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Korea Future Initiative’s report describes North Korean girls and women aged between 12 and 29 being sold, raped, and exploited online for a global, paying audience. Lei Han/Flickr/Korea Future InitiativeA prostitute in Shanghai, China. The Chinese underworld makes at least $105 million per year from the sexual abuse of North Korean women and girls. International sex trafficking is a big, despicable business all over the world — including in China and North Korea....

Discover 11 of the most shocking ways royals have died, from the Greek King killed by a monkey to the English Conqueror who buckled under his own weight. In fairytales, princes and princesses lived charmed lives that always include a happy ending. But as this list of 11 royal deaths proves, monarchs have met plenty of bizarre ends over the centuries. Some of the royals included here had a fatal interaction with food, like the king who ate too many lampreys, another king who ate too many pastries, and the duke who was drowned in a vat of wine....

Archaeologists were prepping the ancient talayot site to be opened as a museum when they found the invaluable artifact that they believe was deliberately left there as a ceremonial offering. Diario de MallorcaThe sword was found by archaeologists at the Talaiot del Serral de ses Abelles site in the town of Puigpunyent in Mallorca, Spain. It’s one of only 10 swords from the Bronze Age found at the site. A 3,200-year-old sword was recently unearthed on the Spanish island of Mallorca in the town of Puigpunyent....

Source: deviantART Like most stories that have been told and retold for generations, Disney princesses have come a long way since their early days as fairy tales. Fans and artists have also taken liberty with the fictional characters, recreating them in a variety of settings and styles, using every artistic medium under the sun. Which of these Disney princess interpretations do you love most? Annie Leibovitz’s Star-Studded Photography Source: NY Daily...

Whether it’s elephants, pandas, or kangaroos, there’s actually a scientific reason why looking at cute baby animal pictures makes you feel so good. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Lost Baby Koala Rescued By Golden Retriever — And The Photos Are Adorable Vintage Baby Racing Photos That Are Both Adorable And Troubling The Seven Cutest Animals In The World You’ve Never Seen...

These authentic vintage photographs of the American frontier reveal what life was actually like in the “Wild West.” Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 27 Annie Oakley Facts That Prove She Was The Wild West’s Biggest Badass Inside The Life Of Calamity Jane, The Wild West’s Most Notorious Frontierswoman 47 Colorized Old West Photos That Bring The American Frontier To Life...

Evidence shows an undeniable link between bacon and cancer. Bacon might bring you joy, but it also might bring you bowel cancer according to the World Health Organization. Image Source: Flickr Creative Commons/Didriks Bad news, bacon lovers, your favorite breakfast meat may just give you cancer. So confirms a comprehensive survey just published by the Guardian, itself following up on the bombshell report on the matter that you may recall from late 2015....

Movies are as much about moving images as they are sound—which is why Foley artists are so important. Student working on the Foley room of the Vancouver Film School. While director Stanley Kubrick was filming Spartacus, he went to Europe to record combat scenes. He chose to shoot in Spain, and there, just outside of Madrid, he filmed his armies of Romans marching across the country’s flat, dry plains. Thousands of Spanish soldiers paraded in Kubrick’s Roman army, but when the sound arrived back in the U....

Some people are born to sainthood, while others have it thrust upon them whether they like it or not. Such was the case for Saint Veronica of Milan, our first in a series of hagiographies to help you better know a saint. The story of Saint Veronica of Milan begins just like most of the better-written fairy tales. According to Butler’s Lives of the Saints, the young Veronica lived a life of toil in her parents’ cottage near Milan, where she was born around 1445....

While we may have thousands of television options today, people looking for viewing entertainment on Sept. 11, 1928 had just one choice, and this was it. However, it’s easy to forget the steps it took to get us here. Less than a century ago, television was still in its infancy while radio provided all of our dramatic entertainment. That is, until The Queen’s Messenger aired in Sept. 11, 1928. The 40-minute long program was the first drama to ever be broadcast on television, thanks to WGY Television, General Electric’s experimental station based in Schenectady, N....

