Matador cheats death at festival after bull's horn blinds him in one eye and paralyses half his face

A Spanish matador has been blinded in his left eye and paralysed down that side of his face after he was horrifically gored during a bullfight.

The bull's horn pierced Juan Jose Padilla's jaw and emerged through his left eye socket during the grizzly incident at the northeastern city of Zaragoza's Fiestas Del Pilar event yesterday.

With blood gushing from his head, he was helped out of the ring screaming 'I can't see, I can't see'.

Caught: The bull's horn pierced Juan Jose Padilla's jaw and emerged through his left eye socket during the grizzly incident at the northeastern city of Zaragoza's Fiestas Del Pilar

La Familia leader captured without a shot fired - Mexican claims major drug 'hit'

La Familia leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, has been arrested and Mexican authorities contend that the group's reign in the state of Michoacán has come to an end. Federal police escort one of nearly 50 suspects of two major drug cartels to a news

£1.7m and you can save your eyes: Iranian woman blinded in acid attack names her price

It will cost an Iranian man convicted of throwing acid in the face of a fellow student two million euros - or £1.7million - to escape a court-ordered blinding.

‘I announced that I want two million euros to guarantee my life and my future, and not for treatment,’ Ameneh Bahrami told the Arman newspaper.

‘It is only then that I will give up qesas (retributive justice) against Majid, although they said - and I hope it is true - that the sentence will be carried out next week,’ she added

 Revenge: Ameneh Bahrami was left with horrific scars after Majid Movahedi threw sulphuric acid in her eyes after he had begged her in vain to marry him. She is seen here holding photos of how she used to look

Twisted: Majid Movahedi had stalked Ameneh before his heinous crime

Gang-raped for two days, tortured and strangled: Libyan woman finally reveals full horrific details of attack by Gaddafi's thugs

* Iman al-Obeidi says she was held hostage by gang of 15 men, including a cousin of Colonel Gaddafi

A Libyan woman who publicly accused a gang of pro-Gaddafi militiamen - including Colonel Gaddafi's cousin - of gang-raping her has, for the first time, revealed the horrifying details of her alleged attack.

Iman al-Obeidi claimed she was forced into a militia car at a checkpoint, driven to a 'palace' and brutalised by 15 drunk men over a two-day period.

After bursting into a hotel full of foreign journalists to reveal her ordeal more than two weeks ago, the 28-year-old has been charged with slander by the Libyan government and she claims the regime is refusing to allow her to leave Tripoli to return to her family.

Interview: Iman al-Obeidi finally spoke to a CNN reporter about her ordeal after being detained by Gaddafi's troops.Ordeal: She described being raped by 15 men over two days before finally escaping

Intimidation: A Libyan government official grabs al-Obeidi as she reveals details of her attack to journalists

Scuffle: Sky News reporter Lisa Holland, bottom left, and FT journalist Charles Clover, back, attempt to protect al-Obeidi as she is threatened by government minders as she tries to tell her story

Lone gunman shoots six dead in Dutch shopping mall

A policeman in a bomb disposal suit checks the scene of the shooting.A woman is comforted after the shooting in Alphen aan den Rijn,

A lone gunman shot dead six people with an automatic weapon as he walked calmly through a Dutch shopping mall yesterday, and threatened to blow up three other shopping malls before eventually killing himself.

Panicked shoppers ran for cover or hid in shops after the gunman opened fire at random at the mall in the small town of Alphen aan den Rijn, some 46km south of Amsterdam.

Dressed in camouflage trousers and a bomber jacket, the gunman began shooting in a parking lot before moving inside the mall. Ten people were wounded, some seriously.

“I saw a woman I know walking at the other side,” Marjolein Nieuwland told the ANP news agency. “She wanted to enter a shop when a tall young man approached and shot her in cold blood.
“He walked calmly and shot through the windows of the shop where I was hiding.

“I also saw a woman in her motorised wheelchair shot in the head, and at the Albert Heijn (grocery store) there was a young man. Also dead. Later I heard that was the shooter,” she said.

Officials named the gunman as Tristan van der Vlis, 24, a local man who lived in the town with his father.

Police said gunshots were still ringing out when they arrived at the scene on receiving an emergency call shortly after midday.

Hunt for Serial Killer Turns Up More Bones Along Long Island Beaches- Bones Found at Jones Beach; Unclear if Human - Buffalo native amongst LI killer's victims

The heavily thicketed ground that borders a highway along a stretch of New York beaches where as many as 10 bodies have been found is now being examined as the disposal site

Beauty student puts on brave face after being beaten to pulp by her boxer boyfriend

A beauty student who was so badly battered by her boyfriend that medics couldn't tell what sex she was has spoken for the first about the attack.

