To Western eyes, Chinese medicine can feature plenty of strange cures. But even by those standards, this is insanely sick. Chinese man Wang Chaoxu, 29, is accused of murdering 11-year-old Li Xuetang. Allegedly Chaoxu killed the boy in order to eat his brains, with earthworms and ants, believing the mixture to be a cure for epilepsy. Forget the epilepsy, zombieism is your real problem

Staying with traumatic head wounds in China, teenager Xiao Wei became the owner of a seriously dramatic x-ray after being stabbed in the skull with a 10-inch knife. The victim of a vicious attack, Xiao stumbled into a local emergency room with the knife protruding from his head. But, miraculously, he’s expected to make a full recovery.

Do you live in South Korea? Are you thinking of taking your own life? Then maybe you’d like to consider experiencing the closest thing to death without actually going through the uncomfortable process of dying. Jung Loon, 39, has created the Coffin Academy, a seminar in which, for , participants are offered the opportunity to confront their mortality. This includes writing a tearful farewell letter to family and spending ten minutes in a shut coffin during a simulation of your own funeral. Potential lunatic Loon cites South Korea’s extremely high suicide rate for inspiring the project.

In India, plans are underway to weaponise the world’s most powerful chilli pepper. The Bhut Jolokia rates around 1,000,000 units on the Scoville heat scale – by comparison a jalapeno rates about 5,000 units – and Indian scientist now are looking at utilizing the eye-watering heat of the pepper for crowd control grenades. In order to gain appreciation of the throat searing power of the Bhut Jolokia, check out this video.

If you were ever to try an ultra-hot, possibly deadly pepper, you might need something refreshing with which to wash it down. Something like bacon beer perhaps? Here’s a how to guide to producing your own fried pork infused porter.

Finally here’s US Vice-President Joe Biden swearing on national TV. We believe he said something like ‘it’s a big funking deal,’ leading to speculation that Obama’s health reform bill also includes provisions of extra funk for the sickly. We hope Dr. Bootsy Collins is waiting to prescribe some bass-based medicine.