Officials say at least 232 people died in a nightclub fire overnight in Brazil, and that number is expected to climb. More »

A Russian chef who founded the legendary Project OGI — a popular hangout space for the country's literary elite — has reportedly confessed to murdering and dismembering his journalist wife earlier this month.

A mother in Australia was stunned to find several highly venomous snakes slithering around inside her bedroom wardrobe after they hatched from eggs brought into the Queensland home by her son a few weeks earlier.

Here is something you probably didn't know could happen to your human baby: feathers growing out of its neck.

"This is my personal experience," writes the video's uploader. "I almost died from this surgery and am having them removed this thursday."

New York and New Jersey are trying to dig their way out of the post-Sandy mess. Besides thousands stuck without heat or power, and a nor'easter on its way, the biggest problem right now is a massive gas shortage.

As investigators continued to probe the horrific death of a two-year-old Pittsburgh Zoo patron who fell into the African painted dog enclosure yesterday morning, it remains unclear if the boy died as a result of the fall or the subsequent mauling.

A CVS store in Jacksonville, Florida, has been forced to call up customers who purchased ready-to-use enemas earlier this year to inform them that their medical device may have been previously used by someone else.

The UK's Food Standards Agency has issued a warning to consumers advising caution when consuming alcoholic drinks containing liquid nitrogen after an 18-year-old girl from Heysham, Lancashire, became gravely ill last week.

A middle-aged man from New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward was shot and killed by his wife Monday morning after she mistook him for a burglar trying to break into their North Claiborne Avenue home.

A woman who was taking part in a "trash the dress" wedding photo shoot drowned last week after being pulled underwater by the weight of her own wedding gown while snapping pictures in a river near Dorwin Falls in Quebec.

Police in Idaho arrested a man last week after he allegedly posted a Craigslist ad asking random men to break into his home and rape his wife.

Police in Chicago say two teens took turns recording video on a cell phone while a third teen brutally beat a disabled man to death.

Footage of a man who was reportedly decapitated after jumping in front of train in the Dutch city of Driehuis was posted to Twitter by the teenagers who recorded it, and was quickly retweeted by many Twitter users in the Netherlands.

A South Korean woman was enjoying a plate of calamari when she suddenly felt a painful "pricking, foreign-body sensation" in her mouth. It was later revealed that twelve squid spermatophores had embedded themselves in her "tongue, cheek, and gums."

A member of the influential Imperial Irrigation District of California's Imperial Valley is under investigation for child abuse following the emergence of disturbing footage showing a man identified as Division 5 director Anthony Sanchez repeatedly striking his stepson with a belt for not being able to catch a baseball.

An 18-year-old Philadelphia teen remains in critical condition today after accidentally shooting himself in the head on a dare.

For nearly a month now, the residents of Sadiya, a small Indian town in the North-eastern state of Assam, have been living in fear of an unknown species of spider that has descended on the area without notice.

Police in Miami are still baffled by what transpired Saturday afternoon on the MacArthur Causeway's off-ramp to Biscayne Boulevard, where a naked 31-year-old Rudy Eugene was found consuming the face of another naked man.

Police in the Mexico City suburb of Ciudad Neza arrested several people who were reportedly engaging in a "drug-fueled ritual" that resulted in the gouging out of a five-year-old's eyes.