Tirion Lewis was left in a coma for a month - and has spent 18 months trying to recover from the brutal attack by 6ft 2in bareknuckle fighter Wayne Fox.

The 20-year-old - who was 19 at the time of the attack - was yesterday in a specialist brain clinic where trauma specialists are still trying to help her get back to a normal life.

Recovering: Tirion Lewis's physical scars have healed - although the university student is still undergoing treatment after suffering post traumatic stress disorder, memory loss and epilepsy

Horrific attack: Tirion was 19 when she was savagely beaten after being kidnapped and attacked by boyfriend Wayne Fox

Myanmar bars foreign monitors, reporters from poll

Myanmar, Oct 18 — International poll monitors and foreign journalists will be barred from Myanmar’s first election in 20 years, its military rulers said on Monday, deepening concern that next month’s poll will be a sham.

The United States, Britain and Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbours had urged the junta to allow independent election monitors at the Nov. 7 election, which critics say will cement the military’s grip on power under the guise of civilian rule.

Members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party wait for guests in front of posters of national hero Burmese general Aung San, father of Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, at the party headquarters May 27, 2009, before a ceremony to mark the 19th anniversary of the 1990 general election where the NLD won 392 of 485 parliamentary seats.

Moment grieving mother fights off violent mugger's attack as he tries to steal her phone... with a video of her dead baby on it

This is the horrifying moment a mother is punched to the ground by a violent mugger trying to steal her purse.

But the brave woman fights the thug off in a desperate bid to keep hold of her purse - because inside it was a recording of her dead baby calling her 'Mommy'.

The unnamed woman was punched in the face and dragged along the street in the Venice beach area of Los Angeles.

One of the possessions in the bag was a mobile phone with recordings of her infant daughter Minty on it.

Ready to die: Footage shows the unnamed mother and her baby daughter, Minty, who died ten weeks ago of cancer

Not letting go: The defiant woman is dragged into the road by her attacker

CCTV footage show Queensland Police brutality torture in session.

Police release shocking CCTV video of officer inflicting water torture on suspect

Shocking video footage of a 'cowardly' Australian police officer abusing detainees has been released.

Ben Price is first shown throwing a 21-year-old woman to the floor, then pulling her up by her hair.

The ex-Queensland police officer is then shown committing an horrific five-minute assault on a 23-year-old man.

Price can be seen punching and kneeing a bleeding, handcuffed Timothy Steele, 23, in May 25, 2008.

He puts Mr Steele in a brutal spine lock and leaves the commercial diver with a broken nose and two blackened eyes, cuts and bruising to the face.

Other police officers look on - but none intervene - as Price stuffs a running fire hose into his victim's mouth, nearly drowning him.
 

Benjamin Price (pictured) was jailed for 27 months earlier this week after pleading guilty to four counts of serious assault

CCTV footage: Another video shows Price assaulting 21-year-old barmaid Renee Toms

Torture: Benjamin Price was caught on CCTV shoving a hose pipe down the throat of 24-year-old Timothy Steele

'Depraved' gang leader who forced 91-year-old woman to perform sex act on her elderly carer is jailed indefinitely

A depraved gang leader who filmed himself humiliating a 91-year-old woman and her carer at knife-point has been jailed indefinitely for an attack that filled a judge with 'utter revulsion'.

Michael Lewis, 21, who led the Brixton Hill Blood gang in south London, is believed to have made the film as a 'trophy' to show other members.

The fiend broke into the 91-year-old woman's flat and filmed her carrying out sex acts with her elderly carer before cutting the phone line and threatening to return if they called the police.

Lewis, known as 'Joker 187 General' - 187 being the code for murder in the US - will serve at least eight years before he can be considered for parole after being branded a 'danger to the public'.

Afghan teenager whose mutilated face shocked the world unveils her new image

An Afghan teenager who was horribly mutilated by her husband under Taliban rule was all smiles as she unveiled her new prosthetic nose for the first time.

Aisha, 19, shocked the world when she appeared on the cover of Time Magazine to lift the veil on the plight of many women in Afghanistan.

Yesterday, she bravely faced the public wearing a prosthetic nose - one that gives her some idea of how she will look after having reconstructive surgery.

Facing reality: Aisha's photo was on the front cover of Time Magazine in August 2010

Recovering: Aisha has received counselling following her traumatic experiences

Nobel euphoria fails to mask tough reality in China

The euphoria overseas and in some domestic circles at dissident Liu Xiaobo’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize has failed to mask deeper unease that his victory will likely bring little change in Communist Party-ruled China.

