Getty ImagesIvan Milat was convicted of murdering seven backpackersIvan Milat, a notorious Australian serial killer who kidnapped and murdered hitchhikers, has died aged 74.
Milat had been serving a life sentence for killing seven backpackers between 1989 and 1992 and dumping their bodies in a New South Wales forest.
He died of cancer in a Sydney hospital early on Sunday local time.
Police said Milat's lifelong refusal to admit his crimes had hampered further investigations into the killings and other unsolved cases. Read More...
For a 2½-day stretch, during the summer of 1984, I wanted to be White. I was watching the Olympics, and in the events I’d seen — swimming and gymnastics, specifically — most of the athletes were White, so 5-year-old me thought you had to be that to compete.
That feeling faded as quickly as it came, but it was replaced in 1987, when I wanted shoulders and a neck like LL Cool J had in the “I’m Bad” video. Read More...
Shock value is hard to produce in the Internet age, but some attendees of the International Tattoo Festival in Caracas, Venezuela, gave it their best shot last week.
The four-day festival, organized to spread awareness of extreme body art, featured ghoulish face tattoos, extreme piercings, bifurcated tongues and Kala Kaiwi, the Hawaiian man who owns the world record for earlobe stretching.
But the festival’s most eye-popping body modification was almost certainly eyeball tattoos. Read More...