A new book written by author Hank Bordowitz reveals the lows singer Billy Joel sunk to over the years in a fight with depression and alcoholism. Joel reportedly drank furniture polish in a suicide attempt.

On Sunday, Cambodian officials say black magic may be to blame after a Cambodian couple bites off their daughter's thumb nails and suck her blood. The Associated Press

Black Magic is being blamed as the reason for two parents flipping out in the middle of the night and biting off the thumbnails and part of a nose to drink the blood of their daughter. Cheng Chorn, 46, and Srun Yoeung, 37, attacked their 12-year-old child before dawn on Thursday while she was still asleep.

Croatian soccer fans donate blood this week to get tickets for the national team's decisive World Cup qualifying game against Sweden, reports Reuters quoting Vecernji List daily. The game's organizers have reserved 300 tickets for the donors. But the number of volunteer blood donors in Zagreb is beyond their expectation. According to Reuters, students skip classes to queue in the hospital. Employees throng at the hospital during lunch breaks.

Pakistani health authorities are having a tough time employing female mortuary attendants after bereaved families have complained about male staff handling their dead female relatives. However, health authorities in Karachi say there is no straightforward solution, as women do not want to work in hospital morgues.