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The psycho seagulls and super rats feeding off Birmingham's giant mountains of rubbish may be spreading disease as they team up in a city assault. The Midlands city has been swamped with rubbish since binmen went on an all-out strike on March 11. There is no end in sight for the growing refuse sack mounds after dustmen "overwhelmingly" rejected a strike-ending deal with Birmingham City Council on Tuesday. With the trash building for more than five weeks, the rats and seagulls feasting on the rubbish have become supersized. But the dangers these vermin pose to humans is not limited to physical threats, they are also known to spread disease through urine and bacteria. The most dangerous...

A 33-year-old Japanese man has been raising eyebrows because of his radical change in appearance after making drastic lifestyle changes and turning to cosmetic enhancements. Aki, who goes by @Aki_fit on X (Twitter), was recently featured on a popular show by Japanese online television network ABEMA, where he spoke about the shocking physical transformation that made him somewhat of an anti-aging guru on social media. The 33-year-old man said that everything started 10 years ago, after his boss at the time ridiculed him for looking much older than his age and going bald. His girlfriend broke up with him soon after that, so he was in a real dark place, but instead of wallowing in...

Justine Musk, Elon Musk's first wife and the mother of his five children, has a lot to say about her life with the man who's now one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the world. From their early days in college to the ups and downs of their relationship, she doesn't hold back in a talk titled "Visionaries are People Who Can See in the Dark" at the TEDxUIUC conference. "I met him when I was 18. He was 19," she says. They crossed paths in college, where Elon was already showing the determination he's now known for. "He would call me up and ask me out, and I would say no. And it went on like this until we ended up living together." They started small, sharing an apartment with three...

Taylor Swift is giving her Rhode Island mansion a major facelift — in hopes that this will be her main family home with her boyfriend Travis Kelce, The Post has learned. The “The Last Great American Dynasty” singer is sinking $1.7 million into a massive renovation of the $17 million Watch Hill estate, according to building permits and zoning certificates. Providence Journal was the first to report on the renovation.     (Taylor Swift is planning a $1.7 million renovation of her $17 million Rhode Island mansion in Watch Hill in hopes of making it her main home base with Travis Kelce when they start a family.Richard Beetham / SplashNews.com)   (A...

တိုက်ဂါးဝုဒ်သည် ဒေါ်နယ်ထရမ့်ဂျူနီယာ (အမေရိကန်သမ္မတ ဒေါ်နယ်ထရမ့်၏ သားကြီး) ၏ ဇနီးဟောင်းဖြစ်သူ ဗနက်ဆာ ထရမ့်နှင့် ချစ်ကြိုက်နေသည်မှာ ကာလကြာရှည်ရှိနေပြီဟူသော သတင်းများ ထွက်ပေါ်လာနေသည်။ သတင်းရင်းမြစ်များ၏ ပြောကြားချက်အရ တိုက်ဂါးဝုဒ်နှင့် ဗနက်ဆာ...

A San Francisco mansion where the late actor Robin Williams raised his children for more than two decades has sold for $18 million. The Italian Renaissance-style villa, built in 1926, is located in the exclusive Sea Cliff neighborhood and spans nearly 11,000 square feet across three stories, Kron4 reported. The property, at 540 El Camino Del Mar, offers panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands and the Pacific Ocean.     (The former couple had purchased the home back in 1991 for $3.1 million.Open Homes)     (Robin Williams at the “Jumanji” premiere in 1995 with his ex-wife Marsha Williams and their children.Ron Galella Collection...

Talk about proud parenting! A Japanese dad is making major headlines after blowing a whopping $700,000 (100 million yen) on ads featuring his young son all over Tokyo’s Adachi district. The kid, lovingly nicknamed “The Landmark Kid”, is now a full-blown neighborhood icon. From footbridges to buses, even convenience stores, Yu-kun’s adorable face is impossible to miss. The boy’s wild, funny, and sometimes downright embarrassing expressions are plastered everywhere. One hilarious ad shows him bawling his eyes out after a street performer startled him. That crying-face photo is now a 6-foot-tall billboard outside a subway station. Locals love him, tourists...

တောင်ကိုရီးယား လူငယ်ပေါ့ပ်အဖွဲ့ဖြစ်သော BTS မှ ကင်တေးယောင် (အနုပညာအမည် V) သည် ကမ္ဘာ့အချောမောဆုံးလူငယ်အဖြစ် မကြာခဏရွေးချယ်ခံရပြီး တောင်ကိုရီးယားတွင်လည်း အချောဆုံးဟု သတ်မှတ်ခံထားရသူ ဖြစ်သည်။ K-pop အကျော်အမော် V သည် ယခုအခါတွင်လည်း...

A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such extraordinary flowering in as many months. The corpse flower, also known by its scientific name amorphophallus titanium, bloomed for the first time in its 15 years at Canberra’s Australian National Botanic Gardens on Saturday and was closing on Monday, staff said. Another flowered briefly in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens in late January, attracting 20,000 admirers. Similar numbers turned out to experience another rancid bloom at the Geelong Botanic Gardens southwest of Melbourne in November.     (A rare flower that smell like decaying...

According to the listing agent, it is now seriously for sale and inviting buyer enquiry from $2.9 million. The village, which is 7km from Kurow and 50km from Oamaru, was built in the 1930s to house workers on the nearby Waitaki Dam. At its peak, more than 2000 people lived in the village. The brick houses were reserved for the managers while old photos show rows and rows of wooden huts for the workers. Those huts were relocated around the region once the dam was automated and now there are just three groups of people residing there – the owner in the main lodge and tenants in the only two cottages which have been renovated.   (Two of the eight three-bedroom cottages have...