The Chilean Supreme Court has ordered daily newspaper La Tercera to pay $125,000 to 13 people injured while using a recipe for exploding churros. The newspaper's recipe forgot to mention the exploding part, apparently because it didn't test the recipe carefully enough.

A female resident of Portland, Oregon was at home cooking tofu when, suddenly and without warning, her kitchen exploded. The woman said she was rinsing her tofu pan in the sink when a mysterious force—she isn't sure what—burned her hand and knocked a six-foot window out of her home and onto the street.

An airman from the Royal Australian Air Force is being treated for "severe burns" after he apparently had a porta john mishap earlier today. A spokeswoman for the Department of Community Safety in Queensland told the Brisbane Times, "He was in a portaloo when there was some kind of explosion. It's believed he was lighting a cigarette at the time." So many potential jokes here, but damn, that's pretty rough.

A rash of inexplicable watermelon explosions has stricken melon farmers in eastern China. Experts are baffled! Is this the start of the coming apocalypse?

This tank handles a car bomb the way it handles most problems: it just drives right over it.

Ever wonder how you could destroy a glass bottle and your microwave with just a handful of ingredients? If you try this at home just make sure you have a garage you're willing to ruin as well.

After an early-morning explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station damaged one reactor's steel containment vessel and spurred the removal of emergency workers, officials expanded the evacuation zone and braced for "much larger emissions of radioactive materials." How bad are we talking? "It's way past Three Mile Island already," physicist Frank von Hippel tells The New York Times.

Although the station was destroyed, no one was hurt thanks to the heroic actions of this truck driver.

Ever wonder what a firecracker exploding in mud or water looks like slow motion? Well, look no further than this video that almost has a Mr. Wizard feel.

Screw 21 guns! 320,000 firecrackers is the way to go when paying tribute to a lost loved one. It may not have looked very pretty initially but a whole crap load of tiny explosions makes up for that.

We will all die eventually, yes, but now we know what will kill us: Aging pipelines! Well, not the pipelines specifically, so much as the explosions that will occur when natural gas leaks from those aging pipelines and then sparks and blows up, as happened in Allentown, Pa. on Thursday, killing six. There is, according to The Wall Street Journal, a "growing consensus that the U.S. has a problem with aging infrastructure," also, "federal investigators... are concerned about the accuracy of utility records on pipelines they operate"; a bill has been proposed to improve pipeline safety but it's unclear whether Republicans will support it. Of course. Look: Just don't light any matches for a while, okay? [WSJ via TDB]

Firefighters responded to a burning cab last evening on the Upper East Side, only to have it explode right in front of them. It was all captured on video by a passenger from another passing taxi.

Last night in Philadelphia, a news crew caught footage of a massive gas main explosion that killed one person and left five injured. It happened just after a Philadelphia Gas Works truck reported to the scene for a gas leak.

Just how far away do you need to set a video camera from a small wooden house loaded dynamite? Apparently farther than this.

Here's video of a manhole cover exploding in the West Village in the early morning of the West Village.

A pedestrian was shocked to see a 15-foot explosion blow away a West Village manhole cover the other day. But not too shocked to start filming! Video after the jump, in case you're wondering whether it's safe outdoors, post snowpocalypse.

Fireworks in a snowman, filmed, packaged as a news report, accompanied by Hans Zimmer's Inception score. If you're on the east coast of the U.S. today, go make your self one of these (but bigger).

A "criminal gang" trying to steal fuel punctured an oil pipeline in Mexico on Sunday, sending rivers of oil through the streets of the small village of San Martin Texmelucan and causing a massive explosion that killed 28 people. [BBC]

There are pranks, and then there are pranks that could cause irreparable bodily harm. Hiding an airbag under layers of goopy cake frosting and exploding it in your friend's face is definitely the latter. It's also really fun!

At least seven people died when a natural gas buildup caused an explosion at a Mexican hotel.