A chance encounter with a deeply mysterious cephalopod known as the whip-lash squid has been captured on camera some 1,000 meters (3,281 feet) below the sea's surface in the Tonga Trench.

Walls, to-day ordered twenty lashes to be applied to Nellie Thomas, a young girl whom he found guilty of petty thievery. This wax the first instance of a female being publicly whipped under the ...

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