Archive for April 2023

A Brazilian mayor sparked massive controversy earlier this month after legally marrying a 16-year-old girl and then appointing her mother Secretary of Culture and Tourism. 65-year-old Hissam Hussein Dehaini, the mayor of Araucária City, in southern Brazil, recently married a girl 49 years his junior the day after she turned 16, which is the legal…

After meeting as adults, two step-brothers who shared the same father hid their romance from the world for nine years. Now they’re making their relationship public so they can get legally married. Ana Parra was 20 years old when she met her step-brother Daniel (17) for the first time. Her mother had told her that…

A Peru comic book fan’s collection of 1,548 pieces of memorabilia related to Marvel hero Iron Man earned him a Guinness World Records title.

The decision was applauded by disability rights groups but condemned by the few surviving performers.

A peacock that escaped from New York’s Bronx Zoo is safely back at the facility after spending the night perched in a tree.

A Missouri man won a $1 million prize from a Powerball drawing — but it was three months before he found out about his good luck.

Some of the most popular archaeological sites, such as the Acropolis, will still remain pet-free, as will ancient theaters, temples, graves and monuments with mosaic floors.

A Virginia elementary school shared video of a mother duck parading her ducklings through school’s hallways after the babies hatched in a courtyard.

A Spanish court ruled that an electrical company was wrong to fire one of its electricians for allegedly drinking more than three liters of beer on the job because it couldn’t prove he was drunk. Drinking alcohol during work hours is usually frowned upon and can constitute grounds for dismissal, but according to a high…

Residents of a Chicago suburb were in for a surprise when a steer escaped during a high school senior prank gone wrong and went running through the town.