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Security camera footage has captured a 3-year-old boy falling from a three-storey balcony in Southeast Turkey. His fall was cushioned by a stack of plastic pipes. Bayram Altinkaya was hanging from the balcony of his house when his hands slipped and he fell. Bayram’s mother said she had gone inside the house briefly when her little boy fell Continue Reading

Police in southern Russia will launch a probe into an initiative by local entrepreneurs who sent a donkey into the sky on a parachute in an advertising stunt. The official spokesman for the local directorate of the Interior Ministry told reporters that the parachuting donkey incident took place last Thursday on an Azov Sea beach in the Temryk Continue Reading

Geothermal landscape and volcanic caldera, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

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10 lives were left hanging by a thread – literally – when an extreme thrill ride on a rocket-like attraction almost ended in tragedy. Visitors to one of St. Petersburg’s amusement parks were in for a nasty shock as a cable snapped on the ride, leaving them suspended in mid-air 70 meters above the ground. Luckily, rescue teams Continue Reading