A British engineer is suing his former boss at a Hong Kong company for discrimination after he was allegedly called a 'gweilo', which is a pejorative term for Westerners meaning 'ghost man'. The British engineer has been named as Francis William Hayden and he is seeking damages and an apology…
A 37-year-old married father of three has been killed after being sucked into a mincemeat machine that was used for making hamburgers, which he was repairing at a Brazilian slaughterhouse. Rodrigo Roa Alvarez died when he was sucked into the device at the JBS Seara Alimentos abattoir in the municipality…
An Iraqi court has sentenced an Australian engineer - whose wife and three children are Irish citizens - to five years in prison after the company that employs him got into a row with local government officials over payments. Sydney native Robert "Rob" Pether, aged 46, was arrested in the…
A German engineer has reportedly butchered his mother with a knife so violently that he left blood everywhere when she turned up at his house and discovered his murdered girlfriend in the bath. The suspected killer, identified only as Florian E., because of local privacy laws, is accused of killing…
This Colombian engineer and teacher has broken the Guinness World Record for the largest online maths class with over 213,000 students. Julio Alberto Rios, 47, hosted the class called ‘Maths applied to other subjects’ on 7th December. Rios is known as ‘Julioprofe’ on his YouTube channel which he created in…