YouTuber finds ‘best evidence yet’ of bases on Mars

A truth-seeking YouTuber says he has found the “best evidence yet” that there are underground bases on Mars. Tyler Glockner, of YouTube channel secureteam10, posted a discovery of “alien bases” on Google Earth yesterday. “This validates the long-held theory that there is without a doubt underground activity happening on the Red Planet,” he said.

Roofer hospitalised after coin-swallowing trick goes awry

A man ended up in hospital when his party trick of swallowing a £1 coin went wrong. Normally, 22-year-old Greig Irvine waits for the coin to pass through his digestive system, but this time the £1 coin got stuck in his gullet. “‘I ended up going to A&E on Sunday and spent two days there,” he said. “I felt so guilty because there are people there that actually needed help rather than me being stupid.”

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German circus replaces animals with holograms

A German circus has scrapped real-life animals in its performances and replaced them with holograms. Circus Roncalliuses uses 3D holographic images of elephants, horses and even a goldfish. Animal Defenders International said: “This is the future of circus — a performance everyone can enjoy and for which intelligent, sentient beings are not used and depicted as objects of entertainment.”