Top 10 Horror Stories from Dating Apps
From robberies to unwanted sexual advances and even murder, here are the top 10 dating app horror stories. Men were posing as women on dating apps, only to show up and rob their date. In February 2020, Greenbelt police urged people to refrain from meeting strangers through dating apps. In Detroit in 2020, police were seeking a serial robber posing as a woman on dating apps before forcing them to withdraw money from the ATM for him. After ten days of dating, Beckman broke it off.
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May 09, 2021 06:56 UTC
Hugging friends and relatives will be allowed from NEXT WEEK
Hugging friends and family will be allowed from next week so long as people use their 'common sense,' Boris Johnson will announce tomorrow. The latest figures show that nearly 35.2million Britons have been given at least one dose of Covid vaccine, after another 119,349 first injections were administered on Thursday. Surge testing has been happening in the former mill town of Bolton, which has been identified as a hotspot for the Indian Covid variant. Mr Johnson said on Thursday that tracking of the Indian variant will be 'absolutely ruthless'. Public Health England has divided the Indian variant into three sub-types because they aren't identical.
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May 09, 2021 05:48 UTC
Foreigners reveal the telltale signs a traveller is Aussie
So a group of overseas travellers have come together to reveal the telltale signs that a tourist is from Down Under. 'If you see a bloke overseas with this ensemble on his head, there's a 90 per cent chance he's Australian. One glaring difference foreigners notice regularly is the Australian approach to taking care of the environment. Overseas, they're more likely to keep their showers short and snappy and turn taps off tight enough to avoid any waste. 'If the traveller is holding a beer, they are probably Australian,' one person wrote on the forum.
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May 09, 2021 05:03 UTC
Lasith Malinga is back?
Lasith Malinga may return to the Sri Lanka team for the forthcoming T20 World CupAfter his ODI retirement many moons ago, and an outbreak of a pandemic and resultant lockdowns, here comes a hero probably for his last hurrah! Slinging sensation Lasith Malinga has been invited by the national selection committee to discuss about the maestro’s future plans with the national team, the Morning Sports learnt last week. Selectors to meet Malinga soon“We have found out that every successful team have a specific average on those two aspects. There are two back-to-back T20 World Cups that are coming up, this year and next year,” Wickramasinghe added. Meanwhile, when contacted by the Morning Sports, Malinga said he is looking forward to the proposed meeting with the national selectors.
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May 09, 2021 05:01 UTC
Sadiq Khan to serve as Mayor of London once again
Sadiq Khan has been re-elected as the mayor of London. Khan won 55.2 percent of the vote compared with 44.8 percent for Shaun Bailey, the candidate from the ruling Conservative party. Khan seeks to ensure that “London can play its part in a national recovery” and that a “brighter, greener and more equal future” is built for the UK capital. In his victory speech, Khan referred to his humble origins, growing up in public housing in an ethnically mixed residential area in south London. “I grew up on a council estate, a working-class boy, a child of immigrants, but I’m now the mayor of London,” he said, describing himself as “a Londoner through and through”.
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May 09, 2021 04:52 UTC
Ushan Thiwanka sets new Sri Lanka and South Asia high jump record
USA-based Sri Lankan athlete Ushan Thiwanka Perera has set a new South Asian and Sri Lankan high jump record at the 2021 Lone Star Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships, in Texas. The 23-year-old, who represents Texas A&M University-Commerce, set the record with a jump of 2.30 meters to place first in the Men’s High Jump event at the outdoor championships. In March this year, Thiwanka had broken the long-standing Sri Lanka high jump record of 2.27m which was set by Manjula Kumara Wijesekera in 2004 and equaled in 2005. He had also previously set a new Sri Lanka indoor high jump record of 2.26m. — Lone Star Conference (@LoneStarConf) May 8, 2021RELATED: Ushan Thiwanka sets new record in High Jump
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May 09, 2021 04:52 UTC
Elon Musk delivers SNL monologue
Elon Musk has delivered his monologue on Saturday Night Live, poking fun at his own eccentricities and appearing to reveal that he has 'Asperger's'. In his monologue, Musk himself did not mention by name the joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin by name, sending the price of the volatile asset plunging dramatically as he spoke. So I won't make a lot of eye contact with the cast tonight,' Musk said in his monologue. And now all the time I hear "Elon Musk, all he does is smoke weed on podcasts."' For the first time in SNL's 46-year history, the episode featuring Musk aired live internationally on YouTube in more than 100 countries.
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May 09, 2021 04:52 UTC
Jadeja and Bumrah return in India squad for WTC final
Ravindra Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah made comebacks as India on Friday (7) announced a 20-member squad for their International Cricket Council (ICC) World Test Championship (WTC) final against New Zealand, and the subsequent Test series in England. Hanuma Vihari, who also missed the home series against England earlier this year, made a return as well. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have named four standby players – Abhimanyu Easwaran, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, and Arzan Nagwaswalla – who will make the trip to England. The WTC final, pitting the top two sides in the league standings, will be played at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton from 18 to 22 June. The five-match series against England will start in Nottingham on 4 August.
