This Is What Happens When a Fire Gets Into a Coal Mine
A coal mine is currently burning the hell up in Australia. For obvious reasons, fires in coal mines are extremely problematic—the exposed coalface burns, just as coal should, and smolders through the...
View ArticleBrazilian Police Are Now Using Jiu-Jitsu Squads to Subdue Protestors
Brazilian Police Are Now Using Jiu-Jitsu Squads to Subdue Protestors
View ArticleKhalid Abdalla Has His Eye on Egypt
Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla is one of the chief protagonists in the documentary The Square, which was nominated earlier this month for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His new film, In...
View ArticlePeter Mansbridge Got Paid to Speak to an Oil Industry Crowd
Peter Mansbridge, working for his money. via Facebook. Peter Mansbridge has been the news anchor of CBC’s The National since 1995, which makes him the longest serving anchor in the history of this...
View ArticleThe Amateur Medics of the Kiev Uprising
The blood of protesters in the Maidan, Kiev Severely beaten and many of them close to death, scores of injured lay across Kiev’s Mariinsky park as temperatures hovered well below freezing. Earlier...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd - Season 1: Ed Templeton - Part 2
In part two of our Ed Templeton episode, Ed takes us through joining Schmitt Stix Skateboards, losing his virginity to the sound of The Smiths, and putting out his first video part in New Deal’s...
View ArticleThe Guy Who Wants to Sell Lab-Grown Salami Made of Kanye West Is '100 Percent...
The Guy Who Wants to Sell Lab-Grown Salami Made of Kanye West Is '100 Percent Serious'
View ArticleHumans Have a Long History of Eating Each Other
Human appetizer. Photo via People who eat people are generally not considered “good people.” If you have any doubts, spend an afternoon searching the world wide web and peruse the “Cannibal Top Ten...
View ArticleComics: Blobby Boys - Part 1
About a month ago we promoted Nick Gazin from resident mouthbreather to art editor, and one of his first orders of business has been to ratchet up the number of serialized comics on VICE.com. Last...
View ArticleWelcome to the VICE News Private Beta
Behold, dear reader: a message from VICE founder and CEO Shane Smith about our new news website, VICE News, which is now in Private Beta. Join now at vicenews.com. Hello, my diamonds, Welcome to the...
View ArticleI Spent a Year Being Exploited by a Shady Call Centre in Quebec
Illustrations by Alex Schubert. No one wants to work 12-hour days cold calling random people in hopes of getting their money. At least I didn’t. But I was an American trying to stay in Quebec. I...
View ArticleRussia Is Still Building a 'Rural Berlin Wall' Through Georgia
The barbed wire fence at the village of Gogeti, Georgia. "Three days ago, they moved the fence 30 yards closer to my home," says Georgian farmer Georgi Chatlitschvi. "The Russian border guards told me...
View ArticleMajor Lazer's "Lose Yourself" Video Premiere
Major Lazer's "Lose Yourself" Video Premiere
View ArticleThe Man Who Decapitated His Seatmate on a Greyhound Bus Is Set to be Released
Vince Li, soon after his arrest in 2008, via. After sawing off a man’s head with a Rambo knife six years ago, Vince Li will soon be able to leave the psychiatric unit behind for short periods of time...
View ArticleThe British Porn Star Who Swapped Lesbian Scenes for the Lord
Teresa Scott taken during her modeling career. Photo courtesy of NiceButNaughtyGirls.com "It was just a normal day. I'd been out having sex with some girls, and then I saw Jesus," said Teresa Scott....
View ArticleEverything You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know About Abortion
Founded in 2007, the Museum for Contraception and Abortion, in Vienna, Austria, is the world's most thorough collection of the different methods and objects humans have used to prevent the birth of...
View ArticleThe Ugandan Media Is Exacerbating Anti-LGBT Violence
via Kasha Jacqueline on Twitter. Exposed! So read the headline of Red Pepper, a tabloid in Uganda whose editors saw fit to publish the names of 200 suspected gays. As anti-LGBT tensions in African...
View ArticleArizona's Nomadic, Autistic Astronomer
I find Richard Andreassen outside a camera store in Phoenix, Arizona, blasting thrash metal from his red pickup truck. Behind his truck is a trailer that acts as both his home and portable...
View Article'Mossless' Magazine’s Mammoth Third Issue
Portrait of Romke Hoogwaerts and Grace Leigh by Matthew Leifheit The forthcoming third issue of Mossless magazine is a nearly 300-page volume of new American documentary photography that will...
View ArticlePastor of Korean Megachurch Convicted for Embezzling $12 Million
The entrance to Yoido Full Gospel Church Last week, David Yongi-Cho was convicted of embezzling $12 million in funds from the Yoido Full Gospel Church. He was given a three-year suspended prison...
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