A teenager has been arrested after he allegedly broke into his neighbour's house and attempted to murder him with a spanner, claiming that he had "no choice" because his victim was gay and therefore "evil". Ethan Dickerson, 19, of Decatur, a city in Macon County in the Midwestern US state of Illinois, was arrested on Thursday, 17th February. He faces preliminary charges of attempted murder in the first degree, committing a hate crime, aggravated battery, aggravated unlawful restraint and home invasion. He is being held on a USD-1-million bond after ...

This is the viral moment a blue-tongued lizard gets stuck and waggles its little legs in the air while trying to climb over its owner's legs. Reagan Williams, 18, who comes from Far North Queensland in Australia, shared the clip on TikTok for her modest 5,000 followers, where it blew up with 7.4 million views in just three days. In the video, Reagan's blue-tongued skink called Toothless is seen waggling its stumpy little legs in the air while trying to navigate over her legs. The Blue Tongued Skink lizard named ...

Cops in Spain have arrested two people for damaging the Pulpi Geode, which is one of the largest crystal caves ever found and the largest accessible geode in the world. A geode is a nodule of stone whose cavity is lined with crystals or mineral matter. Geodes can range in size from under one centimetre to several meters in length The "incalculable" damage to the unique and protected natural monument was carried out on New Year's Eve, said the Spanish Civil Guard in a press release on Sunday, 20th February, ...

A husband who bought a lottery ticket and scratched it to discover that it had landed him a cool USD 10 million in winnings then gifted it to his wife on Valentine's Day instead of pocketing the cash for himself. The woman at first thought it was some sort of joke after he called her up to tell her the good news, playfully accusing him of lying. But it was not a joke, and Maria Chicas, age not reported but who is a stay-at-home mum from the town of Haymarket ...

Australia's most wanted man, a convicted killer who was allegedly hired to assassinate the son of a prominent Melbourne underworld boss at his wedding, has been arrested after managing to evade the long arm of the law for more than a decade. The 12-year manhunt came to an end when Graham Gene Potter, 64, who was wanted since 2010 for conspiracy to murder, was detained in the rural town of Ravenshoe in the north-eastern Australian state of Queensland, the police said today, Monday, 21st February. In the statement, obtained by ...