A report calls out the left for embracing fundamentalists

It's different when the prankster is the butt of the joke

Police said the man appeared to have become angry and slapped the toddler before burning him with a cigarette and leaving him with a slight injury

Welcome to the modern art museum, where hundreds of illustrators, graffiti taggers and fine artists offer up their services – with only one rule: you must take their work home on your skin.

On the road in Reykjavik, Iceland

The plot feint that occurs about half an hour into this New York-set revenge thriller is the single interesting thing about it. Colin Farrell plays the hardnut enforcer of a mob boss (Terrence Howard) who's being targeted by an anonymous foe; the story kicks off with one of his minions found in the deep freeze with a message threatening more to follow.

Some employees of a real estate company in New York are really pushing the meaning of 'company loyalty', by voluntarily being inked with the company's logo.

Prosecution alleges abduction and killing was sexually motivated

Increasingly popular unlicensed tattoo parlours are putting users at risk of contracting hepatitis and HIV, council leaders have warned.

It's every parent's nightmare: the little darlings you've spent years raising say they want body modifications.

The celebrity fad for inkings has taken an alarming turn: now they’re doing it themselves, says Rebecca Armstrong

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I’ve been physically and verbally attacked for how I look - but to highlight goths, emos and punks would actually deepen the subculture

Another week, another sin of the flesh. It seems extraordinary that once the wildest tattoo we’d seen was a Celtic band around a flabby male upper-arm. Now it’s all multiple Miley Cyruses here and misshapen chest-wide creatures there. Someone’s got to keep watch.