An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.

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PHOENIX - The body of a man who apparently tried to break into an elementary school was discovered Friday in an air conditioning duct on the roof of the cafeteria, police said.

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A Californian who tried to kill his girlfriend by leaving her in a car parked across railway lines was himself killed when an oncoming train hurled the car into him as he fled.

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The African elephant is a highly sociable animal, whose strict matriarchal hierarchy puts the care and protection of its young at top priority. But as these amazing pictures show, sometimes even in this most maternal of species, things can go terribly wrong.

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A 65-year-old golfer died Tuesday after his golf cart plunged 75 feet off a cliff and crashed into a road below, authorities said. Edwin Payne teed off with three friends on the second hole of the Pala Mesa Resort Golf Course in northern San Diego County at around 10 a.m. and then got into his cart.

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Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire.

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Over 1,000 pregnant women in South Africa set a new world record Saturday for the largest gathering of women due to give birth -- and there were no early arrivals. The event needed only 100 pregnant women to set the record, but attracted 1,146 which was verified by independent adjudicators to enter the Guinness Book of World Records

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A 400-pound gorilla escaped from its enclosure and ran amok in a Rotterdam zoo Friday, biting one woman, dragging her around and causing scenes of panic among dozens of families before being subdued, zoo officials said.

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A woman who was attacked by a shark on a West Australian reef says all she could think of was fighting it off before it could savage her teenage son wading alongside or the 3-year-old on her hip.

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In some workshops in the village of Danao, the locals have turned illegal gun-making into a veritable cottage industry.

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