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After almost three decades since the Sega Genesis was launched, the beloved console is making a comeback with a target release date of 2017. The reissued version, called the Mega Drive Limited Edition, will be produced and distributed by Brazilian company Tectoy in Brazil, RocketNews24 reports. The firm has previously distributed …

A dead man has been voted into office in the USA, reports say. Gary Erns who died of natural causes in September was elected to office in the coastal San Diego County city of Oceanside, more than a month later. He was elected to Oceanside City Treasurer by a six percent …

A woman in her late 20s has been confirmed dead after she was reportedly gang-defiled in an abandoned building on Farawe Street, Agbado-Oja, in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman, whose identity had yet to be determined, was found unclad and unconscious …

Police in the Japanese city of Kyoto have arrested a 56 year-old man on s*xual assault charges, after he allegedly licked and nibbled a woman’s foot for more than 30 minutes. Akira Nishiyama, who was arrested on Monday, was reported to have talked to a woman in her 20s into sitting in …

Chinese police in the city of Shenzhen have begun punishing car drivers who misuse their headlights and confuse other road users by asking them to stare into the full-beam headlights of a police car for one minute. The offenders are also fined in addition to this. The penalty was first announced on China’s equivalent of Twitter, Sino Weibo, …

The Canadian immigration website has crashed amid Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory. This has prompted many to link the two developments. As election took place in the US, and Trump posting big gains in key battleground states, Canada’s immigration website crashed, media reports said. ”There’s no guarantee the two things …

Mahendra Ahirwar, a 13-year-old boy from India who lived most of his life with his head hanging to one side has died months after he underwent a corrective surgery to cure his bizarre condition. Ahirwar is said to have suffered from conprivate part myopathy, a condition which made the muscles in his …

A man was found defiling a neighbour’s female goat on Friday night, Kenyan media reports. Gabrielle Simiyu, 26, was nabbed in action by the goat’s owner Richard Wanyonyi while checking the animal shed after hearing noises. ”I thought my animals were strangling each other so I tiptoed to the cow shed and …

A German second division club, Dynamo Dresden, have been fined €60,000 after their supporters threw threw a severed bull’s head near the pitch during a Cup match. The German football association (DFB) said on Tuesday that the club, already on probation from incidents last season, failed to safeguard their high-risk German Cup …

A Catholic priest in the US has chosen an extreme method to gather votes for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Father Frank Pavone displayed an aborted baby in his church to encourage people to vote for Trump in the US election because of his anti-abortion stance. The service was streamed to …

Passengers heading to Mexico City on a flight got the shock of their lives when they spotted a snake on board the plane. The reptile was found seen in the Aeromexico plane which took off from Torreon heading to the Mexican capital, the air carrier said in a statement distributed on Tuesday. In accordance with existing …

A student has been confirmed dead as a result of hypertension, two hours before his mathematics examination at the Jomo Kenyatta High School. The student, whose identity was revealed as Francis Gikonyo, was preparing to sit for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, on Monday when he passed away. …

A Indian man born with four legs has appealed to doctors to amputate his two extra limbs after living with the bizarre condition all his life. 22 year-old Arun Kumar has two limbs on his lower back – one underdeveloped and the other permanently bent at the knee. After living without …

The underpants of the wife of late leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, has been sold off at an auction in England. BBC reports that Eva Braun‘s knickers which were expected to sell for about £400 sold for a reported £2,900 at an auction at the Philip Serrell auction house in Malvern. …

A street performer dressed as Spiderman came to the rescue when he managed to take down a suspected shoplifter as shocked passers-by watched in awe. Mark Zilio also known as ‘Peter Parkour’ tried his hand at real-life crime fighting when he restrained the fleeing suspect. Zilio was working outside the store …

An Italian priest has blamed the recent earthquakes that have ravaged the European country in recent times on gay civil unions. Father Giovanni Cavalcoli said the tremors which killed hundreds and left tens of thousands homeless, were “divine punishment” for the unions, earning the Vatican’s wrath. The theologian known for his strict views, made the comments …

A 36 year-old man, Adebayo Kehinde, on Monday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly pouring hot rice on his neighbour, following an argument on house cleaning. The accused person, who is a trader, lives at 1, Olusegun Close, Mafoluku, Oshodi, a suburb of Lagos and he is standing …

Delta State Police Command has arrested two Mobile Police Corporals attached to MOPOL 31, Ogwashi-Uku, over alleged involvement in the kidnap of one Efe Daniel Umukoro. Vanguard gathered that the suspects were arrested by members of the State Anti-Kidnapping Committee at Abraka. The state’s House of Assembly had set up …

A sports bar in Ghana has offered its customers premier league themed burgers. The Honeysuckle in East Legon, Accra offered various burgers ranging in names like Special One, Sergeant Pep, Normal One, Godfather, Le Professeur. The names of the burgers corresponded to the nicknames of managers the burger was themed after. Special …

An Australian reptile handler has proposed to his girlfriend using a crocodile as a witness inside a park’s crocodile enclosure. The Reptile Park posted a video of the proposal on Facebook, featuring “Elvis”, the 14-foot croc. ABC News reported Billy Collett calling his girlfriend Siobhan Oxley, whom he introduced as “the …