Amrutha Gayathri

An Australian saltwater crocodile in a park near Sydney showed his disapproval of a noisy lawnmower by snatching it away from his keepers into his pool. The 5-meter long crocodile Elvis, guarded the machine for about an hour before the keepers could retrieve it, badly chewed up, which also claimed two of the reptile's teeth.

The shocking murder-suicide rampage by a Santa-suited gunman, killing six of his relatives before shooting himself in Dallas, Texas, on Christmas morning has been alleged to be an Islamic honor killing.

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul is absolutely not an anti-Semite even though he is most certainly anti-Israeli in general and wishes that the Israeli state did not exist at all, according to his former aide.

Controversial Egyptian blogger, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, whose nude photographs shocked her country, has asked those of her countrywomen who wish to remove their veils to send her photographs of their faces, to be published online.

The mental health curriculum of a number of Israeli academic institutions has stirred up a controversy by introducing a textbook which states homosexuality as a disorder that should be treated to aid normal sexual development.

Dutch actor and stage performer, Johannes Heesters, often dubbed as Hitler's favorite, has died at the age of 108.

Kim Jong-il's successor will have his finger on north Korea's nuclear button.

The myth-builders of North Korea... those who ensure the divine aura of the dictatorial Kim dynasty never fades... have a new task. They must raise Kim Jong-Un - the third son of former ruler Kim Jong-il and his heir apparent - to the status of a quasi-god, so as to make the unelected leader's governance unchallenged.

Kim Jong Un, the heir apparent of North Korea and the youngest son of the dead tyrant Kim Jong-il, is already on the way of becoming the great successor inheriting all that made his father a ludicrous leader. Jong Un issued his first military order shortly after the death of his father, in an act displaying his authority over the reclusive nation's armed forces. Prior to announcing his father's death news on Monday, Jong Un ordered all military units to stop field exercises and tra...

Following the House of Representatives' rejection of legislation to extend the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for two months, on Tuesday the White House took to social media asking people to comment on what the rejection meant to them. For an average taxpayer earning $50,000 a year, terminating the tax cuts could mean an extra $1000 in Social Security tax from Jan. 1, 2012. When broken down that is about $40 for a pay period of two weeks.

Two teams of researchers, involved in the creation of a modified version of the contagious H5N1 virus (an act funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, according to The Independent) have been asked by the administration to withhold key information to prevent potential bio-weapon threats.

Commenting on the shocking photograph of a woman, stripped by soldiers, during the clashes between Egypt's armed forces and anti-military protesters, Egyptian Sheikh Khaled el-Gendy said that the woman was responsible for whatever happened, by being in the protest in the first place.

Three members of a Ukrainian feminist group have alleged that officials of the Belarussian KGB kidnapped and forced them to strip naked, inside a forest, for staging topless protests against the country's dictatorship.

Even as the controversy surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continues, the bipartisan coalition of lawmakers were put in an awkward situation when they were forced to vote for protecting online pornographic material, in order to prevent a legal loophole in the anti-piracy act.

The secrecy shrouding the death of Kim Jong-il doesn't seem to surprise many, given the adamantly reclusive politics played by this cult leader of North Korea. However, the troubled Asian nation, has achieved what is considered almost impossible under the watchful eyes of neighboring South Korea and the U.S. Until the North Korean Central News Agency decided to announce the death of Kim, the South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials had absolutely no clue that something rather critical was...

Graphic images of the clashes between Egypt's armed forces and the anti-military protesters continued to shock the world on Sunday, the third consecutive day of ongoing fight, which have left ten protestors dead and 505 others injured; 81 of whom admitted to hospital. Total of 106 security troop members including three high ranking officials were also injured as demonstrators hurled stones and crude bombs at the armed forces, Egyptian officials said.

The leader died on a train, which he greatly preferred over an airplane while travelling. He was morbidly scared of flying and, though his death presumably had nothing to do with the train, one can't miss the irony of his death.

A Mississippi resident, who threatened to kill President Obama and to blow up a hospital, has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison.

For the first time in 50 years, a middle-aged woman from the Sumter County of South Carolina, has been infected with human rabies, according to a statement by the state's health officials.

With a number of protests targeting the ruling party in Russia and alleging them of election fraud, the past few months have been less than smooth for the Russians. Whatever the case may be, the F-word is probably the last thing one would expect to appear on Twitter, particularly in the feed of a top international leader, in this case President Medvedev.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's commentary expressing doubts about the Israeli democratic setup, which came hot on the heels of two earlier instances of top U.S. officials suggesting Israel lacked dedication towards the Palestinian peace process, has sparked a an uproar in Israel and among American Jewish groups.

The mysterious V-shaped stone carvings discovered on the bedrock in the oldest section of Jerusalem have left Israeli archaeologists puzzled, who are unable arrive at a theory explaining its nature.

In a ridiculously repressive and absurd proposal, an Islamic cleric residing in Europe has banned women from touching or being anywhere close to bananas and cucumbers, in a bid to avoid sexual thoughts.

The recent discovery of an apparently inhabitable blue planet, Kepler 22-b, orbiting a star similar to the Sun, by NASA's Kepler Mission, has persuaded the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to advance its activities to verify the probabilities of spotting alien life forms on its surface.

There is nothing more unromantic than performing background checks on a potential date, but tales of dating abuse continue to horrify us, prompting governments across the world to introduce controversial regulations which mandates criminal background checks for every user signing up with dating agencies. The potential for abuse in state regulation of dating agencies is huge, as people could demand confidential information of others without proper justification.

Members of a neo-Nazi cell alleged to have killed at least 10 people in Germany between 2000 and 2006 had distributed an anti-Semitic version of the popular board game Monopoly called Pogromly, in which the playing field constitutes of Nazi symbols, German authorities said.

Close on the heels of a firestorm raised by the nude photographs of Egyptian Internet activist, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, a Tunisian actress has stirred up a similar controversy by posing semi-nude for a local magazine.

The initial signs from Myanmar, following U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's meeting with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and with the president Thein Sein, a former junta member, indicate a step in right direction.

If Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain's wife Gloria Cain is not contemplating a drastic step (read divorce) she is poised to win this year's 'Stand by Your Man No Matter What' Award -- an honor which we initially thought would go to Huma Abedin, the loving wife of former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, who had to step down following a sexting scandal.