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- An enormous dust cloud from the Sahara Desert is making its way across the Atlantic.
- A Chinese woman saved her husband by grabbing his boxer shorts as he attempted to leap to his death from the window.
- We wish we could go to school in this building shaped like a cat.
- Did you know there's a Hugh Grant Tunnel in NYC? Well there is—at least according to the MTA.
- A photographer is photographing every bodega in Manhattan.
- Breaking Bad thanks Albuquerque with some adorable billboards.
- Drinking out of a water bottle is giving you premature wrinkes.
- A Long Island fisherman is accused of illegally harvesting 86,000 pounds of fluke over three years.
- And finally, this kitteh discovers the woes of static cling:

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