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Free-runner leaps between scales Bangkok's 600ft Ghost Tower in hair-raising stunt

The GoPro footage was recorded by Oliver Nordin in January after he and a friend snuck past security to gain access to the abandoned skyscraper in Thailand's capital.




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Married At First Sight's Hayley spent $4,000 on a Bangkok boob job

She flaunted her sensational bikini body during her honeymoon with 'husband' David Cannon on Thursday's episode of Married At First Sight.




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Puppy looks like an evil movie villain due to his raised black eyebrow 

Lucky, the mixed two-year-old Chihuahua, was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and with an incredibly prominent, jet-black, raised eyebrow over his eye, he's often mistaken for a Disney villain.




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Reveller, 22, is left with burns after spilling a flaming tequila shot down her face in Thailand

Kamonwan Angsumadisron, 22, was drinking with friends in Phitsanulok, Thailand, when she spilled a 'sugarburn' shot down her face and was left with burns.




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Thailand's health minister says Western tourists should be kicked out

Anutin Charnvirakul's outburst came as Thailand faced steep losses over a drop in visitors from China. The death toll in China from the coronavirus has risen to 811.




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Skydiver plunges to his death in horror accident after parachute `fails to fully open'

Stefan Eiriksson Andersen, 30, from Denmark, jumped from the plane after it took off from an airfield in the Sri Racha district of Chon Buri, eastern Thailand on Saturday afternoon.




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Dead 'Western' tourist is found floating in the sea with a rock tied around his neck off of Thailand

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The man, whose nationality is not yet known, was found yesterday afternoon. Shocked locals called police in the crime-ridden Sin City resort.




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Ricky Hatton tells fans he is in good health after he was pictured with prisoner 'with coronavirus' 

Ricky Hatton has reassured fans that they can talk to him after he was pictured with a 'drug dealer' in Thailand who was struck down by coronavirus. Hatton says it was 'several years ago'.




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'Drug dealer extradited from Thailand collapses in Oxfordshire jail with suspected coronavirus'

Mark Rumble, 31, from Oxfordshire, was sent back to the UK from Thailand to face charges of a conspiracy to supply class A drugs and collapsed in prison days later.




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Ex-TOWIE star Harry Derbidge's fiancé reveals he has been tested for the killer coronavirus

Dean Rowland, who is thought to have spent two weeks 'exploring' the coronavirus-hit nation, posted a picture to Instagram of him wearing a facemask at Basildon University Hospital.




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Two British prisoners sent home from Thailand do NOT have coronavirus, tests confirm 

Tests have revealed that Mark Rumble (pictured, with boxer Ricky Hatton) and another prisoner at HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire do not have coronavirus.




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A&E medic has coronavirus: Virus fear grips UK as NHS hospital worker is among eight with deadly bug

The medic treated a 'small number' of patients at Worthing Hospital in West Sussex (pictured) on February 4 and 5 before they became unwell and 'self-isolated'.




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Snack-happy elephants reach out to gorge themselves on sugar cane

Two elephants were travelling through Nakhon Sawan, northern Thailand, on a heavy-load lorry when it stopped at a red light on Saturday. They reached out to grab bunches of sugar cane.




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NHS 111 is NOT asking if patients with coronavirus symptoms have been to China

One of the UK's top doctors' unions, the British Medical Association, has reportedly complained to the NHS and Department of Health that the helpline tells potentially contagious patients to go to a GP.




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Twenty Americans with 'abnormal' health conditions on cruise ship spooked authorities

The ship, MS Westerdam, has 650 Americans on board and has finally been allowed to anchor down in the port of Sihanoukville this afternoon.




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Opera-singing bodybuilder says he will give himself up over murder of Brit dad in Thailand

Roger Bullman, 54, from Oslo, in Norway, went on the run after killing British IT expert Amitpal Singh Bajaj, 34, in his Phuket hotel room on August 21 following a row over his yodelling on the balcony.




