POLICE have released shocking X-ray images of a 16-year-old with a knife lodged in his head after a stabbing in London to serve as a warning about the dangers of knife crime.

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For about 50 euros, you can stay in a former prison that has been converted into a hotel in the town of Kaiserslautern in southwestern Germany.

A wind turbine was taken over at the weekend for the British Open Base Jumping Championship.

Thirty of the world's best base jumpers competed in the final leg of the competition from the Ecotech Wind Turbine, at Swaffham in Norfolk.

Not content with using a self-heating bra to save the planet, those utter mentalists at Triumph have devised another 'sexy' solution to climate change: a solar powered 'eco bra' that stores up energy during the day.

Sam Roddick, founder of sex emporium Coco de Mer, talks about the ethos behind her business philosophy.

Located in London's Covent Garden, Coco de Mer brings an environmentally friendly ethos to the sex industry. The sensually designed emporium sources from local artists, fair trade projects and cottage industries.

A German zookeeper who lovingly raised celebrity polar cub Knut at Berlin zoo has died of a heart attack aged 44.

Berlin police said Thomas Doerflein was found dead in his apartment in a western district of Berlin near the zoo. Doerflein shot to fame and gained scores of female fans when he hand-reared Knut after he was rejected by his mother.

China has successfully completed its first spacewalk in an exercise that is seen as key to China's goal to build an orbiting space station.

Astronaut Zhai Zhigang completed the 15 minute spacewalk after clambering out of China's Shenzhou VII space craft.

Half-motorbike, half-bicycle - an Austrian inventor says his creation, the "ErockIT", is a cool electric vehicle.

"ErockIT" riders have to pedal to get the bike going, and the faster they pedal, the faster the motor goes.

The bike can reach speeds of up to 80 kilometres, or almost 50 miles, per hour and its inventor says it could revolutionise transport.

Yves Rossy makes first solo flight across the English Channel using a single, jet-propelled wing.

The daredevil pilot had been forced to abandon his attempt on Wednesday and Thursday due to poor weather.

Bailing out Wall St. is going to cost around 1 trillion dollars...if you can comprehend that.

Mark Workentine, the pilot in a speed boat that disintegrated at 180 miles per hour during a test run, escaped unharmed as seen in this incredible video.

2 videos, the crash and then the interview.

When this guy started this project there was no way for him to distribute it. He started before viral video. Before Internet video. Before digital cameras were widely available. Thankfully, modern technology has caught up allowing 17 years worth of pictures to become more than a really awesome flip book.

Miners in Lesotho, southern Africa have found one of the world's largest diamonds, a near-flawless white gem weighing nearly 500 carats.

The company who own the diamond said it has the potential to yield one of the largest flawless D colour round polished diamonds in history.

Dressed in a special birthday kimono and receiving a present of a giant tea cup engraved with his name and date of birth, the world’s oldest man turned 113 on Thursday and declared that he wanted to live for at least another five years.

Stinky CSI patrol, street luge, crying over cannoli, the whale whisperer, and an 80-year-old body builder.

A traditional Beijing rickshaw is given a makeover with the addition of the rear body of a Mini Cooper.

Named "the other rickshaw", the vehicle features four gold-plated dragons and other Chinese decorations.

Sex - Drugs - Then Muder, In Depth report on a plastic surgeon's risky affair with a patient turns deadly. Troy Roberts reports.

This is just too strange.

But this guy has a cat that likes to swim, and loves to scuba dive.

This is for real

Only in Germany (cause it doesn't happen in my nieghborhood).

Seems a young couple may have had too many drinks, when they passed out on their front lawn.

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John McCain was interrupted by a group of anti-war protestors during his highly anticipated acceptance speech during the final night of the Republican National Convention.

Officials in Galveston made a daring rescue by helicopter after a man in a pick-up truck was stranded in Ike's high tides on the Texas coastline.

Idaho State Police pursued a thief on a high-speed car chase that ended with both vehicles run off the road and a shootout caught on the dashboard camera.

Amazing Video as the hail of shots can be seen as the car windows get blown out.

Weatherman Dave Price gets soaked by the rising tide as Hurricane Ike approaches Galveston. As if once wasn't enough, the sea took his shoes out from under him.

Politics is funny when idiots are involved.

