Karla Barba enters the courthouse as her trial continues in the case of an attack with a samurai sword on her boyfriend Franklin Larrea at Queens Supreme Court in Queens on Thursday, January 24, 2019.

Japan's ancient samurai swords were once used to slice apart enemies, but in a new fitness craze they serve to slash away at extra pounds and cut down on modern-day stress instead.

I will slice your head in you fucking little muppet.’ Tickle, of Haydock, was drunk and had been taking cocaine when he got into the ice cream van with the sword at 5.40pm on July 1, the court ...