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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...

Now, imagine actually having your hands on a winning ticket — one worth $2.5 million — only to lose it. Mildred Simoneriluto, of Monroeville, Pa., has been trying to find the ticket she accidentally left in the pocket of a jacket she donated, to no avail. Simoneriluto purchased the lottery ticket in May 2024 at a grocery store in nearby Murrysville and realized two weeks later that she had the winning numbers to a $2.5 million jackpot — but couldn’t find it. The 76-year-old retraced her steps and realized it was in the pocket of a jacket she had donated — along with other clothing — to Vietnam Veterans of America which, according WTAE, hands out its...

A well-respected family in the UK was recently awarded compensation of $100,000 by a restaurant that had publicly accused them of leaving without settling the bill. In July of last year, Peter and Ann McGirr, along with their children Peter Jr and Carol, visited The Horse & Jockey Inn in the Peak District, England. It was a pretty uneventful affair; the family ordered ribeye and gammon steaks and washed them down with ales and lagers before leaving for their home in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Only shortly after their departure, The Horse & Jockey Facebook page posted a video of the McGirrs’ allegedly leaving the establishment without paying the £150 ($200) bill. The...

ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး အစိုးရအဖွဲ့၏ ကြီးကြပ်မှုဖြင့် ရိုးမရိပ်သာ တန်ဖိုးနည်းအိမ်ရာမှ အခန်းများ ရောင်းချပေးရန် စီစဉ်လျက်ရှိရာ အိမ်ခန်းဝယ်ယူရန် တင်ပြထားသော လျှောက်လွှာများကို အိမ်ရာရောင်းချရေး ကော်မတီက စိစစ်ခဲ့သည်။ ထိုသို့ စိစစ်ရာတွင်...

In a shocking incident, three German children living in Spain were rescued from a Covid lockdown ‘house of horrors’ after being forced for years by their parents to stay there even after pandemic restrictions were relaxed. Yes! You read that right. As per The New York Post, citing a local outlet El Comercio, the siblings—8-year-old twins and a 10-year-old—were eventually evacuated from the home in Oviedo, Spain’s northwest, on Monday by the officials after being locked inside since 2021. (Two children are led out of the home after being locked inside for years.)   (Inside the home where the children were kept for years.) The official said,...

A viral video shows a dramatic robbery near Kokhraj police station in Kaushambi district, Uttar Pradesh, where two miscreants snatched money bags from a trader on a bus. During their escape, one bag fell onto the highway, scattering cash and triggering a chaotic scramble among passersby and dhaba visitors to grab the loose notes. (The bags contained several lakhs of rupees, but only Rs 4–5 lakh could be recovered after the mob looted the scattered cash. (X/@moliticsindia) The incident took place around 9:30 pm when a luxury bus travelling from Varanasi to Delhi made a brief stop at Jaiswal Dhaba. Bhavesh, a cumin trader from Gujarat’s Patan district, was targeted by the...

Ana de Armas has traded in Venice Beach for Vermont. The actress reportedly decided to flee the high-profile Los Angeles lifestyle after being besieged by paparazzi during her brief relationship with "Justice League" star Ben Affleck from 2020 to 2021. She reportedly had lived in Venice Beach, CA, for about seven years before moving in with Affleck in his Pacific Palisades pad. The two met while filming the thriller "Deep Water," and they went on to date for nearly a year after that, subjecting themselves to the harsh glare of publicity. (Ana de Armas has traded in Venice Beach for Vermont.Getty Images) She left Los Angeles after their relationship ended in January 2021 and chose a...

A young man in China who quit his master’s degree studies at the esteemed Fudan University in Shanghai to set up a food stall has captivated mainland social media. Before making his unconventional decision, Fei Yu, 24, was on the road to becoming an elite student, Jiupai News reported. Despite coming from a poor family in Sichuan province, southwestern China, Fei studied hard to get into Sichuan University, also a top institution in China, majoring in public health. Upon graduation in the summer of 2022, he was admitted to the graduate school of Fudan University. He did not have to take an entrance test since his scores were ranked first in his grade during his five-year...

A 16-year-old model living In Mumbai's slums dreams of making enough money to buy her family a house, but says that 'such a happy person' in spite of her circumstances. Maleesha Kharwa features in a new BBC documentary Streets of Gold: Mumbai where she explains that she hopes to become a supermodel so that she can move out of the illegal squatters settlement in Bandra, where she lives with her father, brother and sister. The so-called 'Princess from the slums' was discovered in 2020 by Hollywood actor Robert Hoffman after a chance meeting while he visited India. The Step Up actor then set up an Instagram account for her, where she now has more than 400,000, followers, and started a...

A father, they say, is a daughter’s first hero. While it may sound cheesy, it doesn’t make it any less true for Jeline Ang, the founder of The Music Scientist, whose father’s actions spoke oh, so much louder than words. Ang Poh Thong, now 71, once had his own Heavy Machinery Rental Company, building it from the ground up through grit, determination, and sheer force of will, paving the way for Jeline and her two siblings. A decade ago, however, he retired. At the age of 60, when he was suffering from poor health, he sold his company. Then, “my dad took a leap of faith—not for himself, but for me,” she explained, adding that he invested S$1 million in...