Mallory Owens, pictured left, was attending a Thanksgiving dinner in Mobile, Alabama, with girlfriend Ally Hawkins, center, when the family affair turned violent. The 23-year-old suffered numerous facial lacerations and a broken nose in the attack, allegedly at the hands of Travis Hawkins Jr, who was charged with second-degree assault.

Former Playmate model Erica Smitheman, 33, took over Bolaris' Twitter to post messages about their sex life. Bolaris' trip to Miami in 2010 was dubbed the 'real-life Hangover' after he was swindled out of $40,000 by bar girls and woke up remembering nothing. In what appeared to be late night, drunken antics, Smitheman even offered to tweet nude pictures of herself, but never made good on that promise.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Nurbanu (inset and main picture, with her daughter) divorced her violent and unfaithful husband after catching him with another woman. Just eight days later she was cooking at her home in Bangladesh when her former spouse roared up on a motorbike and doused her with acid, leaving her blind and disfigured. Acid violence - typically directed at women and often the result of marital rows or bitterness over spurned advances - still occur relatively frequently in Bangladesh despite the efforts of the government and charities to address the issue.

Bondi was among several popular beaches around Sydney, Australia, which had to be closed after an algae bloom transformed the sea into something resembling a scene from a Jaws movie. Despite the warnings a number of intrepid beachgoers were seen venturing into the water and swimming through the red surface.

Jose Barrientos, 26, faked a Mexican accent in his public speaking class a the Los Angeles City College and has finally revealed his true identity to a room full of shocked students. In late August, Barrientos, an Iraq War veteran turned stand-up comedian, sat quietly on the first day of Speech 101 and decided to reinvent himself as a newly arrived Mexican immigrant.

WARNING: Graphic content. The gruesome footage has become a surprise online hit with almost 66,000 people already watching it. The hapless creature is expelled by the anaconda as it writhes in the Brazilian water. It is not known why the giant snake decided to give up its meal.

The official announcement came after an old ruined mill rumoured to have once been the home of Serbia's most famous vampire collapsed. Sava Savanovic (right) was believed to have lived in the mill (left) on the Rogacica river in the municipality of Bajina Basta. It is said he drank the blood of anybody that came to mill their grain. Mayor Miodrag Vujetic admitted: 'People are worried. Everybody knows the legend of this vampire and the thought that he is now homeless and looking for somewhere else and possibly other victims is terrifying people.'

These images show the just-released Cocoon Tree hovering between trees thanks to a system of suspension wires. A large mattress and a custom made duvet can be placed inside it, accommodating two people, or even a couple with two small children.

The city of Chicago says a single, unemployed Chicago mother owes them $105,000 in parking fines after her ex-boyfriend registered an old Chevy Monte Carlo in her name and parked it at O'Hare Airport for three years. The cruel prank was allegedly carried out by Brandon Preveau, right, and directed at his ex Jennifer Fitzgerald, right.

After 100 years of climate change, only 25 out of the 150 glaciers recorded at the Glacier National Park in Montana still exist. As these pictures show, places where the ice was once many metres thick have been replaced with sediment, pastures and lakes. Dr Dan Fagre, who leads the U.S. Geological Survey Team responsible for researching glaciers in the park, predicts that its glaciers will completely disappear in the coming decades.

Lu Zhenghai is so afraid of rumours that the Mayans predicted a global disaster on December 21 he has spent $150,000 designing his own apocalypse-proof vessel. Lu, from Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, admits it's not much to look at, but is confident it will serve its purpose.

Brenda Gammon, 53, (center) bagged a six-point buck near her home in Peru, Maine, on Friday. Within an hour, her daughter Julie Carlow, 33, (right) and her granddaughter Katelyn, 13, (left) each shot deer of their own. The three women proudly posed for a photo with their trophies, each woman hoisting her rifle and clad in a blaze orange vest and hat.

Breivik, wearing a security guard's uniform, left, is seen parking his white van at the entrance of a building in Oslo that housed the Prime Minister's offices. The CCTV footage then captures Breivik quickly walking away from the van before the bomb explodes, centre. After the explosion, Breivik, right, got into a second van which he used to drive to the nearby island of Utoya where he gunned down 69 people - mostly teenagers.

Filmed dancing for nearly a full minute on his two tiny legs, the long-haired Chihuahua named Sloopy waves his tail and twists his hips eagerly stepping back and forth before the kitchen counter. 'He kept dancing so I put on some Miami Sound Machine and let him get busy!' Sloopy's owner Devin Contreras wrote with the hilarious video posted last Thursday.

Robin Lovelock, 65, hopes to become the first person to sail an unmanned craft (pictured) - named Snoopy Sloop - 6,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Barton-On-Sea, Hampshire. The 30lb home made boat, constructed for less than £450 and put together in Robin's games room at his Sunninghill, Berkshire, home, will attempt to sail the seas powered by wind and a solar-powered GPS and steering system.

Victoria's Secret may be known for its angels, but on Black Friday, it's where angels fear to tread. An all-out melee erupted at the lingerie giant inside a California shopping mall as customers were let in to commence Black Friday shopping.

Labelling his project Urban Air, for exactly what he hopes it brings, the artist expects his 'garden in the sky' will give drivers a sense of calm, advocate green space, and inspire similar designs across the country. 'There is an advertising infrastructure that goes through this city that is strong and robust and at this moment only dedicated toward selling you things, and it could be much more,' said artist Stephen Glassman.

CONTAINS NUDITY: The series - shot by photographer John Crawford between 1984 and 1987 in New Zealand - shows his then wife Carina naked pictured from a bird's-eye perspective. After locking the 35mm colour negatives and prints away in a box, they have finally seen the light of day, a quarter of a century after the projects completion. And now the photo project showing has gone viral on the internet.

At its peak, Villacanas was a bustling town manufacturing millions of wooden doors to cater for the housing boom in Spain. But all that’s left now is a ghost town with an abandoned factory (pictured) that used to employ 5,700 people. It is a stark reminder of more prosperous times when the town's population was part of Spain's middle class with high wages and permanent jobs. Since the housing bubble burst, Villacanas is one of the many former buoyant industrial Spanish towns that is now struggling with huge unemployment problems.

A weapon, disguised as a Parker pen and demonstrated to CNN reporters by South Korea's answer to Q, was one of three found on a would-be assassin in Seoul who was targeting Park Sang-hak, an anti North Korea activist. Like something straight out of a James Bond film, the pen actually contains a deadly poison which, if injected, leads to almost instant muscle paralysis which in turn leads to suffocation and death.