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If you thought you had a lousy Christmas, consider the plight of Jimmy Halpin. The 54-year-old, who had lost his wife to stomach cancer just weeks before, died from head and neck injuries sustained when he slipped on ice at his mother’s grave on Christmas Day. His 29-year-old daughter...

A Pakistani court sentenced two men to life in prison and to have their ears and noses cut off for a similar mutilation that they inflicted upon a woman who refused to marry one of them. The BBC reports that the court found that the two brothers were guilty...

A Bulgarian man has been sentenced to 16 years prison for the murder of his neighbor, who he says played the same song, at top volume, constantly, for more than a week. Croatian Times reports that 45-year-old Alexander Alexandrov snapped after his neighbor, Martin Kromov, subjected him to more...

British police are on the hunt for a balding middle-aged man that repeatedly sniffed the posterior of a 20-year-old male supermarket worker. CCTV footage shows the man hovering in the aisles near his victim, then bringing his nose into line with his backside and pausing for a length of...

An Arizona teacher was placed on administrative leave after school authorities learned that she had taken 40 students to eat at a Hooters restaurant in downtown Phoenix. AZ Central reportsd that Mary Segall, the choir director for Paradise Valley High School accompanied her students to a performance at Arizona...

As you can see from the video, this gentleman has set about mounting a remotely controlled rocket launcher to his motorcycle....

A millionaire businessman who defended himself against a knife-wielding burglar was sentenced to two-and-a-half years after his attacker walked free....

A 32-year-old Chinese man has signed a contract that allows his wife, a kung fu practitioner, to beat him once a week. The man, who has been identified by the Chongqing Evening News as Zhang, created the contract in an attempt to limit the amount of abuse he suffers...

A British prisoner was able to grow cannabis in his jail cell and even decorate a four-foot plant as a Christmas tree thanks to some clueless prison guards. Twenty-eight-year-old Mohamed Jalloh, who was serving an 8-year sentence for supplying Class A drugs, succeeded in convincing jail staff that his...