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Evandro Inetti/ZUMAPRESS.com A 51-year-old man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday. VATICAN CITY — A man has doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. The Vatican said Thursday the 51-year-old man was treated at a nearby hospital and transferred to a larger ...

John Moore/Getty Images Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) will be tapped as an ambassador to China, sources say. Democratic officials say President Barack Obama intends to nominate Montana Sen. Max Baucus as ambassador to China. The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation. The Democrat had announced earlier this year that he would not seek re-election. RELATED: SENATE PASSES BIPARTISAN BUDGET BILL ...

AFP/AFP/Getty Images Thousands of Turkish people gather in front of the offices of Armenian newspaper “Agos” during a commemoration ceremony for slain journalist Hrant Dink ,who was killed by a gunman on January 19, 2007. NEW YORK — For the second consecutive year, Turkey jailed more journalists than any other country, with Iran and China close behind in an annual ...

Studio-Annika/Getty Images/iStockphoto Anju Kushwaha, 28, from the Satna district of central Madhya Pradesh province in India miscarried 10 babies in one night in what has been called a medical record, according to reports. She’d have to be an Indian Goddess to handle so many children. An Indian woman reportedly miscarried 10 babies in one night setting a new medical record ...

The not-so-lyrical lyrics are a paean to Manuel Torres Felix, alias “The Crazy One,” a kingpin in the Sinaloa Cartel known for losing his mind and going on killing sprees: “With an AK-47 and a bazooka behind my head, cross my path and I’ll chop your head off. I’m crazy and I like to kill my enemies,” goes the verse ...

Susan Walsh/AP Actor Sean Penn testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington May 20 before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing as he advocates for  American Jacob Ostreicher’s Freedom after two years in Bolivian detention. After spending more than two years in prison, a man from Brooklyn who was never charged with any ...

HAP/Quirky China News/Re/REX USA/HAP/Quirky China News/Re/REX USA Xiao Wei of Changde, China, had his severed hand attached to his ankle in order to keep it alive. Wei’s right hand was severed in a workplace accident, and his arm was crushed. This should come in handy for later. Doctors were able to save a factory worker’s hand after it was severed ...

Nigel Parry/AP Accomplished actor Peter O’Toole in 2006. He died at the age of 81.  Peter O’Toole, the legendary actor who starred in the classic film “Lawrence of Arabia,” has died at age 81. The charismatic, Irish-born star of the stage and silver screen got his big break when he won the role of British adventurer T.E. Lawrence in the ...

Titica da Pesada via YouTube Workers trying to resurface a sidewalk in Brazil cemented a vehicle into it after the seller refused to move the vehicle. A dispute between road workers in Brazil and a car salesman resulted in a vehicle being cemented to the sidewalk. The dispute happened in the city of Belo Horizonte, reported Metro. RELATED: ‘ROBIN HOOD ...

BBC Carol King-Eckersley talks about her long lost son, Kenneth Bissett, who was killed in the Lockerbie bombing in 1988. She learned that he was one of those who perished twenty-five years later. An Oregon woman’s search for the son she gave up for adoption ended in heartbreak when she learned he was killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Carol ...