Ryan Kitchin, a 19 years old teen from Midlothian, scooped more than £50,000 after finding a winning lottery ticket in his bedroom. Ryan plans to use this money to pay off the loan on his car and take his mother on a much-needed holiday.

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Scientists say that injecting stem cells during a kidney transplant could beat kidney rejection and by that remove the need for a lifetime of drugs to suppress the immune system.

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Last week the environment ministry announced that after only 50 of the last West African giraffes were recorded in 1996, now there are over 300 living in the wild only in southwestern Niger.

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Bob biggs, 69 years old  was hiking along California river when he spotted a bear with her cub, he looked at them for a while and moved along when suddenly a mountain lion attacked him, started to shake bob when Mama bear suddenly arrived, grabbing the neck of the mountain lion and tearing it down to the ground.

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Amazon decided to remove whale meat products from its Japanese site. The UK-based environmental investigation agency (EIA) accused Amazon of hypocrisy after founding almost 150 whale products for sale on the site.

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Robert George,  a 40 years old guy from Chicago northern suburb,  jumped into a frozen pond with a rope around him to rescue a boy after 4 kids had fallen through the thin ice.

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3 new sanctuaries has been declared in Bangladesh to help protect the 2 subspecies of the south Asian river dolphin – the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) and the Irrawaddy River dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor).

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There are already 10,000 veterans working at G.E., and the company is now committing itself to hire 5,000 more, over the next 5 years.

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