An undertaker who organised his own funeral to see who would turn up is facing the fury of his outraged mourners. Veteran funeral director Baltazar Lemos pretended he had died and organised his own service at a chapel in Curitiba, Brazil, on 18th January. Details of the service were announced…
A tourist’s gushing review of a snorkelling company disturbing sea turtles so visitors can get good snaps has landed the firm in hot water with the Malaysian authorities. The as-yet unidentified snorkelling operator is based in the Perhentian Islands within the Malaysian state of Terengganu. The incident was highlighted on…
Credit: CEN Spanish transgender beauty queen Angela Ponce has slammed the organisers of Miss Colombia for releasing their new set of rules which only accepts candidates who were born female. Ponce, 29, made history in 2018 when she became the first openly transgender woman to be crowned Miss Spain. However,…
Credit: CEN A South African primary school has been forced to apologise after students were told to create advertising posters for an imaginary slave auction as a “fun activity”. The Parklands College in South Africa’s legislative capital Cape Town apologised after an outraged mother discovered the assignment which had been…
Conservative Russian parents are furious that their children have been told that Oscar Wilde was accused of being gay in a novel given to the youngsters for summer reading. Local media report parents of the students, aged 12 and 13, in the city of Yaroslavl in the western Russian region…
