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“Even though I got burnt, I really didn’t care though,” Derrick Byrds told Komo News. “I’d rather get burnt than her. She’s young. She’s still got a lot of stuff going for her. She’s a good kid.” Byrd suffered second- and third-degree burns saving his niece, Mercedes, after a blaze broke out at the family’s home in Aberdeen Thursday morning. It’s unclear what sparked the blaze, which apparently began on the second floor....

City led in the first minute when David Silva was set up by Kevin De Bruyne, with the champions maintaining their frantic early scoring pace to go 5-0 up inside 18 minutes. That in itself was a Premier League record, but City could not quite manage to equal the competition’s biggest ever win, Manchester United’s 9-0 defeat of Ipswich Town in 1995. Bernardo Silva hit a hat-trick as City impressively bounced back from a shock loss at the hands of injury-hit Norwich City last time out in league action....

The now-viral Reddit post was shared to the subreddit “Antiwork” on February 8 by u/ghart999. It’s titled, “My 16-year-old makes more than my wife who’s a preschool teacher with a master’s degree.” The post has received over 20,000 upvotes in less than 24 hours. The original poster (OP) revealed that his wife works at a private Christian school that includes a large church attached to it. The Redditor said “the church is in an expensive area of very wealthy people,” and the church gets enormous donations....

The man, thought to be in his 50s or 60s, was found floating face down in the water, after the attack at Greenmount Beach in the city of Coolangatta, on the country’s east coast, The Courier Mail reported. The man suffered severe injuries to his leg after when he was bitten by the shark—though to be a great white—at around 5 p.m. in the afternoon local time. One eyewitness told the Courier Mail that the water at the scene was red with blood following the incident....

Posted by TikTok user @whoalaureik on September 16, the video amassed more than 2 million views as it showed the man screaming once the squirrel ran toward him. “Just your average conference call,” read the video caption. According to The Humane Society, a squirrel who found itself in someone’s house will look for a way to get out. “Place any pets in another room. Close all interior doors and open a window or exterior door in the room,” the organization said....

In court this week, 29-year-old Owen Marshall admitted to setting fire to a petrol-soaked towel and placing it through the closed nightclub’s letterbox. The club, SWX was scheduled to reopen to a sold-out crowd the next week but was unable to due to the damage caused by the fire. Police said Marshall had become “obsessed” with COVID-19 protocols and was also targeting other venues in the area over the summer....

The cringe-inducing moment went viral on Twitter, as videos taken by NHL fans showed a shirtless man kneeling on one knee before a woman in the aisle of New York’s UBS Arena, during a game between the New York Islanders and the Florida Panthers on October 13. The words “PLZ SAY YES YES YES” were etched across the man’s bare chest, according to spectators. The woman appeared to be stunned, holding her hands over her mouth, but the kiss cam cut away before she could answer....

Posting on Reddit’s popular r/AmITheA**hole forum, Redditor u/ThrowRAeconomy550 (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) said she was finally invited on one of her husband’s many vacations but detailed her disappointment upon realizing his offer wasn’t as sweet as it seemed. Titled, “[Am I the a**hole] for returning home after I found out that my husband booked 1st class for him and his friend while I got economy?...

Posting in Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole” (AITA) forum under the username u/boatlyfe12, the man said the comment was made during a “couples’ game.” The post has garnered more than 7,800 upvotes and over 6,000 comments from heated Redditors who said the man “overreacted” to his girlfriend’s admission, and suggested that he apologize to her. In his post, the man explained that he met his girlfriend of two years, Kenzie, through his childhood best friend, Grace....

Director of Forestry Abdul Khalim Abu Samah of the Kelantan Forestry Department made the comments in a speech delivered on January 24 at the Relai Forest Reserve in Gua Musang, Singapore’s Mothership reported. The forestry director was quoted by the news site as suggesting that logging created new growth for saplings that would in turn attract animals such as deer, which are favored as prey by tigers. “The tiger population will become larger when small trees grow in the deforested area....

