A woman had the word "snitch" burned into her face with a branding iron in apparent retaliation for helping police in a domestic violence case, authorities said.

Thankfully, they caught the guys. picked by kxmk 2 years ago

An Indiana woman with advanced throat cancer says she had to divorce her husband to afford a life-saving surgery. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

It's not every day someone claims to have been hired to kill you. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

A MAN who was horrifically disfigured after falling on electrified rail tracks today spoke of his joy as he revealed his new look following a face transplant. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Milan has discovered some unexpected forms of liquid crystals of ultrashort DNA molecules immersed in water, providing a new scenario for a key step in the emergence of life on Earth. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A woman who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched.

He was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Without doubt, the oldest woman on the planet is Sarah Dosova of Kazakhstan who this year in matter of days will turn 130. In her life, she had never visited a doctor, never ate sweets. More details and pictures at The Sun (warning: some have trouble viewing this site because of popups). picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

A woman who suffered three heart attacks and had no brain waves for 17 1/2 hours was revived and is now very much alive, despite rigor mortis having started to set in.

Rigor Mortis:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigor_mortis picked by lunasol 2 years ago

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
*this is great* picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Apparently each episode of Half Life 2 will be longer then the previous one. picked by whi73rav3n 3 years ago

A British holiday plane was diverted to France after a couple became embroiled in a "drunken" air-rage fight at 35,000ft over the Mediterranean.Eyewitnesses said the woman passenger "took a bite out of the face" of her boyfriend or husband. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

Have Mars landers been destroying signs of life? Instead of identifying chemicals that could point to life, NASA's robot explorers may have been toasting them by mistake. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

The woman with Proteus Syndrome has already met orthopedic surgeon Dr William Ertl and prosthetic maker Kevin Carroll to figure out what has to be done with her giant legs. Mandy Sellars' legs are 4 times bigger than the normal size that make her life difficult. picked by chappy 1 year ago

It looked like a scene from a comedy sketch show - the moment a cow attempted to leap over a woman - and the donkey she was with appeared to collapse to the floor laughing. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A borough woman ran over both of her legs in the drive-through lane at McDonald’s. Police are investigating how this accident could have happened. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

A married Muslim woman has been warned her life is in danger after a man she is suspected of having an affair with was blinded in an 'honour' attack. picked by sharon22 4 months ago

A Russian woman got so upset by the news that her boyfriend intended to leave her that she tied several firecrackers to his penis and exploded them picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

...And lives to tell the Tale!

(*Insert your "Talk about a Headache" Jokes here*) picked by MuppetmakeR 2 years ago

Thanks to the skills of artists who work on cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what the Oriental Institute’s mummy Meresamun may have looked like in real life. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago