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A 25-year-old Egyptian man chopped off his own penis because his father would not give him permission to marry a woman of a lower class....

A 35-year-old Taiwanese groom died at home after drinking too much beer and wine on his wedding day. Wu, an insurance company worker, passed out after returning home from at an upmarket restaurant where he was entertaining more than 100 wedding guests. He was taken to hospital when his...

When Brazilian police pulled over a suspicious vehicle near the notorious Presidente Venceslau penitentiary in Sao Paulo state, they made an interesting discovery. In the trunk of the car was a large radio controlled helicopter that had been rigged to carry cell phones....

Twelve-year-old Nicholas Rossi was lucky to have seen his 13th birthday on Tuesday, after a bicycle accident in a country town left him with bleeding on the brain. What happened next involved a quick-witted country doctor and an electric drill from the maintenance room....

"You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."...

A Taiwanese carpenter got more than he bargained for when he rented a little adult entertainment from his video store. The title of the pornographic DVD that he took home was, Affairs with Others’ Wives in this case one of the others was his friend and, needless to say,...

A Dallas woman has given birth to two twins fathered by different men. Mia Washington and her fiance James Harrison were surprised to learn that their 11-month-old twins, Justin and Jordan, had different fathers....

Athletes, whether we want to believe it or not, are people just like the rest of us. Despite their near physical perfection, the pressure to perform or perhaps the dizzying effects of stardom at times cause even the best of them to behave inappropriately. Bad sportsmanship is common enough,...

When a high street bakery in Split, Croatia, was broken into on an almost weekly basis, the management turned to none other than Chuck Norris....