Animals
Canada Prepares to Slaughter its Seals

 Over the coming days tens of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed and hacked to death off Canada’s east coast. Hundreds of thousands more will be shot and left to die. The lucky ones will die swiftly. Many will suffer long lingering deaths….

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Tournament of blood: The sheer horror of horse-fighting
 'Cultural tradition' or the world's cruellest sport? Horse-fighting is big business in the Philippines and has a huge following. Here we reveal the true horror of horse-fighting.... 
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Rescued Bears Free at Last

 As the early morning mist curled around Dracula's castle, the three bears cautiously sniffed the air and stepped gingerly out of their cages. It was the first time they'd been free of their tiny prison cells for at least a decade......

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Thrown to the lions: China's latest spectator sport
demo4.pngIn China you can watch animals disemboweled while you dine on braised dog, watch live tortoise baiting and feed live sheep and goats to the lions.....
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Elephants Rescue Animal Sanctuary Workers
elephant For the baby elephant Boon Rod, it was a day to remember. She was finally reunited with her friends after devastating floods destroyed her home at the Elephant Haven sanctuary in Thailand.

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Baby Gorillas Abducted For Private Zoos

baby gorilla Gorillas and chimpanzees are not only being hunted and slaughtered to the edge of extinction, their children are increasingly being abducted to serve as exclusive pets for rich collectors.

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Eight-Year-Old Matadors Forced into Bullfighting in Latin America

 Rafita Mirabel is no ordinary toreador. He is just ten years old, one of the growing army of child bullfighters that are daily putting their lives at risk as the money men behind this barbaric entertainment try to reinvigorate the sport in the face of dwindling crowds.

Newsmonster investigates..... (And watch the video)

 

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China's factory farmed tigers that are made into wine

 Cruel amost beyond belief, China has now started breeding hundreds of tigers in battery farms so they can be turned into wine. Newsmonster discovered one factory farm in south east China that keeps over 1300 tigers in appalling conditions. The farm lays on shows for tourists where they can see animals torn to pieces by the big cats. They also sell stir-fried tiger strips and tiger curry. Also on the menu was tiger wine, made from the bones of the incredibly rare Siberian tiger..... 

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Mysteries and the Unexplained
The man who created the supernatural
 Supernatural frogs falling from the sky, mysterious airships, spontaneous human combustion... it all fascinated Charles Fort, whose appetite for the paranormal lives on today in sci-fi, conspiracy theories and that quirky chronicle of the unknown, the Fortean Times.
 
Has a famous paranormal researcher returned from the dead?

 The spirit of Montague Keen watched helplessly as his body was loaded into an ambulance. His wife, Veronica, stared blankly into the distance, tears flooding down her face. Her friends whispered words of hope, but in her heart she knew her husband was dead.  

 
Could hypnotism replace anaesthetics in surgery?
 It sounds ridiculous and terrifying in equal measure but could hypnotism replace general anaesthetics in surgery? Many doctors certainly think so. Belgian surgeons have carried out over 6,000 operations using only hypnosis to dull the pain including hysterectomies and major abdominal surgery....
 
 
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Strange Tales 11: Which Story is False?
Can you tell fact from fiction? Play our game. Read the four stories presented. Three of the stories are true, but one of them has been completely manufactured. Detect which...

Read more at: http://paranormal.about.com/b/2008/07/07/strange-tales-11-which-story-is-false.htm

 
 
Animal Stories
Canada Prepares to Slaughter its Seals

 Over the coming days tens of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed and hacked to death off Canada’s east coast. Hundreds of thousands more will be shot and left to die. The lucky ones will die swiftly. Many will suffer long lingering deaths….

 
Tournament of blood: The sheer horror of horse-fighting
 'Cultural tradition' or the world's cruellest sport? Horse-fighting is big business in the Philippines and has a huge following. Here we reveal the true horror of horse-fighting.... 
 
Rescued Bears Free at Last

 As the early morning mist curled around Dracula's castle, the three bears cautiously sniffed the air and stepped gingerly out of their cages. It was the first time they'd been free of their tiny prison cells for at least a decade......

 


 
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Gadget Reviews
Denon AH-C751 Earphones
 In a word “Amazing”. There’s no other way of describing these Denon earphones. They produce wonderful sound, are built to last and look pretty cool too.

Newsmonster tested these earphones over a couple of months so that we could pick up on those niggling little faults that only show up after a lot of heavy use. These earphones are one of the few things we’ve tested which didn’t seem to have any faults at all. We dropped them too often, trod on them and used them in the pouring rain. Nothing seemed to phaze ‘em. They’re as tough as old boots (probably because they’re made of chunks of machined aluminium) and sound wonderful too.
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