Ahmed Sharif, the New York City cab driver stabbed after allegedly being asked if he was Muslim, described the violent attack to local TV news reporters, saying he pleaded with his attacker not to kill him.

Huguette Clark is an heiress with a $500 million fortune and a 42-room apartment on Fifth Ave. Too bad she hasn't lived there in 20 years. Are her lawyer and accountant trying to take her for all she's worth?

The War on Mosques continued last night, as some drunk idiot barged into a Queens mosque during evening prayers, called worshipers "terrorists," and peed on their carpets. He was hospitalized and charged with criminal trespass. He probably feels silly now.

John Brady—mayor of Mankato, Minnesota—was recently arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated. And leaving the scene of an accident. And driving with an open container of alcohol (vodka). His blood-alcohol level? Three times the legal limit.

The man accused of stabbing a Muslim NYC cab driver hardly has the background one might expect from someone charged with a hate crime committed in a drunken rage.

The recent hotel hostage crisis in Brazil's second-largest city has potentially scared off the producers of the fourth Twilight movie, who were to film some scenes nearby. So, uh, good luck, everyone going to the World Cup and the Olympics.

The body of Gareth Williams, a British spy connected to MI6, was found stabbed to death and stuffed inside a bag in the bathtub of his apartment close to MI6 headquarters. So...let's not jump to any conclusions.

Lt. Col. Vincent Nyakarundi, a veteran of African peacekeeping missions, is Rwanda's first-ever military attache to the UN. He doesn't need to come all that way to get mugged. Could you face crime with the equanimity of Vincent Nyakarundi?

After he rescued a drowning child, a local newspaper called "Craig Hemengway" a hero. His granny wrote them a letter: You spelled his name wrong, it's "Eric Hemenway." Turns out he's a wanted criminal, and may now go to jail.

A man "holding 2 big knifes" tried to break into Paris Hilton's home this morning. Quick as a flash, she pulled out her cellphone—and took a picture and tweeted it while the cops slapped cuffs on him.

Thanks to video of an English woman throwing a cat in a garbage can going viral, local police have since identified the perpetrator. Although she hasn't "committed a criminal offence," she'll be questioned by the RSPCA, the U.K.'s kitty police.

The world's most inept attempted insider traders (at Disney) are pleading guilty to fraud charges.

In an incident with shades of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, at least 33 people—including six politicians and an 11 year-old boy—have been killed in a Mogadishu, Somalia hotel, in an attack by anti-government insurgents. [NYT. Pic: AP]

Meet the website I Can Stalk You, a firehose listing of Twitterers giving away their location by posting geotagged photos. The site creators show how to avoid such geotagging; as with the similar PleaseRobMe.com, you should probably heed this advice. [ReadWriteWeb] Correction: We previously said I Can Stalk You was made by the creators of PleaseRobMe.com; though the sites both shine a light on the dangers of online oversharing, they were started by entirely different teams.

Wikileaks leader Julian Assange implied that the rape and molestation charges against him in Sweden were part of a global conspiracy. But a fringe-left accuser identified in the Swedish media hardly seems like a CIA plant.

This is truly sick: here's surveillance footage from outside of a school in Coventry, England that shows a woman walk up to a cat, pet it for a few seconds, and then pick it up/throw it into a garbage bin.

A Los Angeles County jail is pioneering a gigantic cannon that shoots invisible lasers that produce a "deep burning sensation" in humans. Here's a disturbing video of prison officials shooting each other with it and giggling with horrified glee.

A 19-year-old bank robber in Germany emailed newspapers to correct factual errors about his recent heist. Police traced the email and arrested him. This guy should be an honorary inductee in the non-existent Fact-checkers Hall of Fame. [Reuters] (via Bullfightsonacid)

Yoseph Robinson, a Jamaican-born former hip hop label exec who converted to Orthodox Judaism and was working on an autobiography, was killed in a Brooklyn liquor store robbery last night. He lived an interesting life. [NYDN]

A "phone threat" has grounded an NYC-bound American Airlines flight in San Francisco.