BUYING soap adorned with children’s favourite TV characters might encourage your kids into the bath, but they might also climb out with scratchy skin.

A man who believed he bore the “mark of the beast” used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called police, authorities in the US said.

Anna Nicole Smith’s 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a US-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said yesterday.