Recently, we heard about the smoke bomb being flung at a sideline official in a Tottenham v Aston Villa match.

Enraged spectators invaded a football field, stoned the referee to death and quartered his body after he fatally stabbed a player.

Doctors have removed 14 needles from the body of a two-year-old Brazilian boy whose stepfather inserted the needles in an attempt to spite his wife, medics said.

RABIES-CARRYING vampire bats fleeing deforestation of the Amazon region in Brazil have bitten more than 1,000 people, leaving 23 dead.