Malmohus have won just one out of their four ECS T10 Malmo matches and are currently placed in third spot in the Group B points table. They lost their last match against Landskrona by five wickets. Goteborg City, on the other hand, have won their first two matches and are currently second in Group B. They head into today’s double-header on the back of a 19-run victory over Landskrona....

Sundowns took an early lead with a beautifully created goal, Leandro Sirino turning into space and delivering an excellent cross that was met by a towering Mosa Lebusa header. Their advantage last just five minutes, however, as Ahmed Diomande converted a penalty to level the scores for ASEC. A pair of well-made second-half goals secured the points for Sundowns, as Themba Zwane restored the lead before Emiliano Tade finished off a counter-attack in stoppage time....

On Reddit, user u/Throwawayconfess17 asked, “Am I the a****** for kicking my friend’s boyfriend out of my house after my friends planned a new year’s gathering that I can’t attend?” Describing himself as a “full-time wheelchair user,” the man wrote: “Alright so maybe I am overreacting, but honestly I’ve kind of reached a breaking point.” He said his friends went to an eatery that wasn’t accessible to him, meaning he had to ring in the new year alone at home....

They faced a Saints side who are struggling to get going and has won just one game in the Premier League this season. Southampton did give City a run for their money in both the fixtures last season, and it took last-minute goals to decide both matches. However, Mark Hughes had a daunting task of stopping City at Etihad which is a fort for the Citizens and where they are yet to drop a point this campaign....

Mahrez scored on either side of halftime in the semifinal second leg, with his second goal seeing City pull three goals clear on aggregate and all but seal the tie. As the clock ticked down and with the tie out of reach PSG made a series of harsh challenges, with Angel Di Maria sent off for kicking out at Fernandinho. What was said? “It was a very good game. We didn’t start well again — we didn’t have a good first half but we got the goal and we were more comfortable,” Mahrez told BT Sport....

Pep Guardiolas men will become the first team in the leagues 26-year history to wrap up the title with six games to spare if they beat United at the Etihad – a fitting end to a season of almost total dominance in the league. City are 16 points clear of Jose Mourinhos second-placed team so it is a matter of when rather than if they wrap up the Premier League title, the first of Guardiolas reign in England....

City celebrated a record-breaking season as they won the Premier League by 19 points ahead of neighbours Manchester United in 2017-18. It was City’s third Premier League title and first since 2014, and full-back Walker revealed Guardiola’s team are determined to enjoy prolonged dominance in England after opening their defence with a 2-0 win over Arsenal. “Obviously, he’s [Pep] not striving for [just] one title and we’re not as well - we want more....

Carlos Atencio said he woke up around 5 a.m. on January 9 after hearing something on the porch. Atencio told KUSA, an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Denver, that one of his dogs, Izzy, was sitting there right near the door, which he said was “pretty rare.” After spotting Izzy, Atencio soon found the carcass of his other dog, Buster, nearby, The rancher said it was “pretty obvious” that wolves were responsible for the death of Buster....

The man, u/RepublicAdvanced5391, shared his story to the popular r/AmITheA****** subreddit, earning 8,600 upvotes and 2,600 comments in two days for his post, “[Am I the A******] for not returning my mom’s ring?” The original poster (OP) says he was with his now-ex-fiancée “Mela” for seven years. He describes her as “obsessed with marriage,” citing her having a Pinterest board of wedding ideas for “years,” and beginning to ask the OP if he would propose after they’d been together for about four years....

Jim Dow, a franchisee of real estate company HomeVestors, recently bought the house in the Calumet Heights neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, according to CBS Chicago. He told the station that he has bought more than 50 homes to flip over the past five years, but had “never seen anything even close to this before.” Dow said he was “shocked” to discover five envelopes hidden around the living room, containing cash amounting to around $10,000....