A confused teen opened a birthday present from his mom, only to find the Nintendo DS box stuffed with rocks and Chinese newspapers.

Tampa mom Jodi Wykle played a little birthday prank on her son, giving him the Guitar Hero game for Nintendo DS, even though he didn't have a DS yet. Next, she gave him another box, this one with a Nintendo DS in it-or so she thought.

Four Boston Police officers on Saturday forced themselves into an apartment and killed a 23-year-old man, who had just stabbed to death two of his sisters, before he could turn the kitchen knife on his other 9-year-old sister.

The officers broke down the door of the apartment on Belvoir Road to find Kerby Revelus going after his sister Sarafina after he had just decapitated his 5-year-old sister and stabbed to death his 17-year-old sister, the Boston Globe reported. The officers immediately shot and killed Revelus before he could do any more harm to Sarafina.

Residents of a quiet Quebec town woke up Sunday to the grim news of a family suicide attempt, which claimed the lives of the 46-year old husband and his three children. The 36-year old wife survived the attempt and is confined at the Chicoutimi hospital under policy custody.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police identified the couple as Marc Laliberte and Cathy Gauthier-Lachance. Their children, who died by poisoning or suffocation, were identified as 12-year old Joelle, 7-year old Marc-Ange and 4-year old Louis-Philippe. The couple had knife wounds.

Actor Daniel Hoevels accidentally slit his neck onstage after he mistook a real knife for a prop at the Burgtheater in Austria.

Hoevels, 30, unwittingly grabbed a real blade instead of a harmless prop during his performance as a character who commits suicide. The audience was unaware that the blood spurting from his neck was real and that the actor wasn't acting anymore.

A Sacramento man bravely fended off and beat down a knife-wielding attacker using a plastic candy cane lawn ornament.

The drunken attacker was identified as Donald Kercell, 49.