A shoplifter looking to make a quick getaway from a Dutch supermarket after stealing a packet of meat left police a crucial piece of evidence — his 12-year-old son. In his haste the 45-year-old thief made a solo dash to his car, batting away a supermarket worker who had flung himself on the vehicles’ bonnet [...]

A man in Australia is auctioning his life — his house, his job, his clothes and his friends — on eBay, after his marriage broke up, saying he wants to start a new life. “It’s time to move. A completely fresh start. I want to see where life takes me,” Ian Usher, 44, told Australian [...]

A medieval cathedral in Spain’s Mediterranean port of Valencia has installed two indoor traffic lights to help control the influx of visitors expected during Holy Week which begins on Sunday. The traffic lights were placed at the bottom of the 207 steps of Valencia Cathedral’s octagonal bell tower, which offers sweeping views of the city, [...]

Two Australian women who bludgeoned a British girl and then kissed as she lay dying have been jailed for life. The body of Stacey Mitchell, 16, was found in December 2006, in a wheelie bin in Perth, Western Australia, days after her family reported her missing. Lesbian lovers Jessica Stasinowsky, 20, and Valerie Parashumti, 19, [...]

High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of [...]

An Italian man was jailed for more than two years for putting pornographic pictures of his ex-girlfriend on the Internet and sending them out in more than 15,000 emails. The 32-year-old man had created a Web site that appeared to show his ex-girlfriend offering sexual favours and erotic games, with her phone number also on [...]

For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. Using state-by-state data, the report says 2,319,258 Americans [...]