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May 09, 2021 04:07 UTC
Chinese Long March rocket breaks up on reentry over Maldives
China's Long March rocket stage has reentered Earth's atmosphere over the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, China's national space agency confirmed. China's Long March rocket stage has reentered Earth's atmosphere over the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, China's national space agency confirmedA massive 18-ton chunk of a Chinese rocket crashed back to earth tonight. That Long March 5B rocket carried the main module of Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, into orbit on April 29. The roughly 30-meter (100-foot) -long stage would be among the biggest space debris to fall to Earth. China's first space station, Tiangong-1, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2016 after Beijing confirmed it had lost control.
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May 09, 2021 03:45 UTC
Port City Bill on backburner, Government focus on fertiliser ban
Rathana Thera had also added to the conversation, saying he was no longer invited for the governing party leaders’ meeting although he was included in the list of party leaders until last year’s general election. Rathana Thera was indeed invited to the party leaders’ meeting until last year’s general election. Prime Minister Rajapaksa had asked Kularatne to look into the matter of the non-inclusion of Ven. Covid and fertiliser issueThe party leaders’ meeting last Tuesday had not discussed the proposed amendments to the PC elections. Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe arrived in the country during the last week of April and held talks with President Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Rajapaksa.
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May 09, 2021 02:37 UTC
Elon Musk's controversial hosting gig will be streamed live to 100 countries on YouTube
'It's incredibly exciting to create this worldwide event with host Elon Musk and musical guest Miley Cyrus,' he added. Miley Cyrus isn't showing any nerves with only hours to go before her Saturday Night Live performance. When Musk's casting was first announced in April, cast members Bowen Yang and Aidy Bryant posted Instagram Stories taking aim at Musk. Sources then said cast members would not be forced to appear alongside Musk if they didn't want to. 'Hi, I'm Elon Musk, and I'm hosting SNL this week with musical guest Miley Cyrus.
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May 08, 2021 22:30 UTC
Finally, the proof Covid vaccines ARE safe when you're pregnant
The message from health chiefs is clear: Covid-19 vaccines are safe for pregnant women. Despite this, experts say that roughly one in five pregnant patients are hesitant about getting a Covid jab. Yet scientists remain adamant there is no evidence to suggest any of the Covid vaccines have any effect on pregnancy. He says: ‘Everything that we know about vaccines pointed to these ones being safe for pregnant women, but that’s not enough to go on, you need data. It had tracked the condition of more than 90,000 pregnant women who had received a vaccine, the majority of them in their third trimester.
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May 08, 2021 21:56 UTC
Mail on Sunday forces ban on cruel lion farms
In a stunning victory for former Tory peer Lord Ashcroft and this newspaper, South Africa has announced plans to ban the breeding of captive lions for hunting. The Mail on Sunday was today hailed for exposing the appalling cruelty of South Africa's lion farms after the country pledged to outlaw the hunting of big cats in enclosures and end the vile trade of lion bones. It also detailed the astonishing story of how Lord Ashcroft and his team rescued a captive-bred lion named Simba from a ranch and released him into a large enclosure. Writing in today's MoS, Lord Ashcroft said South Africa's crackdown 'is a triumphant step forward in the march to stamp out this offence to nature'. South Africa is the only country that allows large-scale lion-breeding, with animals kept in fenced enclosures at 300 farms.
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May 08, 2021 21:22 UTC
Queen's cousin in Kremlin cash-for-access storm
Fictitious executives were told Prince Michael of Kent could be hired to endorse their company to Vladimir Putin's inner circle, a bombshell report claims. Prince Michael, a grandson of King George V, allegedly said he would give the 'House of Haedong' his endorsement in the Kremlin for a $200,000 fee. There are few rules that dictate how a royal can earn private income, and Prince Michael does not receive any money from the civil list. In a statement, Prince Michael said: 'Prince Michael receives no public funding and earns his own living through a consultancy company that he has run for over 40 years. 'They last met in June 2003 and Prince Michael has had no contact with him or his office since then.
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May 08, 2021 19:52 UTC
Hamilton beats Verstappen to take 100th career pole in Spain
F1: Lewis Hamilton has become the first driver in the history of Formula 1 to make it to 100 pole positions, triumphing over the Red Bull of Max Verstappen by just 0.036s in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix, as his Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas claimed P3. Hamilton set a blistering 1m 16.741s on his first lap in Q3, with Verstappen narrowly behind. But with all eyes trained on the fight at the front in the final minutes of qualifying, neither Hamilton, Verstappen nor Bottas could improve on their second runs, meaning Hamilton claimed his record-extending 100th pole position – with the Mercedes driver yelling exuberantly on team radio after a phenomenal milestone in the history of Formula 1 was reached. It wasn’t all bad for Verstappen, however, who after showing strong pace in Q2 to lead the segment, claimed his first ever front row start at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, ahead of Bottas. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc confirmed the Scuderia’s turn of speed this weekend with P4, as Alpine’s Esteban Ocon continued the team’s form from Portimao with fifth.
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May 08, 2021 19:52 UTC