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By JOHN COLES A MAN who beat his lover’s 13-month-old child to death was jailed for life yesterday. Andrew Lloyd, 23, swung Aaron Gilbert round by his feet — smashing his head into a wall. Aaron — beaten so badly neighbours said he looked like the Elephant Man — died of head injuries...

Hell Pizza is not concerned by a call by a Catholic newspaper to boycott its products in response to a recent condom mail-out. To promote its Lust pizza, Hell distributed 170,000 condoms, along with explicit instructions on their use, to homes around the country. The move prompted hundreds of...

A 20-year-old Daytona Beach, Fla., man is accused of killing his grandmother by strangling her with an extension cord being used for holiday lights and then slitting her throat apparently over money for drugs, according to a Local 6 News report. Investigators said Linda Hummer was found in a...

Patrick Jackson BBC News Benedict XVI, the shy former disciple of that most media-friendly of popes, John Paul II, has entered an area of the mass communications market that his predecessor apparently never tapped. The Polish pope could easily have filled out a wall calendar had he...

By Steve Schmadeke Staff writer An animal-rights group is asking that the Will County man charged last week with having sex with a cockapoo be banned from further contact with animals. Dwayne D. Page, 27, was charged with two felonies after repeatedly having sex with an 18-year-old female...

Wheaton North Student Said To Have Put Semen In Communal Salad Dressing Mike Puccinelli Reporting (CBS) WHEATON, Ill. A student at Wheaton North High School is accused in a vulgar case of food tampering. Police say he put his bodily fluid into salad dressing in the school cafeteria. CBS 2...

The Morning Call A former Allentown woman who admitted that she ordered her 12-year old son and 13-year-old daughter to take pictures of her in seductive nude poses showed up in court today wearing jeans with "Booty" emblazoned on the left rear pocket and "Licious" on the right in what appeared...

By KIMBERLY EDDS The Orange County Register They were drawn together by the grinding guitars of the punk rock scene in Long Beach and Huntington Beach. But it was neo-Nazism and methamphetamine that bonded their brotherhood. A highly organized and corrupt leadership helped Public Enemy Number 1...

By Vanessa Gera BERLIN (AP) - Henrico Frank went from being just another of Germany's four million unemployed to a celebrity overnight. All it took was a haircut and a shave. Now, Frank may even have landed himself a steady job, thanks to an unexpected run-in this week with a politician in...

ROME (AP) - The Vatican is getting ready to battle it out with priests in Rome. On a soccer pitch. The inaugural Clericus Cup will kick off in February 2007 with the Vatican one of 16 teams taking part. The final will take place in the Italian capital at the end of June, organizers said...

OTTAWA (CP) - A slip of the finger by a Liberal MP has offered a rare behind-the-scenes look at political jockeying in the party. Leader Stephane Dion hasn't named a deputy leader yet, but an unintentionally public e-mail shows at least one of his MPs is very interested in the job. Caucus...

By Alireza Ronaghi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran hailed nationwide elections to local councils and a powerful clerical body as a success on Saturday and said healthy voter turnout would help the Islamic Republic confront its Western foes. Friday's vote was the first popularity test for President...

A 16-year-old boy who raped a woman after watching pornography online has been detained indefinitely. Paul Owens, of Hart Street, Southport, denied rape but was convicted after a trial at Liverpool Crown Court. The 39-year-old victim was attacked by Owens - who was riding a bike along Town...

- (12-14) 19:12 PST Fond Du Lac, Wis. (AP) -- Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. "It was definitely a...

Associated Press BOSSIER CITY, La. - A puppy chewed off four of a baby girl's toes next to her sleeping parents, who were then booked on charges of child desertion and criminal negligence, police said Monday. Mary Shannon Hansche, 22, and Christopher Wayne Hansche, 26, told police they woke...

Balls up ... willy on roof of posh Yarm School, as seen from space By BEN ASHFORD PRANKSTERS drew a willy on the roof of a top school that was so large it could be spotted from SPACE. But it went unnoticed until it was seen on Google Earth. A group of ex-pupils was last night blamed...

- By RON WORD, Associated Press Writer (12-14) 01:23 PST Starke, Fla. (AP) -- Death penalty opponents criticized the execution of a convicted murderer who took more than half an hour to die and needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals. Angel Nieves Diaz, 55, convicted of murdering a...

KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) - A King County sheriff's deputy responding to a complaint about rats at a Kirkland-area home discovered what is believed to be the homeowner's body, being eaten by rats. On Monday, the deputy found a decomposed body, believed to be that of 67-year-old Thomas Harold Stone...

Today in HistoryDec 14 1503 Nostradamus born. If you write vague enough prophecies, they will fool almost anyone. Dec 14 1944 Lupe Velez, Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire" of the 1940's, commits suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. Contrary to her plans of being found laid out on the...

By Lars Paronen TORONTO, Dec 14 (Reuters Life!) - North Americans fed up with being ribbed over their geographical incompetence are trying to get even -- pitting their skills against Britain in a transatlantic geography quiz. Two geography enthusiasts from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean...