In an apparent bid to reduce the Ethiopian birth rate, Ethiopian women have told RT that Israeli medics forced them to take the controversial Depo-Provera birth control vaccination without their consent.Apparently they failed to explain the severe side effects of the drug, which can leave a woman unable to become pregnant for up to two years.The birth control vaccination was reportedly a requireme

London - A new database lets Britons search for uncomfortable information - whether their ancestors owned slaves.Researchers at University College London have compiled a searchable listing of thousands of people who received compensation for loss of their "possessions" when slave ownership was outlawed by Britain in 1833.About 46 000 people were paid a total of £20m - the equivalent of 40% of all

Peter Bailey, 27, has discovered a creature with "the face of a horse, the body of a pig and the claws of a bear" has washed up dead on a South Wales beach.Bailey took photos of the animal and passed them to council chiefs in Tenby.A spokesman for Pembrokeshire council said he believed from the pictures that it was a dog that had become bloated after a long time in the water.But Peter insists the

RUSTENBURG - A Marikana mine worker in South Africa has described how he was shot, beaten and interrogated by police before begging them to end his life.Mzoxolo Magidiwana was testifying on Tuesday February 26 at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry about how he managed to survive on the day 34 miners were killed outside the Lonmin platinum mine in August 2012.Magidiwana, who is still using crutches

An alleged thief, only known as Jonathan, was beaten to a pulp by angry residents at Browns Farm in Phillipi, Cape Town.He and two friends were apparently caught stealing a woman’s cellphone. His friends ran away from the angry crowd. Jonathan lay in the sun for hours as the public called for him to be set alight.However he narrowly escaped death after an ambulance came and took him to hospital

A 27-year-old woman who is a rape victim attempted suicide in the courtroom of Gujarat high court, India on Tuesday by consuming pesticide.The woman was rushed to the Sola Civil Hospital, where her condition is said to be critical, the "Times of India" reported today.According to Times of India its not the first time this year for a rape victim to attempt suicide in a courtroom in the country.In t

News UpdateBashid McLean, 23, who allegedly murdered and dismembered his mother's body and dumped it in the trash in various locations around the Bronx has confessed to the gruesome crime.The schizophrenic South Bronx man implicated himself in the gruesome death after investigators recovered a saw inside the apartment where he lived with victim Tanya Byrd and his 7-year-old brother, Nasyr.Cops al

South Africa - Johannes Kana, 21, one of the men accused of killing and raping Anene Booysen 17, confessed to murdering the Bredasdorp teenager, a police officer said in court on Tuesday.Booysen was raped, mutilated and murdered on 2 February.Kana’s co-accused Jonathan Davids, 22, told the court he was not guilty of the brutal crime.The court also heard on Tuesday that Davids was convicted of th

Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change party has said that violence against its supporters is increasing as political tensions rise before upcoming elections.The MDC party said an arson attack on the home of an election candidate in eastern Zimbabwe killed the politician's 12-year-old son. The attack was one of 120 incidents of violence recorded so far this year, said Finance Minister Tendai B

One of Britain’s most prominent black judges has been arrested over claims that she lied about her involvement in leaking information on Chris Huhne to the Press, it was revealed yesterday.Constance Briscoe, 55, was questioned over allegations that she lied to police during the investigation into whether former Cabinet minister Huhne asked his then wife Vicky Pryce to take his speeding points.Mi

Elizabeth Jones, 22, a compulsive liar has been jailed for 16 months after falsely claiming she had been raped 11 times in nine years.She made her first fabricated allegation to police in 2004 when she was aged just 13, Southampton Crown Court was told.Police said that the young woman had accused at least one individual just because she did not like them anymore, putting innocent men through a 'te

University of North Carolina student, US, Landen Gambill complained to the student-run Honor Court that her ex had raped her.However Gambill now faces expulsion for creating an “intimidating environment” for her ex-boyfriend and feels it is retaliation for her going public and the university’s way of covering up sexual violence on the campus."Certain administrators have decided to continue t

A bag stuffed with human body parts was discovered on a Bronx street around 5 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013.The butchered body was discovered about 5 a.m. Tuesday by a dog walker who spied a severed leg poking from a pile of garbage in the South Bronx.The bag was left among a heap of other garbage bags and trashed furniture.Cops responded to the report of the found leg and quickly located three

The trial of Gilberto Valle, 28, dubbed by the New York media as the "Cannibal Cop," moved into its second day, with prosecutors seeking to put human faces on potential victims. But some of the women who took the stand minimized the threat.Valle is accused of conspiring to kidnap women and of using information from a law enforcement database to build a list of 100 women who the prosecution says we

Footage showing man who got locked out of his room stark naked has gone viral with more than 600,000 views online.The man’s unfortunate incident happened after he put his dirty dishes outside his room.The footage shows the guest taking a tray out of his room wearing no clothes and the door shuts behind him.After briefly standing outside his room considering his somewhat limited options, he make