Rajasthan, India - Forest officials in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan were forced to tranquilize a thirsty leopard after the animal's head got caught in a metal water pot......»»

An unelected, all-male village council in India has decided to punish a man who eloped with a married woman by ordering his two sisters to be raped. The two women, ages 23 and 15, fled their village in the Baghpat district after the decision was handed do.....»»

Two unlicensed doctors are facing charges for performing botched surgeries on a man's penis, leaving it mutilated. A Miami judge has charged Nery Carvajal-Gonzalez, 48, for unlicensed health care causing serious injury, CBS Miami reports. S.....»»

Malaysian authorities said Thursday they were "almost certain" a piece of an airliner wing that washed ashore on Reunion Island, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, came from a Boeing 777 -- the model of a Malaysian Airlines plane that vanis.....»»

DELAND, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida woman says she was shot in the leg while sitting at a café on Independence Day, but she didn't realize it until doctors found the bullet five days later.........»»

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - It is not easy being a vampire, and even harder to come out of the coffin to a physician or therapist for fear they will misinterpret the habit of ingesting the blood of willing donors or succumb to stereotyping, a study finds. .....»»

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - It is not easy being a vampire, and even harder to come out of the coffin to a physician or therapist for fear they will misinterpret the habit of ingesting the blood of willing donors or succumb to stereotyping, a study finds......»»

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Doctors at a Central California hospital have delivered a fourth set of triplets in the last four weeks.........»»

UFO sighting alert: Indian boy claims of capturing "perfectly disc shaped flying saucer" on camera.....»»

A fisherman at a South New Jersey lake caught an exotic fish native to South America with human-like teeth and an overblown reputation for munching on male genitalia. Ron Rossi caught a pacu -- a tropical freshwater fish typically found in the Amazon Riv.....»»

For any numbers of reasons, India has no shortage of tragedy. To name just three — economic disparity drives crime, insufficient education breeds various abuses and corruption in the police force leads to lax enforcement. Just read any major Indian .....»»

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Doctors at a central California hospital have seen a trio of triplets born this month and expect the streak to continue.........»»

In a bid to reduce the spread of disease, the Indian state of Maharashtra may institute a new punishment for public spitting: sweeping the corridors of a government building. Spitting is already banned in civic hospitals in the state, and The Times of I.....»»

By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, June 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzanian police have arrested a 44-year-old man accused of trying to sell his albino niece to undercover security officials posing as witch doctors as part of a natio.....»»

DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian police have arrested a 44-year-old man accused of trying to sell his albino niece to undercover security officials posing as witch doctors as part of a nationwide crackdown on the illegal trade in albino body parts used in black .....»»

A new study revealed that brushing one's teeth can be a crappy experience. If you know why, take the Fark Weird News Quiz and brush up on your weird news knowledge -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject.....»»

Opening a new frontier in transplant surgery, Texas doctors have done the world's first partial skull and scalp transplant to help a man who suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment. Doctors from Houston Methodist Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer.....»»

Indian officials are used to nabbing spies from Pakistan at villages near the countries' borders, but the capture of one last Thursday is making headlines for one reason - the alleged spy is a pigeon. Indian officials are used to nabbing spies from Pak.....»»

BERLIN (AP) — Doctors say the week-old quadruplets born prematurely to 65-year-old Annegret Raunigk in Berlin are still in intensive care, but have been gaining a little weight and are being given their mother's milk through feeding tubes. The babies w.....»»

There must have been a four-leaf clover in those weeds. A 27-year-old landscaper escaped with barely a scratch after a nearly 3-inch nail hurtled into his eye when he accidentally hit it with a weed-whacker. Doctors who removed the nail at Boston's Massa.....»»