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Toddler is hospitalised with the ‘worst chickenpox ever seen’ after GP receptionist told his mother he didn’t need to see a doctor
Jasper Allen, two (left), from Cambridgeshire, developed chickenpox in July and his mother Sarah, 36, said she phoned the GP practice for an appointment. But she claims the receptionist told her ‘every mother thinks their child has bad chickenpox’ and that seeing a doctor wouldn’t be necessary. A few days later, he was hospitalised after his chickenpox sores became severely infected – and doctors said it was the worst case they had ever seen (top and bottom centre and right). Now, she is calling a vaccination against the disease to be made free for all on the NHS.
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Body of Russian pilot is dragged through the dirt and stamped on after helicopter is shot down by Syrian rebels – but why does ID card found in wreckage show a blonde woman?
A Russian military helicopter has been shot down by rebels in Syria killing all five people on board, it has been revealed.
The aircraft, carrying three crew and two officers, crashed down in the Idlib province in north western Syria on its way home to a Russian airbase.
Gruesome pictures have since emerged showing what is believed to be the body of a Russian pilot being dragged through the dirt and loaded on to a truck.
It comes as mystery surrounded the discovery in the wreckage of an identification card showing a picture of a blonde woman.
The image was found along with a haul of personal belongings of those inside, including Russian drivers’ licences, passports and insurance cards, as well as Orthodox Christian icons.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said the helicopter was returning to the its main air base in the western province of Latakia following a delivery of humanitarian aid in war-torn Aleppo.
Two activist groups – the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Observatory and the Local Coordination Committees – say rebels shot down the Mi-8.
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‘You psychopath’: Shocking footage captures the moment a 4×4 driver stops at a roundabout to ATTACK a motorcyclist before the fight spills into the busy road
This is the shocking moment a man abandons his 4×4 at a junction and launches a verbal and physical attack on a motorcyclist.
It is not clear what caused the ruckus as the two vehicles approached the Westfield roundabout in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, prior to the incident.
The video shows the man in the green car suddenly swearing at the biker, who captures the entire incident on his helmet-camera.
He shouts: ‘You’re a f****** b******,’ before exiting his vehicle and walking around to confront the motorcyclist.
The biker is heard swearing back as the 4×4 driver says: ‘Come on then,’ and suddenly begins shoving him.
The driver then continues to push the motorcyclist until he falls onto the ground with his bike.
This prompts other shocked motorists to blow their horns in an attempt to break the fight up, which at this point is taking place on the grass verge.
The driver then heads back to his car, which is blocking the busy junction, but the biker chases after him and confronts him once more.
He can be heard calling the man a ‘psychopath’ as the pair start to grapple.
It is difficult to see what is happening as the men continue to tussle in the middle of the road – attacking each other both verbally and physically.
Eventually the scuffle is broken up when other motorists leave their vehicles and run over to stop the men fighting.
One man advises the biker to ‘calm down and wait until he goes away.’
He responds by saying: ‘He’s trying to punch somebody with a helmet on.’
Another motorist then hands the biker his helmet visor, which appears to have come off in the fight.
The video concludes with a woman stating that the incident had been reported to the police as the biker walks around on the spot in apparent shock.
A police Scotland spokesman said: ‘We received a report of a road rage incident that happened on Friday 29 July on Stadium Way, Falkirk.’
‘Officers are following a positive line of enquiry.’
Sickening moment ISIS barbarians chop off a thief’s hand with a meat cleaver in front of a baying crowd
This is the sickening moment ISIS thugs maimed a ‘thief’ for life by chopping off his hand with a cleaver while a baying crowd watched on.
The man was blindfolded and dragged to a square in the terror group’s stronghold of Raqqa in Syria before being forced in to a seat while his arm was held to a wooden table.
Gruesome pictures show a balaclava-wearing jihadi positioning a cleaver on the man’s wrist and preparing to strike down on the weapon with a large metal bar.
Seconds later, another man rushes in to bandage the alleged thief’s arm. A large crowd had gathered to watch the brutal punishment.
It is not the first time ISIS have carried out a public amputations. Similar pictures emerged of a man having his hand chopped off in early June in another Syrian city.
In February, a man had his hand hacked off in Raqqa in what was described as the ‘implementation of the punishment of a thief from Raqqa city’.
Cutting off the right hand as a punishment for theft is a strict interpretation of Sharia law, carried out by ISIS, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
It comes as ISIS, losing territory and on the retreat in Iraq and Syria, claimed credit for a surge in global attacks this summer, most of them in France and Germany.
The wave of attacks followed a call to strike against the West during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in June and July, in an apparent shift in strategy by the jihadist group, which has been hammered by two years of U.S.-led coalition air strikes and ground advances by local forces.
Instead of urging supporters to travel to its self-proclaimed caliphate, it encouraged them to act locally using any means available.
‘If the tyrants close the door of migration in your faces, then open the door of jihad in theirs and turn their actions against them,’ said an audio clip purportedly from spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, referring to Western governments’ efforts to keep foreign fighters from travelling to the join the group.
In the last 18 months, the group has been pushed off a quarter of the lands it seized in Iraq and Syria in 2014, research firm IHS said this month; other estimates put losses closer to half.
Iraqi authorities have pledged to retake Mosul – the largest city still under the group’s control – later this year, but the militants will likely maintain safe havens in remote desert areas and revert to more traditional insurgent techniques.
