6 h. ago Couple caught having sex in 'holy' church grounds by parishioners learn fate

Two people caught by shocked parishioners at a city centre church have learned their fate after pleading guilty to a 'lewd, obscene and disgusting act outraging public decency'

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1 week ago Shaken couple who caught man having sex with their calves on farm CCTV fear he'll return

Liam Brown sickened Britain when his depraved acts to innocent bovine creatures were brought to light when he was convicted of sexual penetration of a live animal

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1 week ago Shaken couple who caught man having sex with calves on farm fear he'll return

Liam Brown sickened Britain when his depraved acts to innocent bovine creatures were brought to light when he was convicted of sexual penetration of a live animal

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2 w. ago Sex offender takes a leak in holy water at church as worker confirms 'that is urine'

A registered sex offender allegedly urinated into a holy water font in a Pennsylvania church, according to investigators who have charged the 51-year-old suspect

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2 w. ago Couple caught smuggling 6 sedated baby monkeys in their pants through airport

Six monkeys were rescued by airport authorities after a couple tried to smuggle them out of a county in their pants. Tragically, two of the monkeys died after being rushed to a wildlife centre

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2 w. ago Peg o’ My Heart review – Hong Kong’s disordered dream life is focus of Lynchian thriller

Set in the aftermath of the 2008 crash, Nick Cheung’s film follows a loose-cannon psychiatrist through a city deranged by stock-market stormsAn immolated teenager flailing in a run down tenement. A doubledecker bus suspended above a calm sea bay. A dishevelled middle-aged couple frolicking down a high street, caught in their own private musical. There’s an irrepressible fountain of dream imagery erupting out of Nick Cheung’s fourth feature, which imagines Hong Kong after the 2008 financial crash as a nightmarish inland empire awash in outrage, anguish and guilt. “Other people’s money!” crows one investor – but the real business here is other people’s dreams.Loose-cannon psychiatrist Dr Man (Terrance Lau) is under censure from his bosses for investigating his patients’ private lives. Maybe it’s his own uneasy dreams that motivate him to trespass, though a new bizarre case gives him added cause to go the extra mile. A narcoleptic taxi driver admitted to hospital after nodding off and ...

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3 w. ago I had a passionate crush on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Could it still thrill me 19 years later?

When Bethesda surprise-released a remake last week, I revisited its world with my son to see if the magic was still thereFor a 10-day period the summer of 2006, in between handing in my resignation at my first job on a games magazine and returning to Scotland to start university, I did almost nothing except eat, sleep and play The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on my Xbox 360. I hauled my TV from the living room of my small, unpleasantly warm flatshare into my bedroom so I could play uninterrupted; it was all I could think about. My character was a Khajiit thief, a kind of manky lion in black-leather armour with excellent pickpocketing skills. One afternoon, I decided to see whether I could steal every single object in the smallish town of Bravil, and got caught by the guards a couple of hours in. I did a runner, dropping a trail of random plates, cheese wheels and doublets in my wake, and the guards pursued me all the way to the other side of the map, where they finally got entangled w...

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3 w. ago London Marathon couple issued humble apology after being caught 'cheating'

It is one of the hardest events any person can take on, but merely earning a place in the London Marathon also comes with many of its own challenges

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4 w. ago Royals and refugees to come together in Rome for funeral of Pope Francis

At least 130 foreign delegations and an estimated 200,000 pilgrims to descend on St Peter’s Square on SaturdayAn extraordinary array of invitees, spanning heads of state and royals from around the world, as well as refugees, prisoners, transgender people and those who are homeless will descend on St Peter’s Square on Saturday for the funeral of Pope Francis, the groundbreaking liberal pontiff who led the Catholic church for 12 years.Francis died at the age of 88 on Monday at his home in Casa Santa Marta after a stroke and subsequent heart failure. He had been recovering from double pneumonia that had kept him in hospital for five weeks. Continue reading...

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