Nine elephants died and had their tusks removed by poachers after watering holes were poisoned in five game reserves in Zimbabwe, officials say. (Alexander Joe/Getty Images)
If this isn't karma, we don't know what is. A poacher is trampled to death by the elephant he was trying to kill in Zimbabwe.
Bernie Zak, an 18-year-old senior at Brookline High School, was placed on the wait-list to get into UCLA but was later accepted after a Twitter campaign. This image shows students walking across the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, California.
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The 18-year-old senior at Brookline High School took to Twitter to launch his campaign for college admission, using the hashtag #AcceptBernieUCLA.
Benjamin Netanyahu had a $127,000 custom-built bedroom installed on a plane chartered to carry him and his wife on a flight to London to attend Margaret Thatcher's funeral last month, a five-and-a-half-hour flight.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara cast their ballot at a polling station on election day on January 22, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/AFP/Getty Images)
Benjamin Netanyahu had a $127,000 custom-built bedroom installed on a plane chartered to carry him and his wife on a flight to London to attend Margaret Thatcher's funeral last month, a five-and-a-half-hour flight.
The "nearly complete" skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar was turned over to representatives of the government of Mongolia in a ceremony in New York. (AFP/Getty Images)
More dinosaur skeletons to be returned to Mongolia.
Barry Alan Swegle of Port Angeles drove his bulldozer into four houses, pushing one off its foundations, following a long-running dispute with neighbors over a property line.
A doctor at Mount Sinai hospital in New York was relieved of his duties after removing the wrong kidney of a man during surgery. (Christopher Furlong/AFP/Getty Images)
A doctor at Mount Sinai hospital in New York was relieved of his duties after removing the wrong kidney of a man during surgery.
The AVOID (Airborne Volcanic Object Imaging Detector) system, developed in the wake of the April 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, is designed to help aircraft avoid catastrophe.
Indonesia's 5,214-feet high Mount Lokon, a volcano, spews clouds of ash in Minahasa, on northern Sulawesi island, on December 31, 2012. (Tengku/AFP/Getty Images)
EasyJet, the low-cost European carrier, has flown a ton of Icelandic volcanic ash to Reykjavik to be used in a test for a new system designed to help aircraft avoid potential catastrophe.
A car that was left behind in a shutdown carpark is surrounded by debris after construction began to widen a street in Taiyuan in China's Shanxi province on May 6, 2013. The construction unit started working around the car for several days after they failed to contact the owner. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
The demolition of a car park in China has left one driver in a rather tight spot.
The word news most often conjures up visions of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the troubled global economy, a political crisis in Washington, erupting volcanoes and devastating earthquakes. But as we all know, there is far more to news than that. Indeed, it’s often the wacky, weird, offbeat and sometimes off-color stories that can most intrigue and fascinate us. Those stories can range from changing astrological signs to lost pyramids in Egypt but in their essence they all cast new light on the shared human condition in all of its wild diversity.
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