Mother kills twin so other may live.

The traditional throwing of a bride's bouquet for luck ended in disaster. The bride and groom had hired a small plane to fly past and throw the bouquet to a line of women guests. However, the flowers were sucked into the plane's engine causing it to catch fire and explode.

Fighting with his wife, drunk, Paul Verlaine once threw their three-month-old son against a wall.

A mother murders her one-month-old daughter by burning her to death in a microwave oven. She confessed to putting her daughter in the microwave and switching it on, because she was afraid that her boyfriend would leave her if he discovered that he was not the baby's father.

A pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies got married without knowing they were brother and sister.

A 13-year-old boy is making himself into a great speller by way of unhappiness and the immense pressure he feels to reunite his family, which was blown across two continents when his parents were sent back to India last year after being denied political asylum.

Child support authorities are hoping to track down stay-away fathers who refuse to pay child maintenance by posting their details on pizza boxes. Pizza restaurants have begun plastering their delivery boxes with posters shaming the 10 "most wanted" absentee fathers.

An Indian man has been living in a tree for the past 15 years despite passionate appeals by his mother to return home.

A famous acting duo become the parents of twins, born to a surrogate mother.

He did not want people to pity him. Pity -in fact, any public display of emotion- was perceived by him as weakness. It conflicted with the upbringing he received from his mother and contradicted the norms accepted by his generation.

A mother and a father realize how monotonous and isolated their life is when their daughter, in a desperate attempt to get attention, suddenly pretends to be blind. The family decides to break with their trot and plan to emigrate to Australia.

A man imprisons his own family in a barn to save them from the evils of the world.

A tormented old man on the verge of death is haunted by the ghost of the petulant, unbearably treacherous brother he killed when they were both two young adults.