[Link] ‘It’s awful to be a medical exception’: the woman who cannot forget

Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com

Every morning since January 2004, Rebecca Sharrock crosses off the date on a calendar in her room. Like many people, the 31-year-old uses it to keep track of time, distinguishing the present day from the ones that came before.

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[Link] Family Finds Dead Grandfather Being Dissected at an ‘Oddities’ Event

Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com

The family discovered what happened to their grandfathers’ body only after an undercover journalist from Seattle news outlet KING5 attended the October event and spotted the man’s name on a tag hanging from his body.

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[Link] Inside the Facebook Group that Sexualises Pregnant Women

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

The group, whose name in Malay “Koleksi Mak Buyung Malaysia'' translates to “My Collection of Pregnant Women,” attracted at least 5,000 members before it was removed on Monday evening for “violating site policies”.

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[Link] Man Gets Double Life Sentence For Killing His Wife With a Cobra

Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com

According to prosecution lawyers, Sooraj Kumar killed his wife, Uthra, for her gold jewellery and wanted to marry another woman. This was Kumar’s third attempt to murder his wife, they said. In March last year, Kumar allegedly set a viper to bite Uthra while she was staying with her in-laws.

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