Days after learning his family had been shipped off to a refugee camp beside 12,000 other Jews, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan bought a gun and snuck into the German embassy in Paris. Herschel Grynszpan was just an angry teenager in a desperate situation, but his one act of violence in 1938 instigated the night largely believed to mark the start of the Holocaust. When Grynszpan killed German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris on November 7, 1938, the Nazis used this young Jewish man’s act of fury as an excuse to unleash their own brand of brutality....

Though he’s the face of the organization, there’s so much more to the Medellín Cartel than just Pablo Escobar. At the height of its power, the Medellin Cartel made roughly $100 million in drug profits a day. They supplied 96 percent of the United State’s cocaine and controlled 90 percent of the global cocaine market. The cartel differed from its smaller counterparts in that it was highly organized, highly influential, and capable of corrupting almost anyone....

The welfare state gets a lot of criticism, but what seldom comes up is how things used to be before programs like SNAP and Section 8 came along. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2015 a full 52.2 million American households participated in some kind of means-tested welfare program. That’s more than 21 percent of the U.S. population, most of whom have children under the age of 18 to take care of....

Best known as Jack Tripper from the hit sitcom “Three’s Company,” John Ritter died of an undetected heart problem in 2003 — and his family blamed his doctors. When actor John Ritter, best known for Three’s Company, died on Sept. 11, 2003, it shocked everyone around him. He was only 54 years old when an undetected flaw in his heart killed him. Getty ImagesJohn Ritter, with co-stars Joyce Dewitt and Suzanne Somers, on the set of Three’s Company....

Samantha Kershner reportedly began a sexual relationship with her father Travis Fieldgrove following a competition over him with her own half-sister. Hall County JailTravis Fieldgrove and Samantha Kershner following their arrests. When Travis Fieldgrove was reunited with the biological daughter he never knew, the pair initially enjoyed a normal parent-child relationship. But then the relationship turned sexual and the two were soon married — and now they’re paying the price....

The discovery of the text written on silk sheds light on the significant advances in medicine that led to the development of acupuncture in ancient China. The History Collection/AlamyA 2,200-year-old Chinese silk text is the oldest-known anatomical chart in the world. Archaeologists have uncovered many unexpected objects from excavating ancient tombs around the world. In 2017, researchers examining the site of a 2,200-year-old Chinese tomb not only found human remains, but they also found what may be the oldest known study chart of the human body....

Mary K. Brown allegedly took a dying patient’s foot without his permission. He told another nurse that he “felt everything.” powerofforever/Getty ImagesSpecial effects makeup depicting the amputated leg of a hospital patient. A criminal complaint recently filed in Spring Valley, Wisconsin accuses a 38-year-old nurse of amputating the foot of a 62-year-old patient against his will — and against a doctor’s orders. As for why she wanted to cut off the patient’s foot, The Washington Post reports, Mary Brown allegedly told her coworkers that her family owned a taxidermy shop — and she wanted to put the appendage on display....

The list of the most polluted cities in the world has Onitsha, Nigeria at the top, followed by many others whose air can literally kill. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 11Motorists queue on Onitsha-Asaba highway. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images 2 of 11A man covers his nose with handkerchief. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images 3 of 11Smoke rise up into the sky from a bonfire....

The poop transplant procedure could be taking on new applications in the wake of a new study. Here’s why this research is so important. Poop transplant vials ready to be administered. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Can a poop transplant save your life? A new study says yes. The study — conducted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and published in Science — suggests that the transplant, or when doctors take microbes from the fecal matter of a healthy donor and insert them into the body of the recipient patient, may have some vital new uses, including treatment for metabolic syndrome (more on that below)....

You’d have to be crazy to let six angry bulls chase you, but that’s exactly what happens at the San Fermin festival. Source: Metro You’d have to be crazy to run 825 meters—more than eight football fields—with a herd of bulls racing beside you. Yet every year, millions of people from around the world gather at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain to watch the encierro, or the running of the bulls....