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Worker has to pull out 50lbs of dung from constipated elephant's rear

The 60-year-old elephant, Boon Peng, was suffering abdominal pains and struggling to walk at his enclosure in Chiang Mai.




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The Maldives takes the top spot in Kuoni's luxury destinations chart - but Bali is on the rise again

Tourism operator Kuoni has released its top 10 best-selling luxury destinations for 2020, and there are a few surprises on the list...




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US passengers disembark Westerdam cruise ship and get Valentine's Day kiss from Cambodia's PM

Prime Minister Hun Sen presented red roses and embraced hundreds as they joyously poured from the vessel at the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville on Thursday.




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Female spectator is gored at a bullfight in Thailand

Khun Nam, 57, required first aid for an inch-long cut to her face after being charged by a bull that had broken out of the ring and into the crowd during a fight in southern Thailand on Monday.




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Heartwarming moment teenage boys dig trapped puppy out of a 3ft burrow after hearing its whimpers

A fluffy Bangkeaw puppy went missing soon after it was born in Yasothon, north eastern Thailand. It was rescued by teenage boys after burrowing three feet into the ground.




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Man is electrocuted after using headphones connected to his charging mobile phone in Thailand

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Supakhet Saraboon, 35, was discovered sprawled across his bed in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, central Thailand, on Monday night.




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American tourist is left with an agonizing foot-long chemical burn

Amanda Drish-Adolf, 30, decided to get a large intricate Mandala-style design while visiting Bangkok during an action-packed 'bucket list' trip to Thailand with husband Nick.




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Lorry loses its cargo of cement on a bend and engulfs oncoming car in a cloud of dust

Dashcam footage filmed in Krabi, southern Thailand, shows how the truck turns a corner, throwing cement all over the road, and causing a huge cloud of dust to cover a woman's car.




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Tui cruise customers claim they are being forced to go to 'Coronavirus Land'

Customers set to go on Tui's Marella Cruises trip to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore have pleaded to have their money refunded but the travel firm says the cruise will 'sail as planned.'




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Starbucks is rapped over £100,000 for controversial transgender charity

Every time a customer buys a 'Mermaids' biscuit at the counter, the US coffee chain will donate 50p to the British charity of the same name. It has also produced an ad lauding its cafes as 'safe spaces'.




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British boy, three, drowns at Thai waterpark after falling into the flume slide 'landing area'

Bobby Watson (pictured right as a baby) died on Sunday afternoon after falling into a pool at the bottom of a water slide at a water park in Phuket, Thailand, while on a day out with his parents.




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doyoutravel Jack Morris under fire for his 'dangerous' picture hanging off the edge of a balcony

A travel blogger has come under fire on social media for posing in a 'dangerous' stunt after posting a picture of himself hanging off a hotel balcony in Bangkok, Thailand.




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EastEnders actor Sid Owen's jaw is SHATTERED and SIX teeth are knocked out by a flying golf ball

Actor Sid Owen has undergone emergency surgery on his jaw after a golf ball thwacked him in the face and knocked out six of his teeth.




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British sailor, 70, rescued after three days adrift in his yacht off Thailand

Michael Turner, 70, set sail from the west coast of Phuket on Friday and intended to sail round the coast to Chalong Pier on the south east of the island.




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Lunch to go! Wild elephant stops traffic to teach his son how to steal food from vehicles 

Two elephants stomped onto a road in Chachoengsao, Thailand and started looting food from passing vehicle, causing motorists to stop dead in their tracks.




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EastEnders' Sid Owen unveils aftermath of accident which SHATTERED his jaw and knocked out SIX teeth

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Gory pictures of the actor, 48, unveiled the gruesome aftermath of the golf incident, with huge gaps on one side of his mouth where teeth are now missing




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US tourist and his girlfriend are arrested in Thailand after they were 'caught making porn videos'

American tourist Roderick, 31, and his girlfriend Kata, 22, had been staying illegally in the country for 256 days without a visa.




