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- The Independent
Owner of Vietnam’s ‘foreigners only’ restaurant charged with facilitating prostitution
Owner admits to acting as intermediary between women staff and foreign clients
- People
Inside Case of Woman Who Killed Stepdad After Finding Nude Photos of Herself: 'Violating, Gut-Wrenching Feeling'
Jade Janks was convicted of the 2020 murder of Thomas Merriman
- BBC
The truth behind your $12 dress: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling Shein's success
Workers making clothes for the fast fashion giant tell the BBC they labour for up to 75 hours a week.
- Evening Standard
Prisoner who had sex with female guard in cell is violently attacked while holding baby in family visit
Linton Weirich was filmed having sex with a prison guard in a viral video
- BuzzFeed
Former Inmates Are Sharing Things About Prison That Most People Don’t Know, And I’m Shocked I Didn’t Know Any Of This
"Don't ask, don't tell. The guy running around talking about how he's in for 'a body' is a liar. He's definitely a deflecting sex offender."
- The Independent
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry ‘disaster tourists’ after photo with LA wildfire victims, claims star
‘Meghan Markle and Harry are no better than ambulance chasers,’ said ‘Family Ties’ star
- People
Bald Puppy Found Covered with Writing at Homeless Encampment Starts 'Journey to Recovery' with New Family
Hungry Tailz Rescue, a nonprofit animal rescue organization in Stockton, Calif., brought Naya to the vet and connected her with a foster family
- CNN
Protests turn violent in China after student falls to his death
Violent protests have erupted in China after the death of a teenage boy sparked accusations of a cover-up by authorities, videos from the northwestern region of Shaanxi have shown.
- BBC
Dalit woman in India alleges rape by 64 men over five years
Police say that the woman was alleged sexually abused and gangraped when she was a minor.
- Cinema Online
Actor Wang Xing returns to China following Thai-Myanmar border rescue
The actor shared the good news on social media and thank everybody who helped
- The Independent
California governor accuses Musk of ‘encouraging looting’ with misleading LA fires claim
Factually incorrect posts shared by Elon Musk on his social media site claim California governor Gavin Newsom decriminalised looting
- The Telegraph
Calls for Jack the Ripper inquest after DNA breakthrough
Relatives of Jack the Ripper’s victims are calling for a fresh inquest after DNA evidence emerged that may finally identify the killer.
- The Guardian
‘Would love to see her faked’: the dark world of sexual deepfakes – and the women fighting back
The government has promised a crackdown on synthetic image abuse – but campaigners warn it doesn’t go far enough
- KameraOne
Spa day! Monkeys take a load off in China's hot springs
A video from late December last year captured the curious moment local monkeys were seen relaxing in a hot spring in the icy Yuntai Mountains in Jiaozuo, Henan, China. The animals huddled together to escape the cold.
- Reuters
How one California man tried saving his block from wildfire
Despite it all, Tristin Perez never left his Altadena home during the deadly Eaton fire. A police officer told him and his neighbors to evacuate early on Wednesday morning as the fire raced down the hillside above them. Instead, Perez insisted on trying to save his property and his neighbors’ homes along El Molino Avenue.
- Associated Press
A dad and daughter help evacuees learn whether their homes survived the California wildfires
As the fire roared down a hillside toward their Altadena home, Vanessa Prata and her parents hurried to pack their car. Instead, the Pratas have remained in their family home of 27 years, which is somehow still standing amid widespread devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires, even as homes just over a block away burned. The fires raging around Los Angeles have consumed an area larger than San Francisco.
- PA Media: UK News
Man and woman arrested after 18-year-old dies in crash
Emergency services found a vehicle had entered a water treatment facility and was partly submerged in a pit of water, police said.
- The Independent
Senior woman plied kids with booze as they shoveled snow before attempted sexual assault, cops say
‘The juveniles were speaking in a nonsensical way exclaiming that a lady had just got them drunk and touched them’ said Pittsburgh Police
- The Daily Beast
Trump’s Ex-Con Lawyer Green With Envy Over Hush Money Ruling
President-elect Donald Trump’s former lawyer was so taken aback by the “unconditional discharge” ruling in his former boss’ hush money trial that he turned to ChatGPT for legal help. Speaking with MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes on Friday night, Michael Cohen told the show’s host that he’d been unable to recall anyone else in history who’d ever been found so guilty, and yet faced so few consequences for their actions. Last year, Trump was convicted on 34 charges related to his efforts to cover u