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12/05/2011 / UNITED STATES
Videos show ‘Water for Elephants’ star abused during 2005 training
A video released by animal rights group Animal Defenders International (ADI) shows the elephant that appears alongside Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson in the new film Water for Elephants being beaten and given electric shocks during a 2005 training session. Read more...
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06/05/2011 / USA
Police shut down college block party with pepper spray
It was meant to be a party to celebrate the upcoming end of the school year at Western Illinois University. Instead, the Wheeler Street block party in the rural Midwestern town of Macomb got out of hand resulting in hundreds of partygoers red-eyed from pepper spray, injured police officers, dozens of arrests and lots of confusion over who was to blame. Read more...
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26/04/2011 / USA
Memo to police officers: If you beat up a cameraman, make sure you erase his film
When the policeman in the video below noticed he was being filmed while conducting an arrest, he threw the camera to the ground, beat up its owner, and dragged him off to the police station. This act of police brutality would likely have gone unnoticed… had the officer thought of deleting the film. Read more and watch the video...
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21/04/2011 / USA
Texas wildfires: 'The wall of flames came right up to the city limits'
Texas firefighters battled several massive blazes across the state on Wednesday, March 21, for the seventh consecutive day. Over one million acres of land have burned in the draught-ridden state, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes. Read more…
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19/04/2011 / USA
Killer US tornados caught on camera
A record-breaking streak of tornados swept through several southern US states between April 14 -16, leaving a trail of death and devastation behind. 45 people were killed, including 23 in North Carolina alone. Amateur videos document the strength of the storm and the extent of the damage.. Watch the videos…
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29/03/2011 / UNITED STATES
New York ‘bomb shelter’ aims to raise awareness of rocket attacks on Israel
Pedestrians strolling through New York’s Washington Square Park on Monday, March 28, encountered a startling sight: a crowd of people rushing for cover in a bomb shelter after hearing the loud wail of a warning siren. Terrorist attack? Not exactly. Read more…
18/02/2011 / UNITED STATES
Fasting from fashion: blogger wears single dress for one year
The average Western woman reportedly has 22 unworn items in her wardrobe, yet chances are at least once in her life she has uttered the universal complaint: “I have nothing to wear!” To free herself from this tiresome dilemma, American Kirsty Powell took a drastic step: she decided to wear the same black dress for a whole year. Read more...
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03/02/2011 / UNITED STATES
Video of US wild horse capture branded animal cruelty by activists
Wild mustangs – majestic herds of undomesticated horses that roam free across ten US states – are a symbol of the American Wild West. But animal rights activists say that government-planned roundups to control the herd’s population are nothing short of animal cruelty – and claim they have videos to prove it. Read more and watch the videos…
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29/12/2010 / UNITED STATES
29/12/2010 / UNITED STATES
Censored US anti-war mural shows some art subjects are still taboo
Artists and free speech advocates are up in arms in the United States since the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary art (MOCA) commissioned a mural by Italian street artist Blu – then deleted it before it was showed to the public. Read more…
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