A 78-year-old man from Fountain Valley, California reportedly stabbed and injured his 68-year-old wife with an ax after the couple had an argument a day before. Police have charged Abdel Herbawi with attempted murder after he allegedly attacked his wife with an ax as she prayed at their house on Monday.

If convicted, Herbawi, who is being held at Orange County Jail on $1 million bail, could face life in prison. The charges on him include torture, domestic battery and aggravated assault.

A 40-year-old man from Poland chopped off his own genitals with a knife after his wife left him. Tadeus Konopizc, who hails from Zakopane, cut off his penis and testicles with a 15cm kitchen knife in a fit of anger after drowning more than one bottle of Vodka.

According to reports, the man, who was in excruciating pain, still managed to call doctors to tell them about his idiotice deed and asked for help. The paramedics arrived on the scene and immediately asked for a helicopter to airlift the man to a special hospital, where they hoped to restore his penis back.

A cardboard cutout of President Bush with a knife through his head has prompted Secret Service agents to investigate an Alameda man.

Michael McDonald complains he was not only questioned by two agents about his personal history and his political views but was also asked to show his medical records.

Three men who were trying to break in a house, mistakenly or not, rang the doorbell, which alerted the home owner that eventually led to their arrest. According to authorities, Samuel Sanchez, 35, was asleep in his home Monday afternoon, when he heard his doorbell ring and he came out to find an alleged burglar still trying to open the front door with an 8-inch, black pocket knife.

When Sanchez confronted the men, they fled, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office told the St. Petersburg times.

In a scene that could be mistaken for a thriller movie, a 66-year-old Brazilian saved his grandson from the deadly trap of a 16-foot-long Anaconda by beating the snake with rocks and a knife for half an hour.

Joaquim Pereira told the Agencia Estado news service, "It was agonizing, I pulled it from one side, but it would come back on the other."