Six jailed members of a lucrative “human butchery” enterprise can challenge the length of their sentences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Mastermind Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male ...

A Brazilian body-modification enthusiast has been dubbed “the devil” after horrifying followers with his latest act of self-mutilation. Fernando Franco de Oliveira, who hails from São Paulo, first ...

A heavily tattooed and mutilated man dubbed the "Human Satan" because of his many body modifications has suffered complications following an operation that resulted in the removal of his navel. Now he ...

Body modification fan Heidi Zitna, 44, has spent nearly 25 years as a professional tattoo artist and has now decided to ...

The mastermind behind the "eunuch maker" extreme body modification ring has lost an appeal against his life sentence. Warning: The following article contains graphic details of extreme physical ...

The earliest evidence of facial piercing in Africa has been discovered in the skeletal remains of a young man who lived around 12,000 years ago. After reanalyzing the teeth of the man, researchers ...