Author: Alex J

Imagine holding your newborn child, filled with hope and dreams for their future, only to be told a few months later that those dreams will never be realized. That your child has a rare, incurable disease that will progressively strip away their ability to move, talk, and eventually, to live. This was the harrowing reality…

Fabrizio Longo, a seasoned mountain climber and the head of Audi’s Italian division, met a tragic end on September 3, 2024, while attempting to conquer one of Italy’s most treacherous peaks. Longo, aged 62, fell from a staggering height of 10,000 feet while ascending Cima Payer, a peak in the Adamello mountain range, which sits…

A Russian strike against a military educational facility in central Ukraine killed 47 people and injured at least 206 others, according to Ukrainian officials, in one of the deadliest single attacks since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. President Volodymyr Zelensky said preliminary information indicated two ballistic missiles hit the facility in…

Attack is the latest against a female athlete in Kenya, some of which have been fatal A world-champion runner who raced at the Olympics last month is in a critical condition after allegedly being doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend. Rebecca Cheptegei suffered burns to more than 75 per cent of…

Picture this: a 4-year-old boy, wide-eyed with curiosity, wanders through an Israeli museum filled with ancient treasures. His mom looks away for just a second, and then—crash! The sound echoes through the hall. A 3,500-year-old clay jar, an artifact that survived millennia, is now in pieces on the floor. And standing over the shards is…

Imagine getting through life on just 30 minutes of sleep a day. Sounds wild, right? But for Daisuke Hori, it’s just another day in his well-orchestrated life. This Japanese entrepreneur swears by his ultra-short sleeping pattern, claiming it’s the secret to his productivity. Now, before you think he’s some kind of robot, Hori insists that…

On the evening of September 6, 2006, Susan Kuhnhausen, a 51-year-old emergency room nurse, was winding down after a typical workday. She had just visited a hair salon and was looking forward to a quiet evening at home in her Southeast Portland house. What she didn’t know was that her life was about to be…

A Vanishing Act Spring of 2022 was just beginning to bloom in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, when Penni Whiteside, a 51-year-old woman known for her kind nature and quiet demeanor, suddenly vanished. Her disappearance was as mysterious as it was alarming. Friends and neighbors noticed her absence, but in the bustle of everyday life, her…

A beluga whale suspected of having been trained as a spy by Russia has been found dead off the Norwegian coast. The body of the animal – nicknamed Hvaldimir – was found floating off the south-western town of Risavika and taken to the nearest port for examination. The whale was first spotted in Norwegian waters…

You ever feel like your life is a movie? Well, for Jarrett Adams, it’s more like a courtroom drama—one where the plot twists just keep coming, and not in a good way. This guy’s story is the kind of thing that makes you question everything you know about justice, fairness, and how easily things can…