorist attack in Nairobi led by the Al-Shabaab militant...

At the heart of Syria's ongoing civil war is one of the oldest religious divide in history - that between Sunni and Shia Muslims. The USA supports the rebels which are Sunni and Russia supplies weapons to the regime which is Alawite, which is a sub branch of a Shia. If you want to understand...

There are countless BBC blunders videos on YouTube but the ones with the weather forecast are best. :hard lol: Check out this clip from today's BBC breakfast forecast. The guys doing the weather map must have been really sleepy.

A necro mother whose son died 18 years ago pickled him in alcohol and stashed his corpse in the basement where she has cared for him ever since. Tsiuri Kvaratskhelia keeps dead 22-year-old Joni Bakaradze in a wooden coffin beneath the family home in Georgia. Joni croaked in 1995 at 222 and...

A playground full of children in northern Syria has been bombed by a fighter jet with a napalm-like substance, according to disturbing new footage captured by the BBC Panorama programme. Eye witnesses described how a jet had passed the school in Aleppo numerous times, as if it searching for...

The Pentagon is making the initial preparations for a cruise missile attack on Syrian government forces but Obama has the final word. The UK and other nations are also preparing for war. Should the USA strike Syria? Please vote.

Chemical weapons attacks have killed hundreds on the outskirts of Damascus, Syrian opposition activists say. Rockets with toxic agents were launched at the suburbs of the Ghouta region early on Wednesday as part of a major bombardment on rebel forces, they say...

A surge of electrical activity in the brain could be responsible for the vivid experiences described by near-death survivors, scientists report. A study carried out on dying rats found high levels of brainwaves at the point of the animals' demise. US researchers said that...

More British soldiers and veterans took their own lives in 2012 than died fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan over the same period. BBC Panorama learned that 21 serving soldiers killed themselves last year, along with 29 veterans. The Afghanistan death toll was 44, of...

More than 12 people have been killed in a train crash at Bretigny-sur-Orge, south of the French capital Paris. The intercity train had just left Paris and was heading towards Limoges when it derailed, crashing into a station platform at about 17:00 (16:00 GMT). Passengers were said to be...

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A Japanese man recognised as the world's oldest living person, and the oldest man recorded in history, has died aged 116. Jiroemon Kimura passed from natural causes on Wednesday in a hospital in Kyotango, Kyoto. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22851848

Videos have been posted online showing young Syrian dudes twitching, hallucinating and choking on white froth after a nerve gas attack in Aleppo. A UN commission has confirmed the use of sarin gas in Syria, an extremely potent chemical nerve agent. Various samples taken from unspecified...

Saudi Arabia has executed five Yemenis convicted of murder and committing a series of robberies. Their bodies were left hanging in public following the execution in the south-western town of Jizan, near the Yemen border. READ MORE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22609051 A local...

Several beheading videos were posted on facebook last week facebook has said it will delete videos of people being decapitated which had been spread on its site. The social network had previously refused to ban the clips. It had said people had a right to depict the "world in which we live"...