A man was jailed Thursday on charges he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Adroit shooters among us were able to realise just such size-shifting exploits – or at least the illusion of having done so. Places around the globe provide backdrops for these fine examples of forced perspective. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

A 16-year-old pupil at a school in Malaysia has been forced as a punishment to chain-smoke 40 cigarettes in two hours after he was caught with a cigarette. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

At the age of 14, the girl was forced to marry her 19 year old cousin. picked by wickedsmart 3 years ago

About 100 million light-years away, in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish), three galaxies are playing a game of gravitational give-and-take that might ultimately lead to their merger into one enormous entity. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

The leader of the largest US polygamist sect who arranged a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin, told the girl it was her religious duty to give herself "mind, body and soul" to her husband. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A 39-year-old woman forcefully had her 13-year-old daughter's genitalia pierced to make it uncomfortable for her to have sex, the girl told jurors in her mother's child abuse trial. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Officials say many of them have been sold off by their families to begging mafias, who exploit a tradition that the "rat children" are sacred offerings to Shah Daula, the shrine's 17th century Sufi saint. picked by AfroMosHi 1 year ago

James Hawkins, 31, of Memphis, TN, is charged with first-degree murder in the death last year of his longtime girlfriend, Charlene Gaither, 28. But that's only half of his depravity. picked by Bornbad 7 months ago

Prison guard forced out of her job because she was too sexy wins unfair dismissal case.

Upon looking at her eyebrows... I don't get it... picked by proverb 2 months ago

A man has been jailed for 10 years for raping his teenage daughter on a regular basis for three years, even getting her to go on the Pill. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The Uniformed Firefighters Association says Brooklyn's Engine Company 245 didn't want to participate in the photo opportunity with circus elephant Suzie, part of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey show in Coney Island. But it says city officials ordered the engine company to participate. picked by kakana 3 months ago

AIRPORT security staff ordered a retired policeman to drink his own urine sample to prove it was safe. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

A Northern Territory woman today broadcast an appeal for help to stop a sexually-frustrated male emu trying to herd her into its nest. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Conjuring Orwellian images, Josephs worries the identification devices - the size of a grain of rice - could lead to a real-life Big Brother nightmare.

"I'm doing, I think, what the legislature does too little of," she said. "This is a problem on the horizon, and I want to address it before it becomes a societal disgrace." picked by kakana 5 months ago

Marcia Harvey made her son stand across the road from his school in the US city of Jacksonville, in Florida, with a sign that said “I was rude to my teacher, I can’t come to school, I’m sorry”.

Video included. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The Californian city of San Diego has been given 72 hours to remove harbour seals from a small beach area originally designated for children.

EDIT: See comments - Seals have been allowed to stay! picked by makuus 4 months ago

Michael Jackson's famed Neverland Valley Ranch in California will be foreclosed and sold on March 19 unless the pop star pays a balance of nearly $25 million, property records showed on Tuesday. picked by punthe 2 years ago

It sounds like a science fiction movie: A killer contagion threatens the Earth, but scientists save the day with a designer drug that forces the virus to mutate itself out of existence. The killer disease? Still a fiction. The drug? It could become a reality thanks to a new study by Rice University bioengineers. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A nurse in Somerset, England, was forced to resign after swearing at a patient who complained that she was not doing her job very well. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago