The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that intercourse with a dead person is a crime because there is no consent from the victim. The decision reached by the justices via a vote of 5-2 reverses the ruling of appellate and lower courts dismissing the sexual assault charges on three men who tried but failed to commit necrophilia in 2006.

A Pakistani man from Jonesboro, Georgia has been charged with murder for strangling his daughter to death to protect his family's honor. Chaudhry Rashid, 56, is suspected of killing Sandeela Kanwal, 25, on Sunday because the daughter wanted to end her marriage to a Pakistani in Chicago, the suspect's African-American wife, Gina, told police.

One person died and dozens of spectators were injured during Sunday's opening ceremony and Monday's running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Although six bulls were turned loose to rampage down Pamplona's narrow streets, most spectators were injured due to falls. The death of an Irish spectator was attributed to falling from where he was sitting on a wall.

Villagers at a southern Philippine town on Thursday reported seeing two mysterious flying creatures roaming their community, barely days after the dismembered remains of three goats were discovered there. Residents in Barangay (village) Manongol in Kidapawan City have been agitated since Sunday with the discovery of three dead goats with their hearts, lungs and other internal organs eaten.

A man died here Tuesday evening after drinking 23 shots of vodka in 30 minutes, Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies said. Eric Morris, 26, was with a friend at the Angels Show Bar, a topless bar on U. S. Hwy. 92. He and his friend ordered shots of Burnett's Cherry Vodka and started playing a drinking game, according to sheriff's spokesman J. D. Callaway.