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Watch Elsie the 'lazy' golden retriever refuses to move on a Byron Bay pavement until she's offered a snack - and it's not the first time she's embarrassed her owner!

A 'lazy golden retriever has gone viral after footage was shared of her refusing to walk with her owner - until a stranger steps in with an offer that's too good to lie down for.  The hilarious footage may be two years old, but it's made Elsie a star all over again as devoted owner Mike Cook battles to make her walk on a footpath in Byron Bay, NSW.  After he tries repeatedly to drag her down the footpath, a kind stranger offers her an ice cream, she jumps straight to her feet.  The clip has already been viewed 57million times across social media platforms. And as new footage from May this year shows, Elsie is a repeat offender when it comes to lying down while on a walk. A new video has surfaced of Elsie the golden retriever playing dead during a walk in Byron Bay in September 2018 The bystander filming can be heard erupting into a fit of laughter as Mr Cook makes varied attempts to get his dog to stand.   Another passerby then walks over and puts her cup of ice cream ne

Body of pregnant mom-of-two, 22, is found on Missouri street in suspected homicide after she was last seen walking to a gas station on Thanksgiving

A pregnant mother-of-two from the suburbs of St. Louis has been found dead one day after she was reported missing on Thanksgiving morning, in what police are now calling an apparent homicide.  The discovery of 22-year-old Amethyst 'Ame' Killian’s personal belongings was linked to the discovery of her body around noon on Friday, just a block away from her St. Peters home.  Family members initially reported Killian missing at around 8pm on Thursday when she did not return home all day.  Amethyst Killian, 22, was found murdered in suburban St Louis on Friday. She was a mom-of-two who was expecting her third child (pictured right with her boyfriend and baby) Killian left her home in St Peters, Missouri , at 1am on Thanksgiving morning  Killian was last seen alive walking to this QuikTrip gas station near her home  Killian was the mother of a seven-year-old girl and a five-month-old boy, and she had only recently learned she was pregnant with her third child, KDSK reported. Accord

'Englishman', 21, is arrested after a Spanish teenager was stabbed to death in a suspected road rage incident

A British man has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a teenager during a suspected road rage incident in Spain, a local report says. The 21-year-old was reportedly detained by police this morning following an investigation, over a week after the victim was stabbed to death in the town of Estepona, on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain. The suspect's identity has not been revealed.   Ulrich Perez, 19, was found stabbed in the chest on November 18 after he had reprimanded the driver of a UK-plated Mercedes for nearly running him over at a zebra crossing.  Perez, a cinema worker, was pronounced dead at the scene at around 2.30pm.   Ulrich Perez, 19, was found stabbed in the chest on November 18 after he had reprimanded the driver of a Mercedes  The incident took place outside the Diana Centre, in an area known as Diana Park off the dual-carriageway running between the Costa del Sol resorts of Marbella and Estepona The knife attack occurred outside The Diana Centre

Chinese Lehigh University chemistry student, 24, faces prison and deportation after admitting he tried to poison his roommate with a chemical once used in rat poison

A former Lehigh University chemistry student on Monday admitted poisoning his roommate's food and drink with a toxic heavy metal substance previously used in rat poison. Yukai Yang, 24, pleaded guilty to attempted murder. Under the terms of the plea agreement, the Northampton County District Attorney's Office will withdraw other charges in two separate cases against Yang. Yang, a chemistry major from China, acknowledged he purchased thallium in March 2018 and began giving it to his roommate, Juwan Royal.  Yukai Yang, 24 , has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for poisoning his roommate Juwan Royal with a toxic heavy metal called thallium for three months in 2018 Royal testified in an earlier court hearing that he suffered weight loss, headaches and nausea. He likened the pain from the poisoning to being stabbed with 'hundreds of tiny knives.'  Royal was diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning in April 2018. Thallium is odorless and tasteless, and can be fatal in humans. 

Cuomo tells hospitals to recruit retired doctors NOW and warns second lockdown is possible as COVID hospitalizations soar to the same level as March 23 - and that's BEFORE all the Thanksgiving infections

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday told every hospital in the state of New York to start recruiting retired doctors and nurses now before they become overwhelmed as he revealed that hospitalizations have gone up from 850 in June to 3,552 now - and new infections from Thanksgiving have not yet revealed themselves.  An entire shutdown - what he calls New York Pause - will happen if the hospital system becomes overwhelmed, he said. At the height of the pandemic in New York in April, there were more than 18,000 people in the hospital.  Monday's number of hospitalizations is the same as it was on March 23 but Cuomo said hospitals are better equipped to handle the crisis now. On Sunday, 54 people died across the state of New York. The statewide COVID-19 test positivity rate is now 4.57 percent.  Currently, the state is applying 'yellow, red and orange' zone rules to neighborhoods where there are surges.  A red zone - the most severe - closes schools and non-essential businesses but

How festive bubbles could last SIX days: Families can spend longer together at Christmas if 'unforeseen disruption to travel' stops them returning home

Families will be allowed to spend longer together at Christmas if one member cannot return home thanks to 'unforeseen disruption to travel'. Boris Johnson has said people can form Christmas bubbles with two other households and celebrate the festive season indoors from December 23 to 27. But regulations published last night appear to suggest family members will be able to stay longer if their train is delayed or if their car breaks down. Such families would be able to extend their bubble for a short time 'immediately after the Christmas period'. The loophole applies to all members of three households even if just one person is delayed. Families will be allowed to spend longer together at Christmas if one member cannot return home thanks to 'unforeseen disruption to travel' The regulations state: 'This sub-paragraph applies where one or more persons at the gathering has not been able to return to their home because of unforeseen disruption to travel.' For

Five-star ski holidays in Aspen, private jets and a $300K Audi R8: The lavish lifestyle of missing Sydney businesswoman before she vanished after allegedly stealing millions from investors

A wealthy Sydney businesswoman led a lavish lifestyle before she vanished during an investigation into whether she misused millions of dollars invested in her business by friends and associates.  Daily Mail Australia can reveal the taste for the finer things in life that Melissa Caddick and her second husband Anthony Koletti shared before she suddenly disappeared from their cliffside mansion more than a fortnight ago.  The couple regularly jetted off for ski trips at the most luxurious resort in the 'millionaire's playground' of Aspen, Colorado.  Meanwhile, Ms Caddick was a regular client of one of the city's most prestigious jewellers and music producer Mr Koletti zoomed about town in a $300,000 Audi R8.  The mother-of-one, 49, hasn't been seen since she vanished from the couple's $6.2million Dover Heights mansion, which boasts sweeping views of the city skyline.  The missing persons investigation comes while Ms Caddick was already under scrutiny by the financi