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Justin Bieber, reportedly urinated in his jail cell after his arrest in Miami for DUI, drag-racing and driving with an invalid license in late January, and it was all caught on camera! Miami police previously released a video showing a visibly frustrated Bieber being frisked at a Miami station and begging for it to stop. This as-yet-unreleased new video allegedly shows a drunken Bieber stumbling around his prison cell on January 23, before taking a piss. This isn't the first time Bieber has been caught urinating in inappropriate places. Last July, Bieber was seen relieving himself in a mop bucket at a New York City diner. And just last month, Bieber was spotted marking his territory in Colorado. The 19-year-old pop star splashed his initials into the snow in yellow font, all the while nearby residents watched in disbelief. Bieber's lawyers are scrambling to have the release of the footage (and any additional material related to Bieber's arrest) blocked before they have the chance to see it. While Bieber doesn't really seem bothered with urinating in public, the deed is illegal in all 50 states, so it looks like he may be facing even more legal troubles.

PUERTO PRINCESA, PHILIPPINES — Quite a few Asian countries call themselves the Pearl of the Orient, but never has the Philippines deserved the moniker more than now, with the discovery of this huge gem. The Puerto Princesa Tourism Office in Palawan recently unveiled a monstrous pearl measuring 67 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide and weighing 34 kilograms. A tourism officer posted the photos of the pearl on Facebook, with a call for gemologists to certify its authenticity so that the city can use it to vy for the title of world’s biggest natural giant clam pearl. The current record holder is the Pearl of Lao Tzu, which weighs 6.4 kilograms. According to Palawan News, the monstrous pearl was turned over to the tourism office for safekeeping by a local fisherman. The man found the priceless gem in the waters off Palawan a decade ago, discovering it inside a giant clam that got stuck on his boat’s anchor. He had no idea how much it was worth, and just kept it under his bed as a good luck charm. The pearl is reportedly valued at $100 million.

BALI, INDONESIA — The Mount Agung volcano in Bali, Indonesia is expected to erupt. Indonesian officials have marked several danger zones for a potential Mount Agung eruption and have evacuated over 75,000 people in the past days. According to the Guardian, hundreds of tremors have been noted near the volcano each day. If this continues, experts expect an eruption is imminent. The most deadly threat resulting from it would be pyroclastic flows, a superheated killer gas that lays waste to everything in its path. The gas is laden with volcanic matter such ash and rocks and can travel up to 450 miles per hour.

BEIJING — Luhu the cat is sad. So sad in fact, she’s been dubbed the “saddest cat in the world” by the Internet. Luhu lives in Beijing with her human caregiver Maggie Liu and two older feline brothers, but experts say neither of these facts explain Luhu’s sadness. This cat is like a furball of pure sorrow. Maggie claims that despite the perpetual look of misery on Luhu’s face, she’s actually a well-adjusted, active kitty … But that’s what you’d expect her to say. To us however, it’s obvious something is wrong because no cat has ever looked this sad. Maggie has 40,000 Instagram followers checking out her thousands of pictures of Luhu and her siblings, but most of Luhu’s fans seem content to just stare into her eyes of sorrowful abyss. We want action! Someone somewhere needs to stop making this cat so sad! #stopmakingtheworldssaddestcatsad !