Liu, 54, has been a thorn in the government’s side since 1989 when he joined student protesters on a hunger strike days before the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement and has been in and out of jail ever since.

Protesters demonstrate outside the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong October 8, 2010 demanding the release of jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo. Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010

Cult leader who styled himself 'Black Jesus' convicted of raping young 'flower girls'

A cult leader known as 'Black Jesus' has been found guilty of raping young 'flower girls' belonging to his Papua New Guinea sect.

Steven Tari, 38, avoided a murder charge even though villigers claimed he had sacrificed at least three of the girls and drunk their blood.

The Lutheran pastor's first hit the headlines when he was captured in 2007 after eluding police for more than a year by moving from village to village in the Transgogol area of Madang province.

Guilty: Steven Tari (pictured) has been convicted by a court in Madang of four counts of rape

Male escort who visited Saudi prince's hotel room stripped to give him a massage and was paid in £50 notes, court told

A male escort told the Saudi Prince Old Bailey murder trial today that he stripped to give the prince a massage but could not be sure there was a 'sexual element' to it.

Student Pablo Silva said he had visited the hotel room of Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud two weeks before he allegedly murdered Bandar Abdulaziz, 32, during a ferocious attack with a 'sexual element' on February 15.

The 34-year-old denies murder and a second count of grievous bodily harm with intent in relation to an alleged assault on Mr Abdulaziz in a lift on January 22.

His lawyer, John Kelsey-Fry QC, today denied the suggestion that the two men were in a gay relationship.

Prosecutors claim two male escorts had visited the prince at the Landmark Hotel in Marylebone, central London.

Trial: Al Saud, left, on his way to City of Westminster magistrates court in a prison van for his original hearing following the death of Bandar Abdulaziz, right

Terror on campus: Students dive for cover as gunman carrying AK47 opens fire in library of University of Texas

A man wearing a ski mask opened fire with an AK-47 inside a University of Texas library yesterday morning, then fatally shot himself, police said.

Colton Tooley, a 19-year-old maths sophomore wearing a ski mask and a dark suit, began shooting near a fountain in front of the UT Tower.

The site is infamous for being the site of one of America's deadliest shooting rampages more than four decades ago, when a gunman ascended the clock tower and fired down on dozens of people.

He then turned the gun on himself. No one else was killed or injured - despite there being many people around.

The nearly 50,000-student campus was put on lockdown while officers with bomb-sniffing dogs carried out a building-by-building manhunt for a possible second suspect.

 

Troops get into position after the shooting. Police said the gunman opened fire then fatally shot himself, but police were searching for a possible second suspect

Austin PD officers stand at the intersection of 21st and Speedway, in front of the Perry-Castaneda Library, where shots were fired Tuesday morning

Wife accused of murdering her cheating husband by setting him on fire 'only wanted to burn his genitals'

A woman who believed her husband was having an affair murdered him by pouring petrol over his body and setting him alight.

However, Rajini Narayan claimed to neighbour that she had only wanted to burn his private parts.

The 46-year-old pleaded not guilty today at the South Australian Supreme Court to the murder of her husband of 20 years Satish Narayan, 47, in 2008.

She said that although he had subjected her to physical and emotional abuse during that time, she still loved him as a 'god'.

Defendant: Rajani Narayan told neighbours after the blaze that it 'wasn't an accident', a court heard in Adelaide

Man shoots dead wife and four stepchildren before turning the gun on himself but spare his 2 own children

A father shot dead his wife and four stepchildren but spared his two biological children before turning the gun on himself.

Authorities say seven children were inside the south Florida home early on Monday morning when 41-year-old Patrick Dell killed 36-year-old Natasha Whyte-Dell.

She and four children were pronounced dead at the scene. All had been shot.

A body is removed from the Florida home where a man killed his wife and four stepchildren before turning the gun on himself. He spared his biological children

Video shows militants stoning woman in Pakistan

Turbaned men in Pakistan gather around a woman with a black hood over her head, pick up large rocks and repeatedly throw them at her until she lies motionless, stretched along the ground.

The stoning in the northwest of the country was apparently carried out by Pakistani Taliban militants, incensed because she was seen out with a man. It was shown in a video obtained by a Dubai television station.

The footage is a stark reminder that despite a series of military offensives the military said had weakened insurgents, militants still control areas of northwest Pakistan and impose their harsh version of Islam at will.

 Above is a example of stoning done.