22 h. ago Want a limited edition artwork tattooed on your skin? Berlin is the place to go

The city’s tattoo studios are booming while the art world flounders. Under a new initiative, buyers receive exclusive rights to an artist’s new design, and the artist receives 50% of the profitIt may be the oldest art form in the world, practised 5,000 years ago by Ötzi the iceman and his fellow copper age Europeans. But with its more recent associations with red-light entertainment and gangland crime, modern tattooing has long been shunned by the galleries that turn lines on canvas into financial assets.A new initiative in Berlin concedes that the tables have turned. With tattoo studios in the German capital booming but many artists struggling to make a living, the Works on Skin project specialises in selling works by established and emerging contemporary artists that are not to be hung on a wall but to be etched on the human body. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Horrific final moments of mum 'mauled to death by 24 dogs' as daughter 'ran errands'

An elderly woman who suffered from dementia was tragically mauled to death by a pack of dogs in a horror attack in rural Colorado, US, with shocking moments leading to the attack

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6 d. ago School run horror as mum finds dogs weighing just pounds each dumped in bushes

'We are all very sad that one couldn't be saved'

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6 d. ago Shocking moment man fights off bear attack with a hatchet after disturbing mother and her cubs

This is the terrifying moment a man was forced to fight off a bear with a hatchet after disturbing her and her cubs. 

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7 d. ago Horror as 18 dogs forced to fight to survive inside caravan that 'smelt like dead human body'

The appalling conditions were uncovered when Stephen Sturman was reported missing from the caravan on a farm at Iddesleigh, Devon, in February last year

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7 d. ago Armed officers swarm street after boy, 8, and mum injured in horror dog attack

The area was taped off following the incident

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8 d. ago George Foreman: a charmer who left his mark in the dirt and dust of the fight game

Former heavyweight champion was always more complex and interesting than his contrasting personae suggestedBoxing seems a smaller and darker world now. George Foreman has gone and, with his death, he takes a little more of the ­fading light and lost glory of the ring with him. My own life in ­boxing, which stretches across 55 years, can be divided into stages and all of them carry markers Foreman left in the dirt and dust of the fight game.From the malevolent force he ­personified when he became ­heavyweight champion of the world to the lovable old grandad ­making hundreds of millions as the face of a food grill business, Foreman could be easily ­caricatured. But he was always more complex and interesting than his contrasting personae suggested. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Airport worker makes horror find after woman told she can't fly with pet dog

Alison Agatha Lawrence, 57, from Florida, has been arrested after a worker at Orlando International Airport saw her acting strangely and made a disturbing discovery in a bin

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1 week ago The shocking things 286 days in space does to a human body: As rescued NASA astronauts stun the world with their frail and gaunt appearance, how their bodies have been ravaged by the void

Shocking before-and-after images of NASA's stranded astronauts show the terrifying damage that months spent in the harsh conditions in space will do to you.

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1 week ago Why returning to Earth is so dangerous as NASA's 'stranded' astronauts come home

Getting home from space is far from easy – both for spacecraft and the human body

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1 week ago Severed human foot and other body parts found on washed up on holiday hotspot beach

The grim find is the tenth discovery of a body or body part off the coast of the Balearic Islands, hugely popular with British tourists, since the start of the year

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1 week ago Woman who kept body parts inside walls of her home caught when dog vomited human toes

A woman stood in court after it appeared she sold human remains online after a dog vomited up toes following the death of its owner – and she could have earned a hefty price

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1 week ago The shocking changes to human body after 9 months in space as Nasa astronauts 'stranded'

From 'baby feet' to 'chicken leg syndrome', living in outer space can have alarming effects on the human body

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2 w. ago Inside the gruesome house of horrors where twisted woman hoped to sell human body parts online

A former animal shelter worker who attempted to sell human toes coughed-up by the dog of a dead man had been part of a ghoulish Facebook group focused on bodily remains. 

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2 w. ago Mountain rescue teams rush to save dog after horror fall at Scots beauty spot

Images from the late-night rescue operation show teams working tirelessly into the evening to save the pup.

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2 w. ago Microplastics are in our blood: can this new London clinic really get rid of them?

Studies have found microplastics in almost every part of the human body, from the brain to the heart... but there could be a science-backed solution

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2 w. ago Alive: an alternative anatomy by Gabriel Weston: Being in the room where life and death are decided

Dr Gabriel Weston takes the reader on a tour of the human body in this all too revealing book of anatomy

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2 w. ago West Bromwich 'XL Bully' attack horror as man mauled by Tasered dog in back garden

Armed cops were escorted by a specialist dog unit to taser the dog, which is thought to be an XL Bully, before it died at the scene in a West Bromwich back garden

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2 w. ago Investigations continue after man and his pet dog killed in horror crash

A vehicle flipped over and struck the victim as he walked with his dog

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2 w. ago Teen tells of moment man and his dog were crushed and killed 'when car crashed into her taxi and flipped'

19-year-old Madison Burrows, who witnessed a car reportedly flip onto a pedestrian and his dog, reveals says she will 'never get the image out' of her head. 

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