Prince William gave a British restaurant customer the surprise of their life. While on an official visit to the city of Birmingham, William and his wife Kate Middleton stopped by a popular Indian restaurant, and the prince took a call from a customer looking to book a table. The customer said he had no idea he was speaking to royalty and told the BBC it was "amazing and a surprise." The royals also visited the restaurant's kitchen and met the all-women team of chefs.
TERRIFYING FREE FALL
A French skier shared a terrifying video of his fal last yearl into a massive crevasse while skiing in the Alps. He's wearing a helmet camera, which captures the snow crumbling beneath his skis as he free falls. The skier's team was able to rescue him, telling The Telegraph that the rescue was "the longest 20 minutes of our lives." The fall happened last April, but the team waited until now to post the video since it was such a terrifying close call.
'RAINING BABIES'
In the past two weeks, The Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center has rescued over 500 abandoned baby animals in the area.That count includes more than 250 ducklings, 80 opossums, 80 hummingbirds, 60 squirrels, and a dozen raccoons. Over the next several months, the center will make sure the baby animals are safe and healthy, and then they will release them back into the wild. The influx is out of the ordinary, with the organization's executive director saying "we were raining babies!"
Grace Harry, a former entertainment executive and author of "The Joy Strategist," joined Cheddar News to discuss her goal of helping people redefine the meaning of joy and happiness.
The chief suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has admitted he beat the young Alabama woman to death on a beach in Aruba after she refused his advances. New details in the killing emerged Wednesday as Joran Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting Holloway's mother, resolving a case that has captivated the public’s attention for nearly 20 years.
The trial of a Fugees rapper, who was convicted this year in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies, stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment — and now the case is touching on the tech world with arguments that his defense attorney bungled the case, in part, by using an artificial intelligence program to write his closing arguments.
Israel said Wednesday that it will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the first crack in a 10-day siege on the territory. Palestinians reeled from a massive blast at a Gaza City hospital that killed hundreds the day before and grew increasingly desperate as food and water supplies ran out.
