Daniel Tovrov

Marius Els was killed by his pet hippopotamus Humphrey on Saturday. Six year-old Humphrey attacked the South African man at his farm, repeatedly biting and gouging his owner.

Seventeen soldiers were killed in an explosion at a Revolutionary Guards arms depot in Iran on Sunday, leaving many western critics to wonder: was it an accident, or has Israel initiated their quest to destroy Iran's nuclear program?

Mexican norteno singer Diego Rivas was found murdered in the city of Culiacan, joining a growing list of folk singers killed for singing about the drug trade.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia, in the Molucca Sea around at 1:05 p.m. local time. It was centered 42 miles southwest of the town of Labuha on the island of Pulau Bacan.

Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik had his first public court hearing on Monday.

Video of Syrian Protests capture the true nature of the Assad's brutality better than any news report.

A sugarcane farm in the Philippines has been in James Ford's family for generations. It was the family business on his mother's side, and with the farm recently changing hands from one aunt to another, there was an opening for Ford to come and manage it.

Mexico's interior minister, Jose Francisco Blake Mora, was killed in a helicopter crash outside Mexico City on Friday.

United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta does not think attacking Iran would be a good idea, even if Iran is building nuclear weapons.

The death toll from Wednesday's earthquake in Turkey reached 20.

Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav was sentenced to seven years in prison for rape and sexual harassment. The decision was made by Israel's Supreme Court, upholding a prior lower-court conviction.

Michele Bachmann stood frozen at her podium aboard the USS Yorktown in Charleston, South Carolina, as a group of Occupy protestors calmly shouted at her. What should she have done instead?

President Barack Obama is headed to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hawaii this weekend, where he will meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other leaders.

In Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, a local blogger was allegedly tortured and then murdered in retaliation for posting comments about local drug cartels. The decapitated body of El Rascatripas, as he was known online, was found lying on the street near a statue of Christopher Columbus, about one mile from the Texas border.

Turkish rescue teams are busy digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings to find survivors after a 5.6 magnitude earthquake in Van.

Is the recent rate of earthquakes in Turkey, and the rest of the world, anything to be worried about?

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit near Van, Turkey on Wednesday, causing at least 18 buildings to collapse, including a six-story hotel where rescuers are now working to free 35 trapped people.

Russia attacked Tuesday's International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran's nuclear program, saying that it would not allow the United Nations to impose any punitive measures on the Islamic republic.

The student protests against tuition fee hikes in London on Wednesday are over.

Thousands of student protestors marched to London's Trafalgar Square on Wednesday against the government's plan to cut university funding.

Occupy Denver has elected a three-year-old dog named Shelby as its official leader.

Israel will be closely watching its most powerful ally's presidential race with great concentration, trying to figure out which American candidate will have its best interests in mind.

Moments after the International Atomic Energy Agency issued its report on Iran's nuclear weapons program, Iran went on the defensive, calling the finding a hoax devised by the United States.

For the first time, a transsexual woman and an openly gay man were sworn into the Polish parliament on Tuesday, as Anna Grodzka and Robert Biedron took their elected seats in Warsaw.

Iran has conclusively worked on nuclear weapons, as well as tested weapons' parts, in the past and could still be doing it, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report.

Judge William Adams, who was caught on video beating his teenaged daughter Hillary Adams for downloading music, kept his job after the video attracted the attention of the state investigators, but a group of protestors in Texas are trying to change that.

Amanda Knox's relationship with Raffaele Sollecito is officially over, the Italian said in his first televised interview.

President Obama and French President Sarkozy spoke ill of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in private. Unknown to the leaders, their comments were heard by a team of journalists. Whoops.

Drake's new album Take Care was leaked a week before its schedule release, bringing deserved attention to its producer, Just Blaze.