• Man holds knife to wife's throat in horrific 6-hour standoff

    A tense standoff in which a Thai man held his wife hostage with a knife to her throat ended after six hours when police used a Taser gun to disable him.

    A crowd gathered to watch as 30-year-old Sakdawut Hamsiri threatened his wife, Thawee Naiyanit, on a street in Bangkok.

    Police are pressing charges against Hamsiri in connection with physical restraint and narcotics usage, The Associated Press told msnbc.com.

    His wife was sent to hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

    Sakchai Lalit / AP

    Sakdawut Hamsiri holds a knife to his wife Thawee Naiyanit's throat on a street in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 5, 2012.

    Sakchai Lalit / AP

    A policeman talks to Hamsiri during the standoff.

    Sakchai Lalit / AP

    Police said Hamsiri was under the influence of drugs.

    Sakchai Lalit / AP

    Police electroshock Hamsiri with a Taser to bring the incident to an end.

  • AP

    This photo taken on Feb. 13, 2011 shows the x-ray scan of Li Fuyan at the People's Hospital in Yuxi in southwest China's Yunnan province. Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch (10-centimeter) knife from the skull of the man who said it had been stuck in there for four years, the hospital said Friday, Feb. 18, 2011.

    Doctors remove knife blade from man's skull who didn't know the source of his pain.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    Apparently, the man had been suffering from severe headaches but didn't know the cause of his pain. How could you not know there was a four-inch knife blade in your skull? Full story.

  • Rebecca Blackwell / AP

    A rebel soldier gestures to show that his only weapon is a knife, as he describes how heavily-armed security forces descended on the neighborhood and killed at least two people, in the Abobo neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. U.N. peacekeepers retreated from a neighborhood where security forces loyal to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo had opened fire Tuesday, turning around at least nine U.N. vehicles after dozens of angry young men built a blockade.

    Rebel soldier in Ivory Coast wearing the opposite of camouflage clothing

    By John Brecher

    Here's a picture that might differ from your expectation of what a rebel soldier looks like. It's intriguing that someone would dress distinctively in the context of a violent conflict - I'd guess that anonymity is safer. Are you familiar with this kind of hat?

  • (Helia Scheppa, JC Imagem / AP)

    Edeilson Manoel do Nascimento holds an X-ray showing a knife that was inside his head at the Hospital das Clinicas in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Nascimento is recovering nicely after a team of surgeons removed the 4-inch knife that had remained stuck in his head for three years after a bar fight.

    Knife in the head

    It’s hard to believe that Nascimento lived with a knife stuck inside his head for three years.

    Photographer, Helia Scheppa did a great job with lighting this unique portrait. By placing a small portable flash behind the subject it was able to cast enough light to show the x-ray film, simple yet effective.