There’s something weird happening in the sleepy Japanese mountain hamlet of Nagoro. Deaths, a declining national birthrate and depopulation have seen countryside communities like it whither. For years, the young have been abandoning villages like Nagoro, heading for the cities in search of better job opportunities, acutely aware that whatever dreams they have will surely fade and die were they to remain. But dreams often give way to the cruel realities of life. Some the of the young people may turn to a life of prostitution, servicing drunken salarymen doing their best to avoid neurotic wives and emotionally distant children.Today Nagaro is home to a lonely number of just 35 survivors — those who have neither the means or wish to leave. Their only company, a growing legion of canvas mannequins who outnumber the living three-to-one. These dolls are the work of Tsukimi Ayano, a 65-year-old woman who has returned to Nagoro to care for her elderly father, having moved to Osaka decades ago. Tsukimi is one of the town’s youngest residents. “They bring back memories,” she says of the scarecrows which leer at visitors from unchanging vantage points. Their dead eyes seeing your every move; their strange, unnatural poses making you feel ill at ease. “That old lady used to come and chat and drink tea. That old man used to love to drink sake and tell stories. It reminds me of the old times, when they were still alive and well, she told a reporter from the Associated Press. There is little sign Nagoro’s population will ever be replenished. It is a museum honoring a better time when town’s like it buzzed with activity. For now, its only nre residents are the product of the mind and hands of an elderly woman caring for her father.

Meet the Toronto zoo’s newest and cutest inhabitant, this baby polar bear cub. He was born on November 9th, 2013 and he will one day grow up to be an unstoppable killing machine. Aw, look at his little paws. The Toronto zoo’s mama bear, Aurora, gave birth to three baby bear cubs on the same day, each one pinker and blinder than the next. Although zookeepers said this cub initially exhibited signs of weakness, within 48 hours, his two brothers were dead, making this cute little guy the ultimate survivor. As is natures way, this adorable ball of fluff will one day experience the insatiable urge to sink his fangs into a zoo handler’s throat, rip out his esophagus and spray red carnage all over the painted white fiberglass glaciers of his enclosure. Can you believe how cute his little button nose is? I just wanna squeeze him! Polar bears are unique among the land animals because they are the only species that will actively and deliberately hunt humans for food. In Norway, inhabitants of the snowy north live in constant fear that a polar bear will stalk them in the blinding snow, hold them down with one paw and chew off their faces, while horrified townsfolk run for safety, forever scarred by the image of their loved one’s skinless face screeching for help. Indeed, the polar bear is such a formidable killer that it cannot be brought down by a normal assault rifle or handgun. Residents of the arctic take high powered rifles with them wherever they go. For only a massive hunting rifle has the power to crush through the polar bear’s thick skull, and only then if you see it before it sees you. The most amazing thing about polar bears is how adult males will eat cubs of their own species that don’t belong to them. Even as the polar bear teeters on the edge of extinction, the brutal facts of life in the arctic mean this huggable baby cub will only be seen as future competition to any adult male which turns his gaze upon it. And one day, when he grows up, the Toronto Zoo’s little cub will be a remorseless killer too! Awwww!

ADEL, GEORGIA — A teenage girl from Georgia got a tingle down her spine when she checked her photos from a recent fishing trip. Haley Ogletree, 13, was taking a selfie last week when she was photobombed by a ghost, according to a Facebook post by her mom, Jessica. Haley and her brother Kolton had gone fishing with their grandparents to celebrate the boy’s birthday. According to their mom, Kolton caught the biggest fish, like EVER!, so maybe the ghost was happy for him. Seems like the photobomb phantom appeared when Kolton was packing the fishing tackle box back in the trunk. Haley’s mom said her son didn’t notice anyone standing there and there were no other people around that day. So there couldn’t possibly be any other explanation for how the man appeared in the photo. Mmmm ... could there?

PUZI, TAIWAN — A young man in Taiwan learned about the dangers of kitchen equipment the hard way when his hand was pulled into a meat grinder. According to Apple Daily, the 22-year-old male employee, surnamed Chen, had just graduated from culinary school and recently joined his uncle’s staff at a turkey rice restaurant. In a demonstration of good hygiene, Chen always made sure to wear gloves whenever he handled meat in the kitchen. However, it was Chen’s adherence to health codes that may have cost him the use of his hand. On May 18th, Chen was preparing some turkey meat when a glove he was wearing became caught inside the meat grinder.The meat grinder relentlessly continued to pull the rest of the glove, with Chen’s hand inside of it, farther into the machine. Chen’s uncle immediately unplugged the machine and called firefighters to help. To avoid doing more damage to Chen’s hand, the responders opted not to dismantle the machine there, and brought him — with the meat grinder still attached — to the hospital.A specialist helped disassemble the meat grinder, but no word yet on whether doctors were able to save Chen’s hand.

