It certainly appears that the number of car and motorcycle crashes is increasing, not decreasing, throughout the world, or perhaps we are just catching more of them on video, as dashboard-mounted cameras ("dashcams") become more common.
With the outrageous baggage fees passengers have to cough up these days, you'd think the airlines could at least treat our precious cargo with some care. Not so fast.
In China an infant was discovered in a bathroom sewer pipe after firefighters were called to an apartment where residents were reporting hearing a baby's cries.
It seems almost impossible to believe, but the rivalry between two kindergarten schools in China led the principal of one school to kill a 5-year-old and a 6-year-old who attended the other school. With rat poison.