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Eight taxi drivers were shot and killed Tuesday in two separate attacks in Monterrey, Mexico. Were the country's ruthless drug cartels behind the attacks?

Rihanna may be rumored to be secretly dating her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, but she recently admitted to crushing on not one, but two of her co-stars from her acting debut, blockbuster summer action flick Battleship. In an interview with Company Magazine, the Bajan beauty admitted that she was attracted to both Alexander Skarsgard and Liam Neeson.

Bored with a very long layover in Nashville, a 24-year-old man named William Todd went on a crime spree which police called a terror, committing over 10 felonies in 9 hours including carjacking, lighting a business on fire and tasing people.

Child pornography is an escalating criminal offence in the US. Considering the volume of material available on the Internet, it is becoming difficult to track child pornographers. And with pedophiles now turning to mobile phones to access the Internet, the trade is expected to become increasingly tough to combat.

Burger King unveiled a host of new items to jazz up their outdated menu last week, but one Nashville location is privy to a delicious treat that's not available anywhere else: the Burger King Bacon Sundae.

Did NASA astronauts see UFOs during the 2006 Atlantis mission? A YouTube video, posted on April 8, shows three orbs-like structures moving around Space Shuttle Atlantis, as it floats in orbit during the 2006 mission.

A geophysicist with the US Geological Survey has said it was unlikely that a tsunami would be generated given that this type of earthquake that largely involved the horizontal movement of the earth's blocks, does not produce a column of water that could cause a tsunami.

A tsunami can be caused by a sudden disruption of the sea floor resulting in the vertical displacement of water. When earthquakes happen beneath the sea, as in the present case, water above the area, which is deformed, will undergo sudden displacement from its equilibrium position.

An 8.2-magnitude temblor struck 618 kilometers off the coast of Aceh province, epicenter of the December 2004 tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Asia. Two hours earlier, a magnitude-8.6 quake struck off Sumatra.

Here's a look at some of the rare and original images of the RMS Titanic when it set sail one hundred years ago.

Wrestling great Scott Hall, who was previously wrestled under the name Razor Ramon for World Wrestling Entertainment, was arrested once again on Friday for allegedly choking his girlfriend, Lisa Howell.

The FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list got a bit of a shake-up today when alleged child pornographer Eric Justin Toth was added to the list. So how does a fugitive make it on the list?

George Zimmerman's lawyers announced on Tuesday that they are stepping down from representing him in the shooting case of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager. They said at a Florida news conference that they are dropping Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch captain, as a client after they lost contact with him and he spoke with a television talk show host and contacted a prosecutor. The lawyers had expressly told Zimmerman not to have contact with anyone, the Washington Post reported....

The next installment in Activision’s first person shooter franchise, “Call of Duty,” may be revealed in the near future, according to a leak over the weekend. A logo for the game with the date April 28th underneath leads fans to believe that more information on the next “Black Ops” will be unveiled soon.

Usher is not dead, despite reports that he was killed in a car crash on Tuesday. He is just the latest in a long string of internet death hoax victims. He appears to be doing just fine, as he reportedly visited Disneyland on Tuesday and has tweeted that he is alive.

Tammy Lynn Michaels has filed papers claiming her ex-wife, singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge owes her more than the $23,000 she receives a mother for spousal support. However, Etheridge also filed legal documents against Michaels claiming she had burned one of their children with a cigarette.

Braving hazardous weather conditions, 383 Pakistani military personnel and 69 civilians are working day and night on rescue efforts at the location where an avalanche on Saturday buried 124 soldiers and 11 civilians at an army battalion headquarters in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.

One clever fan of “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” has taken his obsession outside the virtual world and into the live-action one. A real life parody of Bethesda’s free roam RPG has surfaced onto the Internet on April 7th, and has accumulated more than a million views in less than three days.

Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies,

A video of a mysterious saucer-shaped flying object has created quite a stir online, with some enthusiasts calling the sighting a real UFO, while most people have simply called the video a Hoax.

A giant fireball streaked across the sky in the middle of the day, much to the wonder and awe of the Texans who witnessed the event.

Jessica Rae Sacco's murder suspect, Matthew Puccio, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on Tuesday, MSNBC reported.

Woodpeckers pound their heads against trees with a force that would cause any other animal debilitating brain damage. A new study reveals why they are left unharmed.

Tracy Granger said when her pickup truck took a 350-foot plunge down an icy mountainside in the Angeles National Forest she had to use telepathy to get help.

BioWare has just released the ‘Mass Effect 3’ Resurgence Pack, a downloadable content extension to the widely-controversial RPG game. The pack will hit Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC players today, and is one of the efforts made by the developers to satisfy fans who have expressed dissatisfaction with the game.

To date, the University of Pittsburgh has received over two dozen bomb threats in recent weeks. The administration has been its best to keep the students calm, but authorities have yet come up with one suspect.

George Zimmerman has purportedly established a website seeking online donations for living expenses and a possible legal defense should he be charged in the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

Reuters photographer Bobby Yip captured pictures of workers at the Kim Jong-suk Pyongyang Silk Mill in Pyongyang April 9. The factory is named after the wife of North Korea founder Kim Il-sung and appears to employ women exclusively on the factory floor.

In anticipation of the return of Glee following a month-and-a-half-long hiatus, excited fans expressed their delight on Twitter, causing the hashtag #gleeisback to trend worldwide on Tuesday morning. The new episode, titled Big Brother, airs tonight at 8 p.m. on Fox.