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Four-Year-Old Swipes Cash Straight From Under ATM User's Nose

Four-year-old snatches $150 from cash machine and fights the man it belongs to

CCTV footage recorded at a bank branch in Valpraiso, Chile, on November 20 shows light-fingered rugrat snatching 97,000 pesos, or $150, from under the nose of a man using an ATM.

Nov 24, 2017

By Josh Robbins

Argentine military submarine ARA San Juan

All 44 crew members of missing submarine ARA San Juan feared dead after 'explosion'

The 44 crew members of ARA San Juan are feared dead after reports that the missing Argentine submarine exploded.

Nov 24, 2017

By Brendan Cole

Watch 'World's fattest man' undergo surgery to reduce 95 stone weight

Mexican Juan Pedro Franco completes one hour procedure after successful gastric bypass surgery earlier in the year.

Nov 23, 2017

By Ewan Palmer

'Unusual sound' could provide clue to locate missing Argentine submarine

Navy declined to speculate whether "hydro-acoustic anomaly" might have been an explosion, saying experts did not know what it was.

Nov 23, 2017

By Associated Press

'Help me, Jesus, help me!' Shark attack survivor recalls terrifying day her arm was bitten off

Tiffany Johnson and her husband JJ were snorkelling off Nassau in the Bahamas when the terrifying shark attack took place. She told a church congregation about what happened.

Nov 22, 2017

By Charlotte Tobitt

Rescue efforts in 'critical phase' as crew of missing Argentine submarine to run out of oxygen soon

The search has been expanded to cover an ocean area "two times the size of Buenos Aires", a Navy spokesperson informed.

Nov 22, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Argentina's missing submarine: Undersea noise was not distress signal from crew, navy says

The Argentine navy has not yet ruled out any hypothesis but said that there might have been an electrical problem which may have cut off the vessel's communications.

Nov 21, 2017

By Karen Noronha

Hopes raised for Argentina's missing submarine after noises heard

Argentina's navy is investigating a noise thought to emanate from the missing ARA San Juan submarine that has 44 crew members on board.

Nov 20, 2017

By Brendan Cole

Argentina

Insane CCTV shows cop kill two robbers in a gunfight while holding his toddler

Military Police Sergeant Rafael Souza was shopping with his wife and young son near Jundiai, in the Sao Paulo region, when two armed robbers intruded.

Nov 20, 2017

By Josh Robbins

Brazil

Fears grow for lost Agentina submarine San Juan as search hampered by South Atlantic storms

Submarine was returning from a routine mission to Ushuaia near the southernmost tip of South America to its base at Mar del Plata, around 400km south of Buenos Aires.

Nov 20, 2017

By Ludovica Iaccino

Argentina

Hopes raised after missing submarine ARA San Juan with 44 on board 'sends distress signals'

Argentina's authorities say they have received some blips of hope from the missing submarine ARA San Juan which has 44 people on board.

Nov 19, 2017

By Brendan Cole

Argentina

Argentina submarine with at least 44 crew members on board goes missing

Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said it has been two days since ARA San Juan provided its last location.

Nov 18, 2017

By Divya Kishore

What is causing whales from the deep sea to beach themselves?

Beaching or cetacean stranding occurs when aquatic mammals strand themselves on land, usually on a beach.

Nov 16, 2017

By Karen Noronha

Brazil

Peacock makes daring escape attempt from Calgary Zoo but gets eaten by lion instead

A peacock at Calgary Zoo in Canada died after being eaten by a lion. It flew away when zookeepers were transferring the peacocks to their cold-weather enclosure.

Nov 16, 2017

By Charlotte Tobitt