In a tragic incident in Bihar's Madhubani district, a 67-year-old retired sugar mill clerk named Ramnath Chaudhary was killed by a group of approximately 20 monkeys on August 24, 2025. While collecting fodder for his cattle in Shahpur village, Chaudhary was ambushed, knocked to

Goebbels smiled at him until he learned that Eisenstaedt was Jewish – a moment Eisenstaedt captured in this photo.

On August 15, 1961, 19-year-old East German border guard Conrad Schumann leapt over the early Berlin Wall to defect to West Berlin, an act captured in Peter Leibing’s iconic "Leap into Freedom" photograph. Stationed at Ruppiner Straße and Bernauer Straße, tasked with preventing

Iran has executed at least 841 people in 2025, a significant increase from previous years, with July alone seeing 110 executions, doubling the number from July 2024. The death penalty has been used extensively as a tool of state intimidation, disproportionately targeting ethnic

Markas Fishburne was sentenced to death in June 2024 for the 2019 first-degree murder and kidnapping of 25-year-old Aisha Levy in Jacksonville, Florida. Fishburne, who was temporarily staying with Levy and her boyfriend, pleaded guilty to stabbing, strangling, and bludgeoning

Donald James Smith was sentenced to death in May 2018 for the 2013 kidnapping, r*pe, and murder of 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle in Jacksonville, Florida. A registered s*x offender, Smith lured Cherish from a Walmart, s*xually assaulted her, and strangled her, with her body

Ryan Borgwardt, a 45-year-old Wisconsin man, was sentenced to 89 days in jail for faking his own death in a kayaking incident on Green Lake in August 2024 to start a new life with a woman he met online from Uzbekistan. Borgwardt meticulously planned his disappearance, researching

On August 30, 2025, a woman named Amaye, a food vendor, was lynched and burned alive by a mob in Kasuwan-Garba town, Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria, over allegations of blaspheming against Prophet Muhammad. The incident reportedly began when a customer

In 1983, the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a commercial airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace near Sakhalin Island, killing all 269 passengers and crew. The Boeing 747, en route from New York to Seoul, likely deviated due to navigational errors and was

Ralph Leroy Menzies, a 67-year-old Utah death row inmate, had his scheduled firing squad execution on September 5, 2025, halted by the Utah Supreme Court due to concerns about his severe dementia. Convicted in 1988 for the brutal m*rder of Maurine Hunsaker, a mother of three,

In 2002, Brian Banks, a 16-year-old high school football star at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, was falsely accused r*ping a classmate, Wanetta Gibson. The two had a consensual encounter in a school stairwell, but Gibson later claimed assault, leading to Banks' arrest. With

Scientists near the California-Oregon border are using drones equipped with loudspeakers to deter gray wolves from attacking livestock, blasting AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips like Scarlett Johansson’s lines from *Marriage Story*, and live human voices to scare the

In 2010, Luis Reyes, then 16, was sentenced to 30 years in prison (later reduced to 25 years) for his role in the 2009 r*pe and robbery of an 89-year-old woman in Port Richey, Florida. Alongside Carlos Fernandez and Johnathan Rodriguez, Reyes pleaded no contest to charges

Dan Bullock, born December 21, 1953, in Goldsboro, North Carolina, became the youngest U.S. serviceman killed in the Vietnam War at age 15. After his mother’s death, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, and at 14, falsified his birth certificate to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps on

On September 11, 2001, Port Authority Police Officer Christopher Amoroso, aged 29, exemplified extraordinary bravery amid the chaos of the World Trade Center attacks. A devoted husband and father to a young child, he repeatedly risked his life to save others. After safely

Beyond the details you provided about Belle the hippo and Yevdokia Dashina’s care during the 1943 Siege of Leningrad, additional information highlights the broader context of their story. The Leningrad Zoo, where Belle resided, was one of the oldest in Russia, and during the

Christa Pike, convicted at 18 for the 1995 murder of her Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer, became the youngest woman in the U.S. to receive the death penalty in the modern era. Driven by jealousy, Pike, with her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and friend Shadolla Peterson, lured

In May 2023, Casey Rivara, a 41-year-old father of two, was tragically killed by a teenage driver in Rocklin, California, shortly after he stopped his car to help a mother duck and her ducklings safely cross a busy intersection. His compassionate act, witnessed by his children

In a 2015 incident in Melbourne’s CBD, a garbage truck driver in his 40s struck and killed 24-year-old Josie Edden, who tripped and fell while crossing Collins Street against a flashing red pedestrian signal. Sergeant Mark Rose reported the driver was in “a great amount of shock”

In 2007, Thai police arrested Christopher Paul Neil, a Canadian teacher known as "Mr. Swirl Face," following a global Interpol manhunt. Neil had posted over 200 images online of himself committing s*xual offenses, with his face digitally swirled to conceal his identity. German