SPACE— An asteroid will fly close to Earth on Thursday Oct. 12, according to NASA. Asteroid 2012 TC4 is on a trajectory to fly close to Earth on Thursday, October 12. That day, according to Space.com, the space rock will be around 27,000 miles from Earth. That’s eight times closer to the planet than the moon. Astronomers are excited to investigate asteroid 2012 TC4 because it’s around the same proportions as the one that hit a Russian town in 2013.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — A new study suggests Yellowstone’s supervolcano could become active in just a few decades if the right conditions developed. Arizona State University researchers analyzed minerals in ancient fossilized ash from the most recent mega-eruption and believe the supervolcano became active after two injections of magma into the reservoir underneath the caldera, National Geographic reported. They found the minerals showed that the critical changes in temperature and composition built up over a few decades. Geologists previously thought it took centuries for supervolcanoes to go active. Supervolcanoes have an eruption magnitude of 8 on the Volcano Explosivity Index (VEI) and spit out more than 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles) of hot rock and ash, according to Science Alert. For now Yellowstone’s supervolcano hasn’t shown any indications of an eruption, although experts agree there’s no way of knowing when the next blast will occur.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. on Friday ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to review claims by advocacy groups that shrinking airline seats have created a potential safety hazard for passengers. Judge Patricia Millett rejected the FAA's argument that seat size was not a factor in getting off the plane in an emergency.“This is the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat. As many have no doubt noticed, aircraft seats and the spacing between them have been getting smaller and smaller, while American passengers have been growing in size,” Millett wrote in her ruling. According to advocacy group Flyers Rights, the average width of airplane seats has decreased from 18.5 inches in the early 2000s to 17 inches by 2005. The average seat pitch, meaning the distance between seat rows, has declined from an average of 35 inches to 31 inches, and is even as low as 28 inches on some airlines.Under the current FAA regulation airlines are free to determine the size and space of seats but the arrangement must allow all passengers and crew to evacuate within 90 seconds. American Airlines plans to order new Boeing 737 jets with just 29 inches of seat pitch in the last three rows in economy in order to make room for an extra row of premium seats towards the front of the plane, according to the Guardian.

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Scientists at the Berkeley Lab in California have developed technology that can convert carbon dioxide into ethanol using sunlight.The research was published in the journal, Energy & Environmental Science. The study employed low amounts of solar energy in a copper-silver nanocoral cathode to produce the ethanol. “Reducing CO2 to a hydrocarbon end product like ethanol or ethylene can take up to 5 volts, start to finish,” explained the study’s lead author Gurudayal in a Berkeley Lab news release. “Our system reduced that by half while maintaining the selectivity of products.”

ANTARCTICA — A massive iceberg broke apart from of the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica this week. The break has scientists worried that Pine Island Glacier’s behavior might be changing, reported Weather.com. The area that broke apart is said to be 4.5 times the size of New York’s Manhattan island. Loss of ice from the glacier contributes to a 1 millimeter rise in the world’s oceans, every eight years.

China successfully conducted a flight test this week of its DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon. The hypersonic vehicle was launched atop a ballistic missile from the Wuzhai missile test center in Shanxi Province and glided to an impact range in western China, several thousand miles away. The test was tracked by U.S. intelligence agencies, according to the report, which cites unnamed defense officials. The DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle is believed to be highly maneuverable and capable of flying at speeds of between Mach 5, and Mach 10, or between five and 10 times the speed of sound. It is thought to be under development to carry both nuclear and non-nuclear payloads. Because of the DF-ZF’s speed and maneuverability, intercepting it would be difficult for current U.S. defenses, which rely on satellite and ground radar to track and intercept missiles that travel along a predictable flight path. Richard Fisher, senior fellow at the Virginia-based International Assessment and Strategy Center, told the Taipei Times that the vehicle could potentially be used to attack U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. This latest launch is the sixth time China has conducted a flight test on the DF-ZF in the past year, the Washington Free Beacon reports. According to the 2015 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review report, the DF-ZF could be deployed by 2020. The DF-ZF was previously known as the Wu-14.

