Investors: watch out for TICs no, not the bloodthirsty kind you have to be on guard for after a charming walk in the woods.

FORBES: TICs Suck Investors Dry

Shamil Basaev, a legendary commander understandably seen as a bloodthirsty terrorist in Russia, is said to have been wounded in the leg although the Russians say this report may be disinformation designed to help the real Mr Basaev escape.

ECONOMIST: Russia

In these still-startling images of New York's fight clubs in an era when public boxing was banned because of its brutal violence Bellows captures the savagery of the sport, not only in the ring itself but among the howling, bloodthirsty spectators.

WSJ: George Bellows at Washington's National Gallery of Art