Senator and Rap Artist M.C. CAIN throws down with DJ G.W. Bush in an Epic Rap Performance

The secret tape Sarah Palin sent to John McCain to convince him to pick her as his running mate. A Channel 9 News Exclusive.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is used to dealing with calls about moose and deer, but inside the public safety building in St. Albans, a first: a gorilla.

"In Full:" The cold truth in Alaska - a crime of money, power, greed and sex. Susan Spencer reports.

This year's presidential campaign is becoming less about economic policy and more about culture and values. Untruths are damaging both candidates while facts are ignored.

Hackers broke into a computer system at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, targeting a system that was "one step away" from a control computer, but otherwise appear to have done no major damage, according to a report on Friday in the British newspaper The Telegraph.

The system that was breached monitors the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment, which will be analyzing data during subatomic particle collisions in the particle accelerator located along the French-Swiss border. Experiments, which began on Wednesday, are designed to help scientists explore particle physics theories.

 A 22-year-old college grad looking to pay off her student loans will auction off her virginity at Nevada's infamous Moonlight Bunny Ranch, Us magazine reported.

The Sacramento State grad, who uses the pseudonym "Natalie Dylan," told "The Insider" she is "ready for the controversy."

A computer game that encourages its users to slaughter Muslims has been condemned as offensive and tasteless by a British Muslim group.

The game, Muslim Massacre, incites users to download the game by falsely claiming the United States is at war with Islam.

Hollywood leftie Matt Damon has no Good Will for the Hunting VP-wannabe Sarah Palin and thinks this country is in for “disaster” if the 44-year-old Alaska hockey mom becomes president. “The Bourne Ultimatum” star, who had to theoretically kill off Sarah Barracuda’s boss, John McCain, 72, to make his argument, said in an interview with The Associated Press that “there’s a really good chance” that Palin could become president.” “And I think that’s a really scary thing

It's not a doll, it's an action figure! And it's not just an action figure, it's a superhero. US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin might be America's new wonder woman.

Atleast that's the idea behind the new 12-inch tall action figures made to look like Palin. There are three versions of the action figures, an executive, a school girl and a .45 caliber gun-toting superhero.

The action figures went on sale for the first time on June 8 and so far the response has been good.

Everything you need to know about why John McCain choose Sarah Palin for his running mate.

Leigh Koechner plays Sarah Palin in a series of videos that helps you "the cattle" get to know her. James Grace plays a "Strudy" Todd Palin. You may remember him from several projects, including SUPERTROOPERS, Reno 911 & Curb Your Enthusiasm.

A base jumper in Norway, well, took a wrong turn.

Wild Video as his parachute won't open.

A Jehovah's Witness who for decades refused all surgery on his horrific facial disfigurement has been given hope by a British doctor and new medical technology.

Unwilling to accept a blood transfusion, Jose Mestre has allowed the bloody tumour that first appeared on his lip in adolescence to obliterate almost all of his face.

Visitors have been flocking to a zoo in Japan to catch a glimpse of green polar bears.

The bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan.

Sarah Palin proves she has Wikipedia, and denigrates community service.

The president of Afghanistan demands that the U.S. military curtail its use of air strikes against insurgents in his country because they are killing too many civilians

O.J. Simpson is back in court on charges of robbery and kidnapping. If convicted, Simpson could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

A strange case of indecent exposure at a drive-thru espresso stand left two bikini-clad baristas terrified. One poured boiling hot water on the flasher so he would leave.

Two Serbian cooks have created one whopping hamburger. The giant meat patty weighed in at 94.2 pounds, and might snag a Guinness World Record.

MMMM - Rat.

Yes folks seems the down turn in the economy hasn't stopped other countries from digging into the finner things in the cupboard, like rat.

Pictures and video you won't believe.

Woman clains devine intervention.

Finds image of the Virgin Mary in the skin of a grape.

Where? well duh - Texas of course

Is global warming thinning the ice on the North Pole?

A first hand look?

Only the bear facts here.

But seems cops were beaten to the scene. They closed in to shut down a pot growing opertation in Utah. But evidence shows a bear beat them to it.

A suspect in a dark Nissan Altima led police on a high-speed chase through Houston, Texas, that ended in a violent rollover crash. No one was hurt.

Tropical Storm Hannah is expected to dump between 5 to 10 inches of rain along portions of the East Coast. As Michelle Miller reports, a flash flood warning has now been issued.