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Swedish official accidentally posts pic of genitals

Lars Ohly @OhlyLars via Twitter Lars Ohly quickly removed the picture, but it was saved and went viral. He only wanted to show off his new tattoo. But Instagram followers of Swedish politician Lars Ohly got more than they bargained for when he also accidentally flashed his genitals in the snap. OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images Lars Ohly tweeted after the blunder, ...

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North Korea’s first Instagram videos offer eerie glimpses inside the secretive country

dguttenfelder/via Instagram The Associated Press’ photographer David Guttenfelder and reporter Jean Lee are posting Instagram videos from inside North Korea. Here, a North Korean woman works at a restaurant while a propaganda video plays on the TV screen behind her. Instagramming from North Korea is proving to be just as grim as it sounds. Associated Press photojournalist David Guttenfelder and ...

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Machine turns sweat into drinking water

UNICEF Sweden The UNICEF sweat machine was unveiled at the youth Gothia cup soccer tournament. It reportedly transforms sweat into drinkable water. Fancy a glass of sweat? It may sound gross, but a new machine that turns human perspiration into drinking water is now on the market. The “sweat machine” — which squeezes moisture from clothes before purifying it — ...

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Train derails in Spain, 56 dead, at least100 injured: reports

El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez/AP The wreckage will stir memories of 2004’s train bombing in Madrid’s Atocha station, carried out by Islamists, that killed 191 people. A train in northwestern Spain derailed Wednesday, tossing passenger cars on their sides and scattering bodies along the tracks with as many as 56 believed dead and at least 100 injured, Spanish newspapers said. Dozens ...

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Snowden hopes to escape airport

Sergei Grits/AP Edward Snowden has been in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport since June 23. Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers by Wednesday that would allow him to leave Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, where he has been holed up since June 23, his Russian lawyer says. Anatoly Kucherena, who has assisted the fugitive American leaker in his bid for asylum in ...

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Kate Middleton gives birth to a baby boy

LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images Prince WiIliam and Kate William are now parents to a baby boy. It’s a boy! Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have welcomed a baby boy who is now third in line to the throne, Buckingham Palace confirmed. The royal baby, weighing in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces, arrived at 4:24 p.m. ...

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Kate Middleton in labor at London hospital

Samir Hussein/WireImage Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, has gone into labor. The British royal family is on the verge of expanding. Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, has gone into labor and been rushed to a London hospital with Prince William ahead of what may be one of the most anticipated births in world history. As soon as the royal ...

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Liam Gallagher, ex-Oasis frontman, is just too wild, says family

Jon Furniss/Invision/AP Liam Gallagher, now leading the band Beady Eyes, with wife Nicole Appleton, former of All Saints. Rocker Liam Gallagher’s family is blaming the former Oasis frontman for fathering a love child and cheating on his wife, Canadian singer and actress Nicole Appleton. “Liam has only got himself to blame — he’s just too wild,” an unnamed relative told ...

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King Philippe I becomes Belgium’s seventh monarch

Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Belgium’s King Philippe kisses the hand of Queen Mathilde as they stand on the balcony of the royal palace in Brussels on Sunday. BRUSSELS – King Philippe I became Belgium’s seventh monarch on Sunday’s national day after his father Albert abdicated as the head of this fractured nation. After he took the oath at the parliament filled ...

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No accountability where 23 Indian students poisoned

STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images Indian schoolchildren receive a free meal at a school in the state of Bihar, in Patna. The fatal poisoning of 23 Indian children on July 16, 2013, has rocked trust in the world’s largest free school meals scheme, but experts say some pupils have no choice but to eat the lunches. The village school in India where 23 ...

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