Sacha Baron Cohen suffered serious burns after trying to bleach his body hair. The comic star - who plays a gay Austrian fashion reporter in his new film "Bruno" - used strong chemicals to make him look "all-over hairless."

But the 37-year-old star suffered an allergic reaction to the bleach and broke out in a painful rash. He was taken to hospital for treatment and couldn't sit down for days.

An Augusta, Ga. man became the first recipient of a double hand transplant this week.

A team of 10 surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center performed the nine-hour operation Monday morning.

The first American face transplant recipient revealed herself to the public Tuesday in a press conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

Connie Culp, 47, showed her new and complete face before reporters and cameramen at the InterContinental Hotel inside the Cleveland Clinic campus. Before the nearly 24-hour operation in December 9, Culp's disfigured face had no nose, one eye, upper jaw and upper lip, palate and lower eyelid. She was also unable to eat solid food, drink from a cup, smell or taste.

An Orlando, Fla. radio personality shot his wife and dog, he said, accidentally.

Shannon Burke, 43, was arrested and had bail set at $10,000. He was ordered not to have contact with his wife and not to go within 1,500 feet from his home in the Hilltop Place neighborhood.

A legally blind hiker who was lost on the Appalachian Trail for six days was found alive and healthy Saturday afternoon.

He was found after he lit a signal fire, his colleague at Backpacking Light and a member of the search party, Ryan Jordan, told the Ann Arbor News. The fire, which burned out of control and turned into a two-acre brush fire, prompted firefighters and other rescuers to go to his location near Snowden, Virginia.