China now has more submarine vessels than the United States. According to top U.S. Navy Admiral Joseph Mulloy, China has also simultaneously increased the geographic reach of the submarines and the length of time they stay at sea. The United States Department of Defense’s last annual report to Congress put China’s submarine count at 60, although current estimates suggest that the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s submarine program has since grown. Compared to the U.S. Navy’s 71 vessels and the Russian Navy’s 63, China now has around 80 vessels (including experimental vessels), and continues to develop more. Mulloy told a congressional subcommittee though, that China’s submarine quality is still “inferior.” While China’s submarines have been regularly patrolling the Philippine Sea, they are now frequently sailing through Southeast Asia and into the Indian Ocean. Deployment times have also increased with China now keeping vessels at sea for as long as 95 days. China has both nuclear-powered submarines and diesel-powered vessels, and the East Asian nation continues to develop and test ballistic-missile submarines. According to U.S. naval officers, China has yet to deploy vessels carrying armed nuclear missiles, although it has launched several tests. According to the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, these submarine-launched missiles, if fired from East Asia, will have a range that encompases Hawaii and Alaska. In the past few years, China has made no effort to hide its desire to increase its military footprint and capability in the region. Besides a growing submarine program, Beijing has also invested in other vessels and technology including anti-ship missiles, larger aircraft carriers and fast attack craft.

A terrified British family fled their home after hundreds of spiders swarmed out from a bunch of bananas. Jamie and Crystal Roberts in Staffordshire were horrified when they found the creepy crawlies in the bananas bought from a local shop. Jamie initially had spotted white patches covering the fruit and assumed it was harmless mold. But when he took a closer look, he realised the bananas were infested with a spider nest containing hundreds of spiders. Jamie fled his home with his wife and two children on the advice of the pest controllers. The house was fumigated and the family was allowed to go back after three days. The spiders have not been officially identified but they are believed to be the world's most poisonous Brazilian Wandering Spider.

KENNETT SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA — Police across the U.S. are urging parents to check all uneaten Halloween candy after complaints were made throughout the country about foreign objects found inside of them. A Philadelphia man that was checking the candy his children acquired while trick-or-treating on Saturday night when he discovered a sewing needle inside a Twix chocolate candy bar, Kennett Square police said. On Sunday afternoon, a 12-year-old boy turned in a Twix candy bar that also had a needle embedded in it to the police, according to police. A total of five Twix candy bars given out to four different children ranging from 7-12 years old on Saturday in the Stenning Hills area around South Union Street and West South Street were found with needles inside. Just before Halloween on October 24, an Ohio girl reportedly found an object inside her Snickers candy bar. When police examined the chocolate bar via X-Ray, they discovered a disposable razor lodged inside, WBNS reports. Needles were also reported inside a piece of a piece of Twizzlers candy in Maryland, Salisbury Police said. A full blister pack of medication was found inside a child's candy bag on Saturday. According to Lloydminster Royal Canadian Mounted police, since November 1, authorities have received five calls regarding pills lodged inside candy in Lloydminster, Alberta. No injuries have been reported. Police are investigating whether the candy was intentionally tampered with before being given to children, or if the items were placed inside them during the manufacturing process.

