A human rights group is alleging the United States uses music by Eminem and Dr. Dre to torture detainees in a secret Afghanistan prison.

New York-based Human Rights Watch quotes an Ethiopian-born detainee as saying he was kept in a pitch-black prison and forced to listen to Eminem and Dr. Dre's rap music for 20 days before the music was replaced by "horrible ghost laughter and Halloween sounds."

Harry Potter books have become the most requested reading materials at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The detention center's 520 Al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects are taken by the series, according to a librarian at the facility.

The arrest of three teenagers was the result of what one animal rescue official claims to be "the worst animal torture," he's ever seen.

According to Iowa police, a video recording shows three teenagers laughing and taunting as they set opossums on fire.

Six half-naked animal rights demonstrators began a string of protests planned in the days before Pamplona's traditional "running of the bulls" begin next week.

The group reportedly interrupted Madrid's historic Puerta del Sol square overnight in a protest against bullfighting. Shoppers and tourists snapped photos as the five young women and one man carried "Stop the Bloody Bullfights" signs held by the protesters, wearing only white underpants and plastic bulls horns on their heads. The chanted, "Torture is not art or culture".