In 2004, city health officials revealed that a baby boy died after a circumcision carried out by a Rockland County rabbi who specializes in the centuries-old, ultra-Orthodox ritual known as metzizah b’ peh.

Under the practice, the rabbi or mohel removes blood from the wound with his mouth — a practice city health officials have criticized, saying it carried “inherent risks” for babies.

Jampa Yeshi, Tibetan Exile, Sets Self On Fire In Self-Immolation Anti-China Protest

NEW DELHI (AP) — A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a demonstration in the Indian capital Monday, just ahead of a visit by China's president and amid a series of self-immolations done inside Tibet to protest Beijing's rule.

Meth Lab Found In Walmart Restroom

Of all the things a Walmart janitor comes across, meth labs are probably low on the list.

Boaz Police say a maintenance worker cleaning the women’s restroom found pseudoephedrine pills and a plastic water battle with residue in the bottom.

Managers contacted police, who recovered what Chief Terry Davis called a one-pot shake and bake type lab.

“That kind of blew my mind when I read the report,” Davis said.

“We’ve found a lot of shake and bake meth labs in different places but never inside a business.”

Police said it takes about 15 to 30 minutes to cook low-quality methamphetamine using this method, and they do not know if the culprit completed making a final product.

Davis said officers are reviewing surveillance video to see if they can determine who took the items into the restroom.

Oddly enough, the pills did not come from the Walmart, but are sold at another pharmacy.

Investigators from the Marshall County Drug Enforcement Unit disposed of the meth-making materials.

As stories about a Chinese zoo keeper licking a monkey's butt in order to save its life go, this one from chinaSMACK is by far the most endearing.

After a young Francois' leaf monkey in his care consumed a peanut that had been tossed into its enclosure, Wuhan Zoo employee Zhang Bangsheng noticed that the animal had become dangerously constipated.

Being too big to pass through the monkey's system naturally, the peanut had to be extracted manually. Apparently, that meant licking it out.

Zhang told local reporters the three-month-old lutung was too small for laxatives, so he had no choice but to extract the wayward legume with his lingua. After washing the its bottom with warm water (because not doing so would be disgusting), Zhang spent an hour polishing the monkey's pooper before the peanut finally popped out.

What became of it is up to your filthy imagination, but chinaSMACK says the caretaker subsequently "laughed with satisfaction."

An Australian doctor has spoken out to condemn 'emo' haircuts with heavy fringes, saying that they could lead to lazy eye syndrome.

Speaking to The Mercury, Andrew Hogan, education director of the Optometrists Association of Tasmania, said:

If a young emo chap has a fringe covering one eye all the time, that eye won't see a lot of detail. And if it happens from a young age, that eye can become amblyotic.

Amblyotic is the medical term for lazy eye syndrome. It is thought that the most vulnerable age for the development of vision is from birth to seven years, but new research has suggested that vision can still be affected after this age.

Hogan's claims have been refuted by Stateside doctors, with Dr Leonard Press of New Jersey stating to MSNBC: "The story would only be true if you had somebody young enough, and if that person never looked out of that eye – if it was blocked 24/7. The reason it's false is that you don't have that constant deprivation."

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