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A 640-lbs man and his 450-lbs wife had a rather unusual accident Tuesday night as the floor of their apartment collapsed during a particularly intense sexual intercourse, causing the couple to fall three stories lower. Michael Davis and Theresa Walker from Liverpool were having sex in their bedroom on the third floor of an apartment building when the structure collapsed. The couple and their bed fell through three floors before bursting through a wall and ending up in a laundry room in the basement of the building. Emergency services were rapidly called on the site and they were able to extract the unlucky lovers from their uncomfortable position. Miraculously, the couple suffered only light injuries and no other residents of the building were injured as almost half of the 250-year old building collapsed. Tom Watson, another resident of the building, claims the accident was predictable and could have been avoided. “This couple had very loud sex a few times a week and the entire s...

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Mass graves that authorities say could contain more than 2,000 bodies have been discovered in Rwanda nearly a quarter-century after the country’s genocide, and further graves are being sought nearby. The new discovery is being called the most significant in a long time in this East African nation that is still recovering from the 1994 killings of more than 800,000 people. Some Rwandans are shocked and dismayed that residents of the community outside the capital, Kigali, where the mass graves were found kept quiet about them for so many years. “Those who participated in the killing of our relatives don’t want to tell us where they buried them. How can you reconcile with such people?” asked a tearful France Mukantagazwa. She told The Associated Press she lost her father and other relatives in the genocide and believes their bodies are in the newly found graves. The discovery of the graves in Gasabo district came just days after Rwanda marked 24 years since the...

  The Institute for Energy Studies (IES) is predicting a hike in fuel prices this month.“Guided by the fundamental indicators such as rise in price of Gasoline, Gasoil and Brent crude on the international oil market, the country’s fuel stock as well as the fair-stability of the country’s local currencyagainst the U.S. Dollar; the Institute for Energy Security (IES) sees fuel prices primed to rise again on the local market by up to 2.5%,” said the Energy think-tank in its review of April 2018 First pricing-window. “This imminent price increase may be averted by an intervention from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) if it decides to trigger the Price Stabilization mechanism in the second Pricing-window for April 2018,” it added. Below is the full statement FUEL PRICES TO SHOOT UP AGAIN REVIEW OF APRIL 2018 FIRST PRICING-WINDOW Local Fuel Market Performance Over the last two weeks, consumers of fuel have had to pay more for petroleum products purchased at the pump. As projec...