Fudai Junior High School students clean their tennis court after the tsunami- but compared to other towns, they escaped relatively unscathed thanks to the sea wall pictured in the background. Click on the image to enlarge it. The Japanese mayor who was laughed at for building a huge sea wall – until his village was left almost untouched by tsunami. The huge sea wall and floodgates took 12 years... 

Kushchevskaya Unidentified attackers armed with knives killed 12 people, including three children and a newborn, who had gathered Friday for a celebration at a home in a Russian village, authorities said. The attackers then tried to burn the bodies. The motive for the brazen killings in Kushchevskaya, a farming village of about 100 homes in the southern Krasnodar region, was unclear. Prosecutors from... 

A Philippine village watchman mistook an actor for a real masked gunman, jumped onto his moving motorcycle and fatally shot him in what witnesses thought was part of the filming, police and another actor said Monday. As the director shouted ‘Action!’, actor Kirk Abella began to speed away on a motorcycle with a masked driver and the watchman feared he was going to escape, said community... 

It was on a terrace between two paddy fields like this that Balinese teenager Ngurah Alit was caught having intercourse with a cow, who he claimed had flirted with him. It was reported that a Balinese teenager, Ngurah Alit, 18, was caught having intercourse with a cow. Because of the act of bestiality, Alit was forced to marry the cow. Alit ended up passing out on Friday during the ceremony which was... 

Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers. Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as “dragon bones” at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Dong,...