The lower Manhattan skyline on April 27, 2012. (DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)
Three men forced Queens accounting company owner Pedro Portugal into an SUV in broad daylight on April 18, then hid him in a warehouse in Long Island City, Queens.
Shuan Shuan, one of the two surviving giant pandas in Mexico, eats bamboo during a visit to Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on December 10, 2003.
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The former Head of State was visiting Vincennes Zoo on the outskirts of Paris, where his daughter was on work experience, when he decided to test his "presidential courage" and enter the panda's cage.
Syrian supporters of the Al-Nusra group wave flags as they march during an anti-regime demonstration in Aleppo on Feb. 8, 2013. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images)
“This building has been hit with two mortar rounds, but they didn’t damage the factory."
Police arrested a Florida man on first-degree murder charges Tuesday after he allegedly pocket dialed 911 and accidentally revealed his plot to murder another man.
A policeman puts tape across Church Street in Enfield on August 8, 2011 in London, England. (Peter Macdiarmid/AFP/Getty Images)
In the phone call recorded on May 5, 24-year-old Scott Simon can reportedly be heard telling someone that he's going to follow another man home and kill him.
Former baseball player Jose Canseco is under investigation by Las Vegas police over reports that he raped a woman that he later tweeted about. (Nick Laham/AFP/Getty Images)
Former baseball star Jose Canseco tweeted this afternoon that he was under investigation for rape.
A pigeon stands at the rooftop of a building in Cairo 18 February 2006. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
The pigeon, named after Olympic gold-medalist Usain Bolt, is expected to be used for breeding more birds. Nine of the 10 most expensive pigeons sold at the auction were paid for by buyers from China or Taiwan.
Toronto mayor Rob Ford in happier times, waving the pan american flag during the Closing Ceremony of the XVI Pan American Games at the Omnilife Stadium on October 30, 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Dennis Grombkowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has avoided questions about a video purportedly showing him smoking crack cocaine.
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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