A four month old puppy needs surgery after being brutally beaten by his owner. Police arrested Chad Benjamin, 31 of Taunton, Massachusetts, Monday for severely abusing his pit bull pup. An eyewitness, as well as the responding officer, observed the probable abuse. Benjamin was seen striking the puppy and dragging and lifting it by its leash as he walked the animal along a city street. The pit bull... 

Just a taste of what it will be like for 350,000 foreign football fans at the FIFA WC2010 in South Africa? Pretoria-born businessman Christo Viljoen, 57, who had fled from the city’s crime to Ballito at the KwaZulu-Natal coast two years ago, travelled back to his beloved home town to cheer on the Blue Bulls in the Super14 semifinal rugby tournament at the Loftus Versfeld stadium. The Afrikaner had... 

Michael Jones is wanted on charges of attempted murder, attempted aggravated assault and violating an order of protection. Police said Jones broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home in Columbia, assaulted her, stabbed her and tried to rape her. The two had stopped seeing each other several months ago. “He started stabbing me once here, once here and four times on my legs,” said Kelly English,... 

Russian nationalists threatened on Tuesday “to cure” any homosexuals who join a Gay Pride parade in Moscow this Saturday, setting the scene for a possible confrontation on the day of the Eurovision Song Contest final. The Moscow authorities say they cannot allow the parade to take place as it will “destroy morals” in the capital. But gay activists said they have so far received... 

Graphic footage of a youth’s brutal bashing at a train station shows three attackers taking turns to kick him in the head. Detectives investigating the vicious assault say they are appalled by the level of violence, which left the 23-year-old man from Sunshine in Melbourne’s west with serious head injuries. The man was beaten even after he handed over the backpack that appeared to be... 

Whatever controversy clouded his last outing, 29-year old Romanian IBF Super Middleweight titlist Lucian Bute (24-0, 19 KO) showed no hangover on Friday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In front of the city he’s made home, Bute made his third successful defense of the crown since October 2007, dominating 31-year old Colombian Fulgencio Zuniga (22-4-1, 19 KO) from bell to bell...