ARLINGTON, TEXAS — A Texas criminal’s crime spree ended with a nasty Halloween surprise Tuesday night after breaking into the home of Arlington man Scott Hackney as he was carving jack-o-lanterns with his daughter. Suspect Buford Boone’s crazy evening began at a Jet Express gas station on Little Road where suspects said he was jumping on car hoods before taking off in a stolen car. Reports said he then stole a tankful of gas from a nearby Exxon station. Before crashing the vehicle, attempting to steal another one and then taking off on foot across Interstate 20 toward Hackney’s house on Fort Hunt Drive. Hackney, who was out on the back porch carving pumpkins with his 7-year old daughter, was alerted to Boone’s presence by his dogs. He went inside to find Boone rifling through his wife’s purse, possibly in search of his truck keys, and challenged him. The scuffle moved to outside the front door, where Hackney stabbed Boone in the back and then held him down until the police arrived. Boone was arrested and taken to hospital for treatment. He has since been charged with car theft and robbery.

PLANET EARTH — Planet X, aka Nibiru, is going to smash Earth in September 2017. That’s the theory put forward by conspiracy theorist David Meade. Mr Meade cites science and the bible to back up his Planet X claims, but NASA says it’s all a hoax.

An Atlanta family is mourning the loss of their pet German Shepherd after it was killed protecting the family from gunfire in Atlanta on Friday afternoon. At least three kids were in the family’s Chevy Suburban when another driver got a bad case of road rage. The raging driver followed the family into the parking lot of a strip mall on Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard. “They just rolled right up,” one of the victims told WXIA. “They pulled a gun out and started clapping.”Living up to the “man’s best friend” title, the dog took a bullet while protecting the family. Police are still looking for the gunman who drove off in a blue-grey Ford Taurus. When the family opened the door, the fatally-wounded protective pooch ran off. He was caught on this surveillance footage hobbling around the back side of the strip mall but later succumbed to his injuries.

Surveillance footage posted online shows a family cat rushing to the aid of the family’s four-year old son as he is attacked by a savage dog. Jeremy Triantafilo, was playing innocently outside the family home in Bakersfield, California, when a neighbors dog crept up on him and sank its teeth into his lower leg. As the dog dragged the distressed boy down the driveway, Tara the family cat arrived to save Jeremy, barging into the dog and scaring him away as the boy’s mother ran to help him. Pictures at the end of the video show a nasty bite mark in the boy’s leg and the wounds after they were stitched. Reports added that the dog is now in quarantine and will be euthanized in a few days time.

MEXICO CITY — Images of an adorable Mexican Navy rescue dog named Frida have gone viral on Twitter.

MUSCAT, OMAN — A small private jet miraculously survived after it was flipped over and plunged 10,000 feet after getting caught in turbulence from a passing superjumbo jet. According to a recent report in the Aviation Herald, the Bombardier Challenger 604 had nine passengers on board and was flying over the Arabian Sea from the Maldives to Abu Dhabi at around 8:40 a.m. on Jan. 7 when it encountered an Emirates Airbus A380 en route from Dubai to Sydney. As the private jet flew underneath the double-decker Airbus, it was hit by the much larger plane’s wake turbulence. The turbulence flipped the small jet over five times, subjecting those inside to strong G-forces and injuring several of them. The crew used “raw muscle force” to manually stabilize the jet, restart the engines and divert the flight to Muscat in Oman for an emergency landing. Several passengers were taken to hospital for treatment, one with serious injuries. The private jet, operated by German carrier MHS Aviation, suffered such extensive damage that it had to be written off. Germany’s Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation is leading an investigation into the incident.

A Chinese housewife bought some tangyuan (sticky rice dumplings) at a local supermarket in Guangzhou. After cooking them she found a strange substance floating on the surface. She suspected the unknown white material might be paraffin wax. Unknown to the woman her daughter ate the tangyuan after returning from school and then vomited. The housewife went back to the supermarket and complained to the manager, but the manager said the manufacuter should be responsible for the product.

Evacuated Tube Transport is an airless, frictionless, maglev-like form of transportation which is safer, cheaper and quieter than trains or airplanes. Six-person capsules travel in the tubes and can reach a maximum speed of 6,500 km/h, and provide 50 times more transportation per kwh. A tube can travel from New York to Beijing in two hours, and make a round-the-world trip in just six hours.