Cameroon's high rate of teenage pregnancy is being blamed for driving mothers to use harmful traditions on their daughters -- including the unspeakable practice of breast ironing. Some mothers "iron" their daughters' breasts with a hot pestle to make them less desirable to men. It's a practice that's meant to stop them getting pregnant at a young age,...
An 82-year-old man choked to death last Tuesday after he drank a glass of milk and his dentures slipped down into his throat.Mr Zhang Qishan's 75-year-old widow told Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao that she saw him drink half a glass of milk before he suddenly started to make choking sounds and frantically moving his arms."I knew he had...
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Chinese university beauty pageant organizers mandate contestants' nips be at least 7.8 inches apart
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A Chinese beauty contest requiring candidates to have nips spaced at least 20 centimetres (7.8 inches) apart sparked a storm of criticism on the Internet on Friday."Why more than 20 centimetres? I honestly don't know who came up with these figures," said a user on Weibo, China's version of Twitter."How can beauty standards include breast distance? Do they...
LONDON: An Egyptian-born bodybuilder's 31-inch biceps have been crowned the biggest in the world, the Daily Mail reported.Moustafa Ismail, 24, has spent 10 years pumping iron twice a day and his upper arms now have the same circumference as a grown man's waist." Big Mo" eats as much as 3 lbs of chicken, 1 pound of steak or...
