A video shows a man brazenly helping himself to a real-life pot of gold from an unattended armoured truck in Manhattan during broad daylight. The audacious crook casually walked up to the back of a parked armored truck and snatched an aluminium pail containing gold worth an estimated $1.6 million. Surveillance cameras captured the robbery in Midtown Manhattan, showing the suspect running away with 86 pounds of gold flakes. ABC News reports: The alleged theft happened earlier this fall in midtown Manhattan, on Sept.

The United Nations has dealt a bitter blow to the UK government, ordering them to immediately release Julian Assange from his “illegal detention”. The UN rejected a UK appeal against its previous ruling in favor of Assange as “inadmissible,” which means that both the UK and Sweden will be forced to free the WikiLeaks founder with immediate effect. “Now that all appeals are exhausted, I expect that the UK and Sweden will comply with their international obligations and set me free,” Julian Assange said in a statement.

Thousands of veterans are planning to form a human shield around the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protect protestors from police brutality. Up to 2,000 veterans are expected in North Dakota amid violent clashes between protestors and militarised cops over the construction of an oil pipeline. The nonviolent intervention by the veterans aims to protect the brave protestors from “assault and intimidation at the hands of the militarized police force”.

Locals from Mason County, West Virginia, have been told to be on the lookout for the mysterious ‘mothman’ after a man pictured the winged beast on Sunday evening. A man spotted the legendary ‘mothman’ while driving out in his car, and pulled over to capture the beast which appears to have red eyes and 10ft wings. Mirror.co.uk reports: The man, who declined the opportunity of an interview, said he pulled over on State Route 2 to take pictures of the strange creature after seeing it jumping between trees. It is described as having red eyes and 10ft wings, with the body of a human.