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The US Women’s National Soccer team was victorious in its opening match of the 2023 FIFA World Cup — but they’re not winners to fans left fuming after the most of the athletes stayed silent during the national anthem.

Paris (AFP) – A French policeman dealt a man with a camera such a strong truncheon blow during pension reform protests this week that he had to have a testicle amputated, the man's lawyer said Sunday. Images and footage from Thursday's demonstrations circulating online shows a policeman hitting a man on the ground between the legs, and then leaving. The man is seen holding a camera. Lawyer Lucie Simon said she was filing a complaint on behalf of her client, a 26-year-old Franco-Spanish engineer who was taking pictures of the gathering, for "voluntary violence that led to mutilation by a...

PHILADELPHIA, PA–He was the only one who didn’t run. Now Darrin Manning may never father children after his encounter with a police officer earlier this month. While on his way to a basketball game after school, the straight-A student and his teammates had an encounter with officer Thomas Purcell. Apparently one of the teammates may have said a snide remark to the officer, who then approached them. The boys ran, but Manning stopped and stayed. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” he said to Philly.com. What happened next is hard to believe. Darrin was handcuffed, frisked, and his genitals were pulled...

It turned out to be a story that by the next day would go viral on the Web: A 41-year-old Lynnwood man had accidentally shot himself in the testicles at Lowe’s. For those at the scene, it would be something they’ll remember as initially scary, and then, as they learned the details … the guy did what? Helping the victim, who was wearing black sweatpants, Fischer asked how it happened. “He says, ‘It was in my waistband, and I felt it starting to slip, reached for it, and I must have positioned my finger so the trigger went off,” Fischer...

A MINNESOTA teenager had to have his testicle amputated after being punched in the groin by a classmate. KARE11.com said David Gibbons, 14, was changing classes in his Crosby high school when he was attacked by another student playing a game called "sack tapping". David’s mother, Christy Gibbons, said it wasn't until hours later that they realised something was wrong. "One o'clock in the morning he woke me up and told me he was in excruciating pain," she said. David was taken to St Joseph's Hospital in Brainerd, Minnesota where surgeons removed his right testicle. And David is not the...

LONDON: In an astonishing revelation found in the memoirs of Christa Schroeder, Adolf Hitler’s secretary, Hitler often hallucinated about happier romantic times because his doctor often injected him with hormones procured from the testicles of bulls. According to Schroeder’s book, the Führer’s mood was known to change in the blink of an eye, and his periodic bursts of bonhomie perplexed and overwhelmed most in his inner circle. Schroeder worked for the Führer from 1933 until the end in May 1945. Hitler became so relaxed in Schroeder’s company that he would talk with surprising openness about his childhood. Schroeder was arrested...

Hitler had only one testicle “His abdomen and legs were all in blood. Hitler was injured in the abdomen and lost one testicle. His first question to the doctor was: ‘Will I be able to have children?’.”

LOS ANGELES -- An Air Force veteran has filed a federal claim after an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.

Euphemisms abound for the, uh, delicacy that will be the focus of a festival Saturday in Mount Sterling, Ill., about 90 miles north of St. Louis. Kevin Huston, who owns the Sportsman's Club bar, which is hosting the festival, has heard 'em all: cowboy caviar, swinging beef, mountain oysters, lamb fries. But folks in Mount Sterling (population 2,077) don't mince words, so the festival is known simply as the Sportsman's Club Testicle Festival. "They're not really like chicken or a beef steak," Huston says. "They're in a class of their own." The festival, which will feature beef, pork, lamb and...

What makes an egg an egg?© SPL To say that eggs grow only in females and sperm grow only in males seems a pretty uncontroversial statement. But Japanese researchers have shown that it's not as simple as that, by nurturing female eggs in the testes of male mice. In a growing mouse embryo, the cells that will become the testes or ovaries, known as germ cells, start out the same in both sexes. In males, a gene on the Y chromosome called Sry switches on about halfway through gestation and prompts these undecided cells to develop into testes containing...

A British woman was sentenced to two and a half years in jail Thursday for ripping off one of her ex-lover's testicles with her bare hands during a drunken brawl after he refused her sex. ADVERTISEMENT Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage in May last year after Geoffrey Jones, 37, who had ended their long-term relationship, rejected her advances. She grabbed him by the genitals, tearing off his left testicle, then hid it in her mouth before a friend of Jones handed it back to him saying "that's yours." Monti, of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding...

By Laura May, PA A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles after his team beat England, police confirmed today. The man was rushed to hospital after the incident at Leigh Social Club in Caerphilly, South Wales. A Gwent Police spokeswoman said: “We received a call from the ambulance service at approximately 9pm on the 5th to inform us of a situation at the Leigh Social Club in which a man had indeed severed his own testicles.” She said the man was taken to Heath Hospital but could not confirm his condition. It was reported that the man told...

<p>KAMPALA, Uganda -- A Ugandan woman bit off her husband's penis and testicles during an argument, police said on Wednesday.</p> <p>The woman, Annet Minduru, 30, was in police custody in the capital Kampala and could be charged with causing grievous bodily harm, said the officer in charge of the station, Vigilius Okuni.</p>