5 Cringe-Worthy World News Stories

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Smartphones and social media are rapidly changing the news business, as stories and images that once took weeks, if not years, to surface can now be instantly loaded to Facebook, Twitter and other websites. More information at a faster clip is certainly an overall good, but things tend to get complicated when much of the sharing is coming from restive and war-torn corners of the globe. Websites like Reddit and LiveLeak present a large selection of unfiltered and raw videos and images, as war crimes and atrocities are brought before our eyes at the tap of a tab. When it comes to the world's most gruesome and disturbing deeds, there's indeed an app for that. (Many, in fact.) There's also, sadly, no shortage of bad news. Here are five cringe-worthy, Not Safe For Work news stories from 2013. BEGIN LIST

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