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A German woman is accused of murdering a lookalike she found on Instagram in an elaborate attempt to fake her own death. The alleged perpetrator — identified only as 23-year-old Sharaban K. — killed beauty blogger Khadidja O., also 23, in Ingolstadt, Germany last August, according to investigators. Khadidja O. had been brutally stabbed more than 50 times, with her body left on the back seat of Sharaban K.’s Mercedes. Sharaban K. and an accomplice — identified as her boyfriend Sheqir K.— subsequently went into hiding. When the body was found, police traced the car’s registration to Sharaban K.’s family....

When the blood-covered body of a young woman was found last August in a parked Mercedes in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, reports initially identified the victim as Sharaban K, a Munich-based 23-year-old beautician with Iraqi roots. Even though some members of Sharaban K’s family had identified the body, an autopsy report the next day raised questions over its identity. The victim was eventually named as Khadidja O, an Algerian beauty blogger from Heilbronn in the neighbouring state of Baden-Württemberg, also 23. With long black straight hair, a similar complexion and heavy makeup, the two women looked “strikingly alike”, police said, leading...

From sexual harassment accusations to some erratic behavior around his intent to purchase Twitter , some longtime fans of Tesla boss Elon Musk are wondering if he's as clever as he's previously seemed. Musk has built a massive social media following on his dedication to innovation, free speech, and voicing his opinions as loudly and consistently as possible, and has gained a legion of fanboys because of it. But while many believe Musk some kind of futuristic tech prophet, some Americans are becoming disillusioned with him these days. However, if Musk even feels down in the dumps about this and...

A man who shares a strong resemblance to Brian Laundrie has taken to social media to clear his name as the search for Gabby Petito's fiancé continues. The unnamed man, who is of similar build and is both balding and bearded, began posting videos to TikTok under the handle @notbrianlaundrie after a viral video surfaced mistakenly claiming to show Laundrie in a nightclub. Laundrie has been named as a person of interest in the disappearance of Petito, with multiple police departments and sheriff's offices across the country receiving information related to the whereabouts of the 23-year-old. Several individuals have also...

In prison for a crime he adamantly denied committing, Richard Anthony Jones repeatedly heard from others that there was another prisoner who looked just like him. Not only were they doppelgangers, but Jones was told that he and the other man shared the same first name. Jones never ran across the man, but the lawyers he passed the information on to began digging into his case and came to the conclusion that Jones was indeed an innocent man. On Wednesday, they made their case to a Johnson County judge, and on Thursday Jones walked free after serving nearly 17 years...

All eyes in the crowd fell on the supreme commander of the Korean People's Army. He emerged from the subway in one of this city's busiest nightlife areas with his trademark black suit and closely cropped hair. He hadn't lost any weight. "That's Kim Jong Un!" somebody shouted. Not quite. The reviled North Korean dictator, it turns out, has a doppelganger. He was soon surrounded by Friday night revelers holding up their smartphones and giggling in disbelief. Several rubbed his belly as they posed for their friends.

Two women from Ireland, who are spitting images of each other, freaked out when they came face-to-face for the first time. Through the power of social media, Niamh Geaney, 26, found her doppelganger, Karen Branigan, 29.

The History Channel is refuting accusations that the character portraying Satan in their hit miniseries “The Bible” bears a striking resemblance to President Obama. Television viewers took to Twitter and Facebook Sunday night to point out the similarities between Moroccan actor Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni and the Commander-in-Chief. “That resemblance is uncanny,” wrote one viewer on my Facebook page. “It looks like President Obama 20 years from now.” The cable network released a statement to Huffington Post refuting the comparisons and noted that Ouazanni has been portraying satanic characters long before President Obama was elected. “History Channel has the highest respect...

ABC NEWS: It’s Obama vs. Obama As Democratic Convention Begins. “President Obama has met his own worst enemy, and his name is Barack Obama. As the Democratic National Convention gets underway this week in North Carolina — a state that epitomized the Obama wave of 2008 but has slipped steadily from the Democrats’ grasp since then — memories of the hope and expectations the president embodied four years ago loom over the gathering.” UPDATE: The GOP agrees: We’ve Heard It All Before.

A German opera singer has been arrested on accusations that she murdered her husband and then had an accomplice impersonate him to sign all his possessions over to her. Waltraud Hill, 55, is alleged to have approached up to 10 men to find a suitable doppelganger, then used a make-up artist to disguise him as her dead husband Hermann, UK newspaper the Telegraph reported. The soprano has been charged with murder and fraud over the death of her husband, 71, a wealthy former fisherman. Detectives interviewed 7000 people during the investigation, finding eight who admitted to have been approached by...

A "shy" photographer in Indonesia is in great demand because of his resemblance to the new US President, Barack Obama. Ilham Anas, 34, is already a celebrity in Jakarta, where Mr Obama once lived, but his fame is spreading. He has appeared on Indonesia's premier TV talk show, done an advertisement as Mr Obama, and received other marketing offers from companies in the region. The real Barack Obama went to school in Jakarta in the late 1960s, when his classmates knew him as Barry. Mr Anas told Reuters news agency: "I was in the airport in Malaysia in transit and...

High-tech analysis of the video recently released by Iraq has allowed me to conclusively identify the body-double portraying Saddam Hussein: