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Unhappy Meal: 'Food Activists' Behead Ronald McDonald

Ronald McDonald is the victim of a crime -- and this time the Hamburglar isn't to blame. A group of artists and activists in Finland kidnapped a Ronald McDonald sculpture from a McDonald's restaurant and, despite the efforts of police, managed to behead a version of the fast-food icon in a grisly recording shot in the...

Report Bolsters 9/11 Mastermind's Confession to Daniel Pearl Murder

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, according to a yearslong investigation into his murder. U.S. investigators used vein analysis to confirm that the hand seen on the video of the 2002 execution belongs to Mohammed, a...

Wife Gives 2nd Statement on Border Lake Shooting

MEXICO CITY (Oct. 16) -- The wife of an American tourist reported shot to death by pirates on a border lake has given helpful new details about the incident to Mexican authorities, Mexico's government said Saturday. The Attorney General's Office said Tiffany Hartley gave a second statement Friday at the Mexican consul in...

Tiffany Hartley: 'My Heart Broke' for Beheaded Cop

(Oct. 13) -- Tiffany Hartley today sent her condolences to the family of the Mexican police commander decapitated while probing the reported shooting death of her husband, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry called for more officers to be put on the case. The severed head of Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, commander of state...

Sarkozy Vows Revenge After al-Qaida Beheads Man

NICE, France (July 26) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed today to seek revenge on the North African wing of al-Qaida for beheading an elderly French aid worker after a joint Franco-Mauritanian raid to rescue him last week failed. Michel Germaneau, 78, a retired engineer who had been helping build a school for...

Background on beheading

Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head) is the separation of the head from the body. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine.

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