A Pennsylvania woman was arrested after showing police a picture of herself next to her 2-year-old daughter bound to a chair with duct tape. This has got to be the dumbest lady around.

The turmoil in Tunisia can be traced to an unemployed man who set himself on fire last month in protest, and now more people across North Africa are doing the same. Today, two men set themselves on fire in Egypt.

Scientist Sook Shin had two years of prostate cancer research on her laptop when she and her husband stopped at a local Panera for dinner in Oklahoma City. The computer was stolen, and now prostate cancer will never be cured.

The body of 65-year-old Portuguese journalist Carlos Castro was found yesterday in a Times Square InterContinental Hotel room "bludgeoned in the head and his scrotum cut off." Police are questioning Castro's male model companion, "twentysomething" Renato Seabra. [NYDN; image]

Three young men aged 15, 17, and 27 were hanging out at their usual spot, a railroad overpass in Commerce, California. They heard a train coming, so they moved to the opposite tracks. They didn't hear the other train coming.

A United Nations official said the cholera outbreak in Haiti could spread to 200,000 people within the next three months, and that some 2,000 people had already died: "This epidemic is moving faster. It's going to spread." [Reuters]

Chex Mix is good, but not this good. "You need to try it. It's like a million different flavors in your mouth." Thanks for shoving it down our throats. Can we get back to the delicious, delicious story?

All 68 people traveling aboard an AeroCaribbean flight in Cuba have died in a crash.

Over 100 people have died in several volcanic eruptions in Indonesia since late last month, with another large eruption on Mount Merapi last night. A pyroclastic flow of 1,400 degree gas was moving at 60 mph through one village.

Award-winning New York Times photographer Joao Silva was badly injured after stepping on a landmine in Afghanistan today.

At least 135 people have died in Haiti from a suspected cholera outbreak.

Two men have been arrested after assaulting a man in the Stonewall Inn, the iconic Manhattan gay bar and "ground zero" of the gay-rights movement. "What kind of bar is this?" one of them asked, before hitting the victim.

Two teenagers were sentenced to jail after duct-taping a 22-month-old child to the wall. The pictures—here with the child's face obscured—show him stuck to the wall at uncomfortable angles and with tape directly on his bare skin.

Read this horrifying story at your own risk.

In Bangladesh, a country of 160 million, some 77 million people have been poisoned by arsenic in the drinking water, according to a 10-year Lancet study. The WHO calls it "the largest mass poisoning of a population in history." [BBC]

An American woman died while rescuing her 12-year-old son after a wave knocked them both off a pier in Italy. A Brazilian tourist captured the violent wave, and the woman's sudden fall, on his cell phone camera.

Staff memos can be largely ignored. But this Orlando television news director has proposed some Communist Russia-type "exercises" for an upcoming "Newsroom Summit." Ready to snitch, in writing, on those who have "a negative influence on what we do?"

So Ann Coulter is back in the news basically admitting that everything she says is a joke. Well those jokes are horrible, inflammatory things. Here's a compilation of those horrible things. You're the worst, Ann!

First of all—is this a joke? If this is a joke, then—HA! If this isn't a joke, the only explanation is the Tea Party is unveiling a hideous plot to create musically disinclined zombies to defeat health care.

We all got a kick out of the arrest of the Missouri GOP ex-pol for roughing up a sex partner because she forgot the safeword: "Green balloons." The police report is out, and it looks like a straight-up, horrific rape.