The Israeli government has vowed to go after a 19-year-old Saudi who posted thousands of credit card numbers and claims to have a million more he's itching to publish. The hack of 6,000 active accounts Thursday -- on top of 15,000 already released -- is the teenager's second politically motivated attack this year, and Israeli officials are taking the continued threat very seriously, CNN reported.

A dog that saved one battered woman's life may go on to save many more -- by changing the role beloved family pets play in the lives of domestic abuse victims. Last year, the heroic Great Dane had thrown himself over the body of a woman who had been nearly beaten to death by her boyfriend who repeatedly struck her with both sides of a hammer.

While some countries face greater censorship on the Internet, the Swedish government is doubling-down on its vow to promote free and equal speech--by handing over the reins of the national Twitter account to "a new Swede every week!" Proudly touting its equal-rights-for-all ethos, officials from the country's tourism department decided in December to allow a different citizen to say anything they want using the @sweden Twitter account for a full seven days.

The Great Masters must have been turning in their graves — for a look at three lingerie models who went prancing through one of Paris' most famous museums in skimpy skivvies. The Musee d'Orsay, where the masterpieces of Renoir and Van Gogh hang, is threatening legal action against the French underwear company Etam — which had three models rip off their trench coats mid-gallery as part of a "flash flash" ad campaign.

A Colorado hospice care worker was able to raise an amazing $30,000 in the name of fighting cancer - but her motives were anything but benign, according to a report. The 35-year-old medical worker from Colorado was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury for swindling friends and coworkers by pretending she had cancer - a lie that she'd been stretching since 2008, according to a broadcast by Colorado’s 9News.

More than 1,100 dogs destined for a slaughterhouse were rescued this week by an animal-loving blogger in Chongqing, China, China Daily reported. The 1,137 dogs that had been cramped into cages stacked on top of each other into the back of a flatbed truck were intercepted with the help of a blogger, who goes by the surname Peng, as they were on their way to be made into food.

Heidi Klum and Seal are separating after seven years of marriage, the two confirmed in a statement on Sunday. "While we have enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul-searching we have decided to separate," the supermodel and Grammy-winning singer said. "We have had the deepest respect for one another throughout our relationship and continue to love each other very much, but we have grown apart," the statement said.

Cocaine isn't your typical study aid -- but it helped a college junior learn the lesson: buyer beware, according to a WPTV report. Sophia Stockton, a junior at Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, ordered a textbook called Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives and Issues for her Spring semester.

A 23-year-old computer gamer sat dead in his chair for at least nine hours at Internet cafe in New Taipei City and nobody noticed, the Taipei Times reported. The man, identified as Chen Rong-yu, had paid for 23 hours of web access to play League of Legends at an Internet cafe at 10 p.m. Tuesday, but died unnoticed, police told the newspaper.

The eagle of halftime show infamy has landed - rapper M.I.A. flipped "the bird" to American audiences at the Super Bowl. The Paper Planes' singer joined Madonna during a gilded and gladiator-filled halftime spectacular on Super Bowl Sunday in Indianapolis, and gave pyrotechnics a run for their money with a special gesture of her own.

A rhinoceros died Thursday while conservationists in South Africa were trying to demonstrate a procedure to protect the animals from poachers, MSNBC reports. The 20-year-old rhino named Spencer was shot with a tranquilizer gun in front of reporters invited to document a process used to identify the protected animals and deter poachers from killing them for their valuable horns.

Smoking pot within three hours of driving doubles your chance of a major crash, Canadian researchers have found. Their study, published Thursday in the British Medical Journal, the first to tackle the link between crashes and cannabis use, examined data from more than 49,411 vehicular crash victims and excluded any incidents involving alcohol.

Gabrielle Union's hair is fly - but it almost grounded her at the airport on Wednesday. The actress said her "weave got 'flagged' by the bodyscan at security," on Twitter. TSA required a hair pat-down." The “Good Deeds” star, 39, expressed surprise that the "black female TSA agent" who stopped her was so naïve about her weave.

Kirstie Mills Tancock was determined to get married if it was the last thing she did. And it almost was. "I have spent every moment living like it was my last," Tancock, a cystic fibrosis sufferer from England told ABC News. Thanks to a life-saving double-lung transplant, Tancock no longer lives in fear.

An experiment that appeared to show matter could travel faster than the speed of light - flying in the face of Einstein's theory of relativity - may have been flawed, the journal Science reported. In the original experiments, subatomic particles called neutrinos blasted from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, traveled 450 miles to Italy 60 nanoseconds faster than a beam of light.

Wedding bells rang Saturday for Elizabeth Smart, the Utah beauty kidnapped at age 14 and held captive for nine months. The 24-year-old Smart married boyfriend Matthew Gilmour, 22, in Hawaii, her uncle, Tom Smart, told the Daily News. “To be in one of her favorite places with her family has made for a dream wedding.