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Married Chinese couple are found dead after being tied up inside suitcases and thrown into a river

The body of Wang Jun, 30, was found in a black suitcase floating in the Ping river, central Thailand. Police are still searching for his wife Zhu Bing, 28, who is missing.




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US Marines take part in war games exercise that teaches them how to survive in the Thai jungle

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES - The annual Cobra Gold military exercise got underway in Thailand on Tuesday, which saw US troops undergo a series of grueling and garish tasks.




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Monkey is forced to lift 'weights' and do press-ups to entertain tourists

The abused animal, which reportedly had its teeth removed, was secretly recorded by animal rights group, Peta, at a zoo in Phuket, southern Thailand, last month.




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Father whose son drowned at water park claims lifeguards were distracted by slide competition

William Watson, 35, took his family to the Blue Tree Water Park in Phuket, Thailand, on February 23. But just hours later his son, Bobby (pictured), drowned after falling into a plunge pool.




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Family forced into Coronavirus quarantine interviewed through window of Wirral home

A family who were forced into quarantine in their Wirral home over Coronavirus fears have said they feel like 'caged animals' in bizarre interview outside their window on This Morning.




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Chinese students ordered to remain in isolation are actually PARTYING before returning to Australia

Travellers coming from, or transiting through, mainland China have been banned from entering Australia. However, travellers can get around the ban by spending 14 days in another country.




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Love Island's Anna Vakili turns up the heat as she shares sizzling throwback snap from Thailand trip

The former pharmacist, 29, was the picture of confidence as she shared a sizzling throwback snap from her trip to Phuket, Thailand earlier this year.




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Two more cruises are hampered by coronavirus fears

Norway was keeping 1,200 passengers on the Aida Aura (pictured last night) at the port of Haugesund today after fears were raised over two German travellers.




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Pervert is caught on CCTV having SEX with shop's metal shutters in Thailand

The motorcyclist pulled over next to the shop in the early hours of yesterday morning before using a hole in the iron gate to perform the unusual sex act in Chonburi, Thailand.




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Molly-Mae Hague flaunts her incredible figure in a white bikini during sun-soaked Thailand break

The Love Island star, 20, flaunted her incredible figure in a white bikini as she lounged on a swing during sun-soaked Thailand break on Thursday.




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Married At First Sight star Cathy Evans went to Thailand to undergo her $9050 breast enhancement

Married At First Sight star Cathy Evans had a $9048 breast enhancement surgery in Phuket in 2016. 




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Thailand bans cruise liner from docking because of Italian passengers

The Costa Fortuna (file photo) was denied permission to dock on the island of Phuket because 64 people on board had been in Italy in the last 14 days, Thai media said.




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British traveller is blocked from boarding a flight to Thailand and left £1,000 out of pocket

Tina Sibley was stopped at the boarding gate in Madrid by Qatar Airways staff, which told her the stamps of Macchu Picchu made her passport invalid. The British Embassy rubbished the claims.




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Love Island's Molly-Mae Hague sizzles in a black bandeau swimsuit

The former Love Island hopeful, 20, flaunted her incredibly toned figure in yet another sultry snap from Thailand which she uploaded to Instagram on Saturday.




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Welsh couple among 142 Britons on coronavirus plague ship off US coast

Patrick and Kim Maguire were meant to visit Cambodia, Singapore and Thailand but the bug forced them to change their destination. They chose the US as they thought it would be safer.




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Love Island's Molly-Mae Hague flaunts her assets in skimpy bikinis as she soaks up the sun

Love Island's Molly-Mae Hague showcased her ample cleavage in a sizzling frontless playsuit Instagram pic as she continued to soak up the sun during her Thailand break.




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Mother shares her clever stickers trick for getting her kids to eat more fruit and vegetables

A crafty mother has used stickers related to her children's favourite shows and characters to encourage them to eat fruits and vegetables throughout the day.