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The American astronauts who have been stranded in space for seven months have hinted at the toll their unexpected mission is taking. Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, were heard telling NASA bigwigs 'eventually, we want to go home' during a video call on Wednesday. The pair first landed at the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5 and they have been stuck there ever since. Their visit was only supposed to be eight days long. But due to safety concerns, NASA decided to send the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they arrived on back to Earth without anyone inside. In...

A Texas police officer was caught on camera shooting a man 15 times during a pursuit, after he confronted him about jaywalking across the street. But San Antonio police say Jeffrey Schopp, 33, died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, KENS 5 reports. The incident began on December 3 when Police Officer James Lopez caught Schopp crossing the street at Loop 410 and Jones Maltsberger Road without using the crosswalk - which is a Class C misdemeanor in Texas, punishable by up to a $200 fine. In body camera footage released by the San Antonio Police Department, Lopez could...

Vladimir Putin has today been seen with red eyes and a mystery bruise on his hand, fuelling further speculation of his deteriorating health. The Russian despot, today seen calling a 15-year-old girl from Ukraine's Donetsk region called Arina Porkhal as part of the New Year Tree of Wishes nationwide charity campaign, was seen with weary eyes and bruise on his hand. It is not known why the 72-year-old Russian leader has this bruise, but he is believed to have long been in ailing health. In November, strange footage showed Putin's legs twitching uncontrollably at a public event yesterday amid rumours...

This is the dramatic moment Ukraine uses British Storm Shadow missiles to eliminate two top Kremlin officers in a dramatic double strike across the Russian border. The strike on a key Russian command post in the Kursk region by half a dozen Ukrainian-deployed precision Storm Shadow missiles 'killed eight and wounded 22' in a major blow to tyrant President Vladimir Putin. Chaotic footage showed the strike on Lgov targeting a building used by Russian serviceman, and today it was revealed that the lives of two colonels were lost to the blast. Lieutenant-Colonel Valery Tereshchenko, chief of communications of the elite...

A Jack in the Box customer got a beating after attacking restaurant staff for forgetting her curly fries. The dramatic incident - which is believed to have occurred at the Spartanburg, South Carolina location - quickly escalated as the irate customer screamed at the staff for failing to add her three orders of curly fries to her combo meals. In a viral video first shared Sunday, as the woman yelled that she would 'blow this whole motherf****** up' if her order wasn't fixed. She continued to scream at the workers and even started throwing signs at them before the incident...