Islamic State’s defeat is a longer way off in Syria, and it has established footholds in pockets of lawlessness or instability from Libya to Afghanistan to the Philippines.
Gisele Bundchen ‘will be ROBBED’ during Olympics opening ceremony in bizarre stunt showing real life in Rio de Janeiro, rehearsal witnesses reveal
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen will be ROBBED during a scene in the Olympics opening ceremony in a brutally honest reflection on life in Rio de Janeiro, it was reported today. Details of the unexpected twist, which will be watched by an estimated 900 million viewers on Friday night, was revealed last night on social networking sites by spectators of a full dress rehearsal yesterday. Three thousand specially invited guests attended the test run of the spectacular inside Rio’s famous Maracana stadium, but were asked to ‘save the surprise’ by not taking photos or revealing details of the show. British actress Judi Dench will also read a poem as part of the show.
‘He’s fought harder than I will ever have to’: Eight-year-old boy with a rare genetic condition is made an honorary Marine – like his proud dad – just A DAY before he died
An eight-year-old boy with a rare genetic disease has died just a day after he was made an honorary US Marine in a ceremony (main) on Saturday in San Diego County. Wyatt Gillette (pictured), from Orange County in California, had Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome Type 1, which caused him to have multiple medical conditions and he suffered from kidney failure since mid-June . His Marine drill instructor father, Jeremiah, 29, (bottom right) hoped that his son could be made an honorary member of his corp and a petition was set up among fellow soldiers while Wyatt was in hospital.
Woman with mental illness is locked in a filthy underground CAGE by her own family after repeated treatments failed
A woman (pictured) suffering from a severe mental illness has been found locked in a cellar by the police. The 45-year-old from Xixia, in China’s Sichuan province, has been in and out of hospital for her condition since 2012. The family of the woman, surnamed Peng, said they had no other choice but to lock her in the cellar after previous treatments had failed.
Peng is classed as severely mentally disabled by the government according to the report.
Her mental illness only developed after a car accident according to news.com.au.
She has visited four psychiatric hospitals since 2012 and following several treatments, her condition seemed to improve.
According to reports, once she returned home, her condition suddenly worsened.
She reportedly smashed up cars and broke her neighbours’ windows, forcing her family to lock her in the stairwell of the building’s first floor.
They say they were concerned for the safety of fellow villagers.
On July 28, a resident in the area took pictures of the woman in the cellar and posted them to social media, hoping to help find a solution to her situation.
Peng was rescued by local police after the photographs emerged online.
Chinese media reports that Peng was taken to hospital by local officials and her mother for further treatment.
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The shocking moment a moneylender is shot dead in broad daylight by two hitmen on a Malaysian motorway
This is the shocking moment that a local moneylender was massacred in the middle of a busy main road in his car by two gunmen travelling on scooters.
The brutal attack happened in the suburb of Setapak in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur.
Four men on two scooters pull up beside a stationary car and fire a flurry of bullets through the window, hitting the man in the head, leg and torso.
It was around 3:30pm when the moneylender, who has not been named, was driving his car down a busy three-lane road in the city and stopped at a traffic light.
The four men on two scooters pulled up beside the stationery car and two gunmen jumped off.
Images show how the men stand either side at the front of the car and empty their guns into the driver from the side windows, who is a sitting duck with nowhere to go.
They shoot him repeatedly, clearly to make sure the job is done properly, before jumping back on their scooters and driving off.
Meanwhile the other cars remain at a standstill in the traffic, having witnessed the whole scene.
Senior Chief Assistant Commander of the city, Rusdi Mohd Isa, spoke about the incident at a press conference at the Setapak police station.
He said: ‘They approached the victim’s car as he was stopped at a traffic light.
‘One shooter went left and the other right then they both opened fire.’
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Whipped in public just for daring to go on a date: Unmarried couples are flogged for violating Sharia law in Indonesia
This is the moment three young couples were savagely whipped in public – after they violated Sharia law by going on dates.
Harrowing pictures show one woman crying out as she is repeatedly lashed with a cane at Al Furqon Mosque in the city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
Separate images show a man standing as he received the same brutal punishment.
In total, three Acehnese couples were sentenced to receive public lashes for violating Sharia law in a brutal new crackdown in the region.
Under the law men and women, who are not spouses, are not allowed to get too close due to the ‘khalwat’ offence – and punishment is by public caning.
Gruesome footage shows a 14ft python swallowing an ENTIRE goat before regurgitating the animal in a bid to escape
This gruesome footage shows a 14 foot python feasting on a goat after it sneaked up on the creature and swallowed it whole.
Villagers in Anxi county in the Fujian Province of China were baffled when their livestock kept going missing until one man made a stomach-churning discovery.
He spotted the giant python, which weighs 66lbs, swallowing the goat and quickly grabbed his camera to film it consuming the animal.
The video shows the snake bloated to an astonishing level after eating the goat, which weighed 22lbs more than the predator.
A snake handler was also called to the area to examine the predator.
He explained that the snake was unable to move due to the sheer size of its meal and was required to regurgitate the goat while attempting to escape.
After restraining the beast with the help of the police officers, the snake handle was able to place it in a bag and take it to a zoo for preservation.
Later in the video, the snake is seen being weighed and measured by a group of men.
They each stretch out its body while holding measuring tape above it before transferring the python to a bag in order to weigh it.
The large predator was later taken to a snake farm, where it will be unable to steal anymore unsuspecting livestock.
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