Featured Blog Posts – October 2011 Archive (193)

Surrounded: The boy retches as four instructors bear down on him

Shocking videos have emerged showing horrific abuse suffered by children at a boot camp in California, under a 'sergeant' who has since been arrested for posing as a police officer to kidnap a minor.

Kelvin 'Sergeant Mac' McFarland was arrested in May after he allegedly kidnapped a…

Shocking footage has surfaced of a Sudanese man being publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia for being a 'sorcerer'.

Crouched on his knees and blindfolded, Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al-Fakki was executed in a car park Medina, in the west of the country,…

She is currently making her way around Scandinavia as she brings her Loud Tour to her Norwegian, Danish and Swedish fans.

But last night, the latter were left extemely disappointed after Rihanna was forced to cancel her Swedish date due to a bad dose of the flu.

The singer was taken to hospital and put on an IV drip in and took to her Twitter page to give her heartfelt…

The woman, 47, was with her 10-year-old son when the shopping cart crashed on her head

A woman was clinging to life Sunday after a shopping cart — pushed off a ledge by a group of teens in East Harlem — plummeted four stories and landed on her head, cops and witnesses said.

The 47-year-old woman was with a young boy when the red cart dropped from a walkway that connects a Target…

The pilot of a JetBlue plane stuck on the tarmac for seven hours full of increasingly angry and frustrated passengers pleaded for assistance from airport officials, telling them he "can't seem to get any help from our own company."



"I got a problem here on the airplane, I'm gonna need to have the cops on board," the pilot said, according to cockpit recordings posted on LiveATC.net. "There's a cop car…

Halloween is a secular holiday combining vestiges of traditional harvest festival celebrations with customs more specific to the occasion such as costume wearing, trick-or-treating, pranksterism, and decorations based on imagery of death and the supernatural. The observance takes place on October 31.



Though it was regarded up until the last few decades of the 20th century as…

The US Department of Transportation (DOT), which imposed the fine, said in a statement Friday that the Trinidad-based carrier was reimbursing consumers with less than they were entitled to under an international treaty.



"Both domestic and…

David Cameron has threatened to withhold UK aid from governments that do not reform legislation banning homosexuality.

The UK prime minister said he raised the issue with some of the states involved at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth,…

A five-year-old girl shot in the head during a suspected home invasion has died three days later.

Allison Griffor was sleeping in her bed at her family’s home in Charleston, South Carolina,…

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Large scale: The 16ft-long Burmese Python is captured by amazed workers in Everglades National Park in Florida

A 16-foot-long Burmese python was found to have a whole adult deer in its stomach after it was captured and killed in a U.S. national…

Blunt force: Autopsy results reveal that the 16-year-old varsity player died from blunt force trauma during the match

The mother of a high school student who collapsed and died after a football game was only notified of her son's death via…

An amazing experience: Lesbian student Rebeca Arellano said she loved the moment she was crowned at the pep rally

A lesbian student has been crowned homecoming king at a Californian high school.

During a pep rally at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego on Friday, the…

A baggage screener who left a note saying "Get your freak on girl" inside a woman's suitcase that contained a sex toy will be fired, the federal Transportation Security Administration said Friday.





"TSA views the handwritten note to be highly inappropriate and unprofessional and…

A Hertfordshire, U.K. man must be feeling pretty embarrassed after making an emergency call to report a mysterious flying object, which turned out to be nothing less than the moon itself.



Or was it just a bad prank?



"It's not an emergency per se," the caller…

A 28-year old Zimbabwe man arrested for allegedly having sex with a donkey tied to a tree has a simple explanation for his actions: the donkey was actually a prostitute who had, well, made an ass of herself.





According to New Zimbabwe, Sunday Moyo, a 28-year-old, told the court he paid $20 for a…

Wyclef Jean was celebrating his 42nd birthday last night at Webster Hall in NYC, when he spotted a couple of people in the crowd standing still.





The Fugees member halted the music and told everyone onstage not to follow him as he jumped into the crowd solo and got at a couple of haters.





"The…