A German court prohibits the screening of a film based on the case of self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes. The court rules Meiwes' rights as an individual outweighed artistic freedom and he should not become the object of a horror film.

After posting an advertisement on the internet asking for a willing victim in 2001, Meiwes, a computer technician, killed and ate Bernd Juergen Brandes.

According to a recent poll, most Americans know more about Homer and the Simpson clan than they do about the US Constitution's First Amendment.

In a survey, only one in four people could name one of the five amendments, whereas more than half could name at least two family members of the Simpsons.

California police officer is arrested on suspicion of soliciting sexual favors from women in exchange for their freedom.

Officer William Robert Taylor, a three-year officer of the El Cajon Police Department, was arrested Friday, and now faces eight felony counts including bribery, sexual battery and victim intimidation.

Police say a mother in western Arkansas may have used ant poison to kill her three young children.

They found four cups near the poison and a letter in Spanish saying the mother could not live without their father.

A prisoner in Australia didn't dig, or bust his way out of prison. He made his escape by losing so much weight, he was able to squeeze though a hole he made in a brick wall.

Reuters reports Robert Cole was in the Sydney jail for stealing and assault. He lost around 30-pounds so he could slip through the hole next to a window in the hospital of the maximum security prison.