Postcards from the past

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Bodybuilder with 25in biceps dances with death injecting fatal filler

Smugglers cram cockatoos into plastic bottles to get them through customs

The weirdest sites on earth seen from space

The abandoned beauty of Italy's 20,000 ghost towns

European security services uncover ‘ISIL recruitment forms’

A pitiful end for the animals of Georgia's flooded zoo

Gay Pride march in Istanbul turns violent

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Hawaiian volcano explodes as crater wall collapses causing flaming lava lake blast

Russian WW2 parade: A tank-spotter's guide

Syrian factory worker describes 'hell' of Aleppo barrel bomb attack

Police investigate grisly find in remote Russian town

Monster 4.3-metre saltwater crocodile that stalked boats

After the apocalypse

Charles's charity cashes in on Charlotte

That's what you call a houseboat!

Inside the secret world of the Geisha

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's lavish New Orleans mansion

Back from the USSR: Soviet cars earn another look

See you in Hell

The 'exploited' girls paid as little as £25 for your £300 'Russian virgin hair' extensions

Horrific moment live goat is swallowed by 10ft python in Indian nature reserve

Flying car crashes with inventor inside during test-flight

Cornwall's Robinson Crusoe retreat

See Pictures of a Young Vladimir Putin

Unfortunate man is gored straight in the bottom

The children hunted because of their skin

What IS this scary looking beast which can chew through its steel cage?

The world's most dangerous prison

Russian army’s rocket launch test goes terribly wrong

Jaw-dropping life of Zulu King is blamed for sparking South African bloodshed