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‘They seem to like hitting women’: Violence and desperation as Afghans try to flee country“The mothers were desperate, they were getting beaten by the Taliban. They shouted, ‘save my baby’ and threw the babies at us, some of the babies fell on the barbed wire. It was awful what happened. By the end of the night there wasn’t one man among us who was not crying,” said the Parachute Regiment officer quietly.
Baby deer rescued from sea by family on fishing trip A family in Dorset who were out on their first ever fishing trip just off of Weymouth harbour, intending to use their rods to catch some mackerel.What they didn't expect to be doing, was using a lasso to catch a shivering baby deer that had got into a spot of bother in the water.
Was James Bond’s legendry Aston Martin DB5 stolen and has it been found in Dubai?THE Aston Martin driven by James Bond vanished almost 25 years ago.After Sean Connery appeared behind the wheel of the DB5 in Goldfinger, it was never seen again. So, what happened to what is arguably the most famous car in the world?No-one knows what happened to the car, now thought to be worth more than £18.2million, but it is widely accepted it was stolen.
Persephone, the robot guide, leads visitors in a Greek cavePersephone is not your ordinary robotPersephone is a tour guide in Greece, but perhaps not the type people are used to.Billed as the world’s first robot tour guide inside a cave, Persephone has been welcoming visitors since mid-July to the Alistrati Cave in northern Greece, 135 kilometers (84 miles) northeast of the city of ThessalonikiThe multilingual robot covers the first 150 meters (roughly 500 feet) of the part of the cave that is open to the public. In the remaining 750 meters (2,400 feet), a human guide takes over.
Village hits back at townie tourists who do not understand rural lifeA Spanish village has hit back at urban tourist who have little to no clue about rural life.After a small number of tourists rang Ribadesella’s town hall to complain about the noise of roosters, donkeys, and to let the authorities know that wandering cows had left a mess behind them, the town hall decided to put up posters around the village warning tourists that country life is noisy and if they cannot handle it, they should leave and holiday somewhere else.
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