A Cincinnati mom claimed over the weekend that her 13-year-old daughter may have attacked her because she was influenced by the mythological creature Slender Man. This is the second stabbing linked to the character, who's been popularized on the CreepyPasta Wiki.

Lovebird visitors to the Pont des Arts, a footbridge in Paris, typically mark the occasion by fixing a padlock to its handrail and tossing the key into the Seine to symbolize their eternal devotion. Yesterday evening, police evacuated the bridge after a 2.4-meter section of railing collapsed under the weight of their adoration.

A man was injured after an elevator he was riding in traveled up 31 floors in 15 seconds while he desperately pushed buttons in an attempt to stop it.

First, Vine showed us illicit acts with a Hot Pocket, and now, Vine shows us space. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted the first Vine from the International Space Station over the weekend, which shows one 92-minute Earth orbit compressed into 6 seconds.

According to an Associated Press report, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has said that he was tortured, beaten, and kept in a cage by Taliban forces while held captive in Afghanistan. Bergdahl spoke of the torture — which allegedly came after he attempted to escape — to people treating him at a U.S. military medical center in Germany.

The Pakistani Taliban took credit on Monday for an attack on Pakistan's busiest airport, according to The New York Times. On Sunday night, 10 gunmen — some of them dressed as police — entered the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan and led a five-hour assault in the VIP terminal, killing 19 people. The Taliban in part blames the U.S. for the attack, claiming it was revenge for last November's drone strike that killed Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud.

An Australian man with an apparent death wish antagonized a stingray at the beach in Gold Coast. The stingray returned the favor by charging at the man, stopping short of stinging him. Lucky for the man, the person filming was able to warn him so that he could get away. While the chances of dying from a stingray sting are rare, you'll remember that Steve Irwin died in 2006 after a stingray's tail spine pierced his heart.

At least 24 students from Hyderabad, Telangana are feared to have drowned in a sudden flood of the Beas River Sunday evening. According to witnesses, the flood apparently occurred after the hydropower plant upstream released its floodgates without warning.

Two Santa Rosa, Ca. teens were arrested by police this week after being pulled over in an orange McLaren sports car valued at $240,000. The two apparently rented the car for $13,000 with a stolen credit card, with which they also rented a $12 million vacation home.

Sixty years to the day of his death, a computer at the University of Reading passed Alan Turing's test Saturday, successfully convincing judges that they were communicating with a human. UPDATE 6/10: As io9 and others have pointed out, it was not a computer (or a supercomputer) but a chat bot — a program designed to mimic human conversation—that "passed" the Turing Test.

LAPD have arrested Joshua Corbett, 39, without incident for allegedly breaking into Sandra Bullock's home early Sunday morning. Bullock was home at the time of the break in, and her reps tell People that "she is unharmed and is fine." Police booked Corbett on a residential burglary charge.

Gunmen reportedly shot and killed two police officers and a third person before taking their own lives inside a Las Vegas Walmart store Sunday morning. According to witnesses, the two shooters had apparently made a suicide pact and before killing the police officers, said the shootings were "the start of the revolution."

After a crash early Saturday that killed one and injured four others including actor and comedian Tracy Morgan, a rep for Morgan is saying he will likely remain in the hospital for several more weeks. Kevin Roper, a truck driver for Walmart, has been charged in the accident with one count of death by auto and four counts of assault by auto.

Between four and 10 gunmen attacked a terminal at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan late Sunday night, killing at least people.

Police in Prince Frederick, Md. arrested a drunk man on Friday afternoon for attempting to steal candy from a Subway restaurant. He was reportedly only wearing shorts and socks.

Around 8 p.m. last night, three inmates at the Orsainville Detention Centre outside of Quebec City fled the jail as they were whisked away by a green helicopter that had touched down on the property. This counts as the second time this kind of escape has happened in Canada in only two years.

Chillary "Hillary" Clinton has been making the press salivate lately, with a slew of interviews in anticipation of Tuesday's release of her new memoir "Hard Choices." But the former secretary of state isn't giving in to pressure: she continues to say she'll announce if she's running for president when she feels ready.

A spokesperson for St Anthony Hospital in Washington told Reuters that the legendary radio DJ and voice of Scooby-Doo's Shaggy has been in critical condition in Washington since early last week. As of an update today, Kasem is being treated for an infected bedsore but remains in intensive care.

Sir Mix-A-Lot was given the opportunity to mix a lot of mediums last night in Seattle, where his 1992 hit single "Baby Got Back" was performed and remixed by the Seattle Symphony. The rapper and producer names Seattle as his hometown.

Kevin Roper, the 35-year-old truck driver who was reportedly dozing at the wheel when his tractor trailer crashed into Tracy Morgan's limo bus early Saturday morning, turned himself in Saturday night, a spokesperson for the NJ State Police said. He was charged with one count of death by auto and four counts of assault by auto.