An Australian performance artist who was buried in a steel container under a busy road for 72 hours as part of a so-called dark arts festival was released from his self-imposed prison on Sunday.

A single Wendy’s location in Catoosa, Oklahoma is bringing about a public relations nightmare for The Wendy’s Company after employees have shared videos of rodents infiltrating the restaurant’s consumable inventory. The video, as reported by out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, shows what appears to be mice or rats crawling around inside a bag of hamburger buns. To top things off, visible fecal matter from the aforementioned rodents is also present in the video.
The Wendy’s Company was quick to release a statement on the video, which has now gone viral.
Nothing is more important… than the safety of our employees and customers… We have stringent procedures in place to ensure a safe and well-maintained restaurant.
It’s worth noting that this location in Catoosa is but a single unit amid many. The Wendy’s Company owns more then 5,000 restaurants across the United States and says they have launched a full-on investigation into this matter.

A young fellow in England died of self-inflicted stab wounds while trying to demonstrate a supposedly “stab-proof” vest he was wearing, is reporting.
Everybody who knew Jordan Easton loved him, say his family and neighbors. Indeed, he was a popular character in the estate (what the British call a public housing project) where he lived. However, his young life ended back on August 23, 2017, just a few days after his 22nd birthday, when he made a series of decisions that ultimately proved fatal.
Teesside assistant coroner Karin Welsh, reporting on the findings of a coroner’s inquest into the young man’s death, says that at the time of his death, Easton was at a friend’s house when he decided to demonstrate the capabilities of a “stab-proof vest” he was wearing.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover has recently released a new batch of photos taken from its current location in the Martian Gale Crater. The images were posted online by the in Pasadena, California, which designed and built the Mars rover and is now managing the robot’s mission on the Red Planet.
The snapshots were taken by the rover’s Front Hazcam on Sol 2080, or June 13, and reveal a bizarre blurred shape that appears to be moving on Mars, reports the .
The British news outlet cites the claims made by conspiracy theorists, who suggest that the mysterious object could be proof of life on Mars and that its perceived movement resembles that of an animal running across the red dirt on the planet’s surface.
These allegations are being made particularly by the “Secureteam10” YouTube channel, which uploaded a video playing the Curiosity rover images side by side.

More than 11,000 Australians who rushed for the chance to strip for American photographer Spencer Tunick will soon wear only smiles after a national supermarket chain changed its mind about allowing the shoot to go ahead on a suburban rooftop carpark.

Researchers in Hungary who found that normal and overweight dogs behaved differently in tasks involving food say the dogs’ responses were similar to what might be expected in normal and overweight humans.

Nigerian fans cheering on their national team in Saturday's World Cup match against Croatia will be missing an important item in their supporter's toolkit: chickens.

Fat dogs have a lot in common with overweight humans, including an interest in top quality food and an unwillingness to settle for second best, Hungarian scientists have found.

Want to know who will win the first match of the World Cup? The cat's out of the bag: it's Russia.

Kate Boyle thought she’d have some fun with friends when she picked up a six-pack of Not See Cola. Then she realized that what she was actually buying was Nazi Cola.
According to the , Boyle only realized the nature of the offending drink when she got it home and sounded it out. “Wait, that’s Nazi Cola,” she said.
That realization, combined with the realization that the black eagle on the label represented the German coat of arms under the Nazi regime, and the fact that the company puts out other offensive beverages with names like “Orthodox Jooce,” caused Boyle to take to social media to air her grievances with the Real Soda of Utah beverage company, who puts out the drinks.
Boyle said that she was “shocked and horrified” by the company, and called upon the grocery store chain to stop stocking the soda in question.
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A raccoon that climbed to the top of a 25-story St. Paul, Minnesota, skyscraper early on Wednesday was captured after becoming a star on the web, where it won the hearts of followers across the United States and around the globe.

Minutes after plunging two meters (6.5 ft) to the ground as his mother gave birth, baby giraffe Twiga was frolicking round his pen as the newest arrival at Belgium's Planckendael Zoo.

A raccoon reached the top of a 25-story St. Paul, Minnesota, skyscraper early on Wednesday after becoming a star on the web, where it captured the hearts of followers across the United States and around the globe.

A Colorado teenager is facing prison time for defacing a fragile national monument in pursuit of a poorly-thought-out “promposal,” (Denver) is reporting.
Every spring, the media runs stories of so-called “promposals” – that is, a portmanteau of the words “prom” and “proposal.” Sometimes, they’re cute beyond words; other times, they’re brave, such as when a bullied LGBTQ youth asks another LGBTQ youth. Other times they’re, shall we say, questionable.
Such is the case with the unknown teen who thought it a good idea to spray-paint his promposal on some rocks. That would have been well and good, but for the fact that those rocks are in Colorado National Monument. For starters, those rock formations are hundreds of millions of years old and are nothing short of a natural wonder. For another thing, the National Park Service takes a dim view of vandalism. Even well-intentioned vandalism.

An 18th century Chinese vase found in a shoebox in an attic in France sold for 16.2 million euros ($19 million) at auction in Paris on Tuesday.

Bulgaria agreed on Monday to spare the life of Penka the cow after plans to kill her for crossing European Union borders without paperwork triggered an international outcry.

The image may not be as racy as virtually everything else on the website, but Burlington County, New Jersey, resident Edward Kelly is suing the owners of Pornhub for using his photo for advertisements run on the adult entertainment site.
According to a report from , Kelly filed a civil lawsuit against Mindgeek USA Inc., after a friend saw a photo of him sitting in a car, wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates hat and holding up several hundred-dollar bills next to the words “Make $752/day Like Me” and “See how I get it” on a Pornhub advertisement. The report notes that Kelly is the legal owner of the photo’s copyright, as he had taken the picture himself, and that he did not allow for it to be used by outside sources without permission.
“Someone on Pornhub’s advertising team found the photo… and decided to use it in an ad campaign without [Kelly’s] consent,” the lawsuit reads, as quoted by the .

A woman with severe arachnophobia had no idea how to deal with a large spider in her home, so she decided to call in a hit man — a delivery driver from KFC who she had kill the eight-legged invader.
The incident happened this week in England, where college student Demi Sweeney came across a spider on her wall. As reported, Sweeney tried to call a friend to come over and kill the spider, but the friend was not able and instead suggested that she call to order some take-out food and see if the delivery man would do the job.
Sweeney used the app Deliveroo to make her order and add the special request to kill the spider.

Some people say dogs are man’s best friend, but for one Florida man, his BFF is a Capuchin monkey who didn’t want to part with him… even as he was being arrested!
Cody Blake Hesson was caught by the Pasco Sheriff’s Office in Holiday, Florida, on Friday for reportedly driving a stolen car, according to Memphis’ .
The vehicle had been reported stolen by its owner, noted the . The owner did admit that the car was unlocked and the keys had been left on the floorboard though.
Hesson, 23, had driven the vehicle about 30 miles north of the St. Petersburg location he found it at. He wound up driving the car into a ditch at a gas station, which is where authorities finally caught up with him. The police were unaware of his pet monkey until the last minute.
Another surprise for the cops? The simian, named Monk, was wearing a diaper!

Astronauts from the International Space Station gave Pope Francis his own blue jump suit on Friday but to distinguish him from ordinary planetary pilgrims like themselves they added a white cape.