World of Hurt

Hundreds of mothers in Mexico search in agony through rows of bodies dug up from mass graves found in the town of San Fernando, looking for their sons.

Artist Abdessemed has created a monument to defeat. The piece, a recreation of the well-known 2006 World Cup head butt, shows a colossal Zidane, his gaze downcast and stern, driving an anguished Materazzi off his feet.

Corrections inmate, D.J. Goodson, is suing the infamous sisters, claiming he experienced "extreme emotional distress" after being obliged to watch their shows.

"People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony."

In football, players put their pain threshold up against their opponent’s. In an interview with the Miami Herald, Dolphins great Jason Taylor admitted to lying to doctors and enduring excruciating pain so he could play.

The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of grievous dust storms caused by severe drought and wind erosion in the American prairie lands. "Black blizzards" often reduced visibility to a few feet (a meter) or less.

After being rescued from a two-month ordeal in a Chilean mine, Edison Pena is planning to run the New York Marathon. He was able to stay in shape by running up to 7 miles a day in the mine's closed-off tunnels.

Johnny Depp turns the one-dimensional Mad Hatter caricature into a nuanced, if orange-coiffed, paragon tormented by the effects of mercury poisoning.

The Bullet Ant’s sting causes waves of throbbing, mind-blowing trauma that doesn’t stop for 24 hours.

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."