A controversial new "thrill ride," has been added to New York's Coney Island, only it's not actually a ride, and most would agree, there is no "thrill" in waterboarding. The store front attraction uses robots that look human to depict the act of waterboarding, a method of torture that gives the victim a feeling of drowning. A life size figure in a dark sweat suit and holding a bucket of water stands over a figure in an orange jump suit who is tied to a tilted board. Putting a dollar into a machine causes the robotic man in the sweat suit to dump water onto the face of the bound figure, whose face is covered by a towel. For 15 seconds, voyeurs watch the robot in the orange jumpsuit convulse.

A training manual issued by Canada's Foreign Affairs Department lists Guantanamo Bay, the U. S. detention camp in Cuba, as a suspected torture and abuse site - alongside Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Syria. A Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, awaits trial in Guantanamo for allegedly killing an American medic in Afghanistan in 2002 and has been in detention for five years since he was 15 years old, CBC News reported.

Halifax police have charged at least one person after a kitten was beaten to death with a golf club on Sunday. Several people, including the cat's 11-year-old owner witnessed the attack. Few details have been released but investigators say the charge is not directly related to the death of the cat. Three other suspects are still being questioned in the case and could be charged with injuring or endangering animals, or causing unnecessary suffering.

A 52-year-old housewife from Brazil first stabbed her husband, then chopped off his dead body into small pieces to boil and fry it before hiding it into plastic bags in her house. A 15-member jury found Rosanita Nery dos Santos guilty of killing retired police officer Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos. The accident took place on June 23, 2005 in Vila Sao Cosme, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the Bahia state capital of Salvador, 930 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. The matter came into picture when police received an anonymous phone call saying that the woman has hid body parts in her house.

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.