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WT24 Desk NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO – Detained in a California lockup with hundreds of other immigrants seeking asylum, Duglas Cruz faced a choice, Reuters reports. He could content himself with a jailhouse diet that he said left him perpetually hungry. ...

WT24 Desk A Pennsylvania police department is seeking volunteers willing to “drink hard liquor to the point of inebriation” for a training exercise, according to UPI. The Kutztown Police Department said in a Facebook post it is seeking three volunteers to help ...

WT24 Desk A team of divers has had a close encounter with one of the biggest great white sharks on record – and lived to tell the tale, BBC reports. Some of the divers came so close to the female ...

WT24 Desk A decision by Taiwan’s National Palace Museum to lend a rare calligraphy to Japan’s Tokyo National Museum has sparked outrage across China, BBC reports. On paper it seemed like a straightforward cultural exchange, so why has this prized ...

WT24 Desk US President Donald Trump has put on a fast food feast at the White House, blaming the partial government shutdown for the lack of catering staff, BBC reports. He welcomed the winners of the national college football championship, ...

WT24 Desk Rescuers in southern Spain are trying to find a two-year-old boy who fell down a borehole more than 100m (328ft) deep and just 25cm (10in) wide, BBC reports. The search began on Sunday afternoon and continued at night ...

WT24 Desk Low tides have revealed a relic from World War I — the skeleton of a German U-boat visible again off the coast of northern France. The metal frame of a UC 61 can be seen about 100 meters ...

WT24 Desk THESE jaw-dropping images show the power and stealth of the US Air Force, The Sun reports. From soaring stealth jets, sunlight choppers and an Air Force One flying over the Statue of Liberty this collection represents the best ...

WT24 Desk Jayme Closs, a 13-year-old girl who vanished after her parents were found dead in their northwestern Wisconsin home, has been found alive, the Barron County Sheriff’s Department said, CNN reports. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Department in Wisconsin notified ...

WT24 Desk A medical conference in India set a Guinness World Record by arranging 10,105 sanitary pads in a line to promote menstrual hygiene, UPI reports. Participants in the 62nd All India Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, which began Wednesday, arranged ...