A pet dog dumped in a suitcase and gagged with a cloth was rescued by horrified passers by when they saw the case moving. The black dog - identifeid as 10-year-old Zaira in local media - had been left by its owner in a wheelie case under a lamppost in…
A nine-year-old schoolgirl has died in Egypt after her teacher reportedly beat her over the head with a stick for making a spelling mistake. Her father claims that school staff then dumped the critically ill youngster outside the family home, bleeding and unconscious. Tragic Basmala Osama Ali Othman died in…
An amazed recycler couldn't believe his eyes when he searched a dumped box for old metal and found a newborn baby inside. The street salvager had found the closed cardboard box in the Vila Formosa neighbourhood of Ipatinga, Minas Gerais state, south-eastern Brazil on the afternoon of Wednesday, 14th September.…
A dead baby has been found dumped at a recycling centre in Germany. The shocking discovery was made in the city of Halle in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on 27th December. The police received a phone call from a person who had found the body at the outer fence…
A newborn baby girl that was stolen from its mother’s arms at a Mexican hospital by a woman dressed as a nurse has been found a day later next to a block of flats. The abduction took place at Hospital General de Occidente in the city of Zapopan in the…
A rare Roman gravestone almost ended up in a rubbish tip after it was dug up during building work and dumped in a pile of rubble ready to be taken away. Luckily, the excavation work was being watched by Erdogan Tunaboylu from his nearby flat in the district of Nilufer…
Bags of cocaine weighing almost two tonnes were recovered from the sea after being dumped by drug couriers in a speed boat who were being chased by police. The footage was shared by the National Coast Guard of Costa Rica who pulled it out of the sea after capturing the…
This curious-looking feline has set tongues wagging online with thanks to its 'moustache' which has led to comparisons with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. These images show the kitten - which was picked up by the animal ambulance from a box in Amsterdam North, in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The animal…
A husband in Iran has allegedly beheaded his teenage wife and dumped her severed head by a river in a reported honour killing after she left him a year previously. The incident took place in the city of Abadan, in the south-western Iranian province of Khuzestan. According to local media,…
An African mum ostracised after giving birth to an albino baby and dumped by her partner has been flooded with offers of help after sharing a picture of the little girl wearing a plastic bag as a nappy. Zandile Dladla is the mother of three children and was dumped after…