On top of the world! Yosemite climbers celebrate with a fist bump and a hug as they become the first men to reach the summit of El Capitan's Dawn Wall without bolts or tools in 19 grueling days
UPDATED Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson became the first to climb El Capitan's so-called Dawn Wall at Yosemite National Park without bolts or climbing tools on Wednesday afternoon. Caldwell and Jorgeson, who trained for five years before taking on the epic feat, began their climb on December 27. The men celebrated by fist-bumping (inset) and embracing (middle) one another they reached the summit, celebrating afterwards with family. Caldwell was joined by his wife Rebecca (left) while Jorgeson gave his girlfriend Jacqui Becker a kiss (right).
Catholic teacher, 35, convicted of having sex with student, 15, collapses TWICE as she's given 8 to 25 YEARS in prison after rejecting plea deal that would have given her just a few months
Abigail Simon (pictured), 35, was found guilty in November of three counts of sexual assault and one of accosting a minor and a judge decided on Wednesday that she will spend 8-15 years in jail. The sentence comes after she rejected a plea deal that could have put her behind bars for just months.Abigail Simon, 35, collapsed twice (pictured right) during the hearing, which lasted over two hours.
The very first Coke? It was Bordeaux mixed with cocaine... and 23 other interesting facts about the world's best-known brand
Coca-Cola is the world's best-known brand. In 2012, more than 1.8 billion people in more than 200 countries drank a Coke every day - about one for every four human beings on the planet.
BREAKING NEWS: Paris policewoman injured outside President Hollande's palace after 'driver deliberately knocked her down'
Witnesses have said the motorist deliberately knocked down the officer outside the Élysée Palace and two people have been arrested.
Rosie Perez quits The View as ABC considers abandoning the show amid plummeting ratings and behind-the-scenes skirmishes
The 50-year-old actress was on a month-long hiatus to perform in Broadway's Fish in the Dark when the departure was revealed Wednesday.
Indianapolis Colts linebacker charged with raping woman who 'fled his home bleeding from the ear after she tried physically fighting him off'
NEW Former Army officer Josh McNary, 26, was charged with rape, criminal confinement and battery resulting in bodily injury after a December 1 incident.
Son who 'murdered his hedge fund dad after his allowance was cut off' could inherit a third of his his $1.6 million will
Princeton graduate Thomas Gilbert Jr. charged with murdering his father Thomas Gilbert Sr. may inherit a portion of his $1.6 million will it was revealed in a Manhattan court on Wednesday.
Widow of Jennifer Aniston's self-proclaimed 'first love' slams actress for calling him 'the one' in recent interview revealing 'she was not present during his difficult illness'
The widow of a man who Jennifer Aniston (right) recently called 'the one' in an interview is slamming the actress over her comments. Mujah Maraini-Melehi, who was married Daniel McDonald and had two children with the actor (left)before he tragically passed away, is calling out the 'media savvy' actress saying 'she was not present during his difficult illness.' McDonald, who dated Aniston for five years in the 90s, died in 2007 of brain cancer.
Two Florida high school football players charged with 'raping 15-year-old girl in classroom'
NEW Two high school students have been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in a classroom Monday at Dixie Hollins High School in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Woman sues tights company because the product didn't give her orgasms like the woman in the product's commercial
NEW A New York woman is suing a tights manufacturing company because the product didn't give her sexual pleasure as allegedly advertised in the product's sexually suggestive commercial.
Defense contractor 'Fat Leonard' who bribed Navy officers and provided them with hookers in $20million overbilling scandal pleads guilty
NEW Leonard Glenn Francis 'Fat Leonard,' A Malaysian defense contractor at the center of a probe into a multi-million dollar Navy bribery scandal will plead guilty on Thursday in San Diego.
'Trash like you': Ailing teen horrified by nasty message scrawled in Umami Burger takeout box further sickened when she learns it had contained actual garbage
Juliette Borghesan, 15, was distraught to find the message written the takeout box her father brought her as she recovered from pneumonia.
Ohio Muslim convert, 20, arrested for plotting ISIS-inspired pipe-bomb attack on the US Capitol as suspect's father says he was a loner 'Mama's boy'
Christopher Lee Cornell, of Green Township, Ohio, is accused of planning to detonate pipe bombs in the Capitol and then fire on fleeing government employees. Cornell, also known as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, was arrested at a gun store after purchasing fireamrs and charged with attempting to kill a government official. According to a criminal complaint, the 20-year-old first showed up on the FBI's radar several months ago after he sent out a tweet in support of violent 'jihad.'
Secret Service dumps four senior officials after series of security lapses that included a knife-wielding White House fence jumper
An assistant director in charge of Secret Service training who also headed Obama's protective detail is also retiring as a result of an audit that found the agency is 'starved for leadership.'
Duke University Chapel makes controversial decision to have Muslim call to prayer chanted from its bell tower every Friday
NEW The Muslim call to prayer will soon be heard every week across the campus of Duke University in North Carolina. As the Muslim Students Association announces its weekly prayer meeting
Bitcoin trader, 18, accused of bludgeoning his lawyer roommate to death says he was tied up at gunpoint and forced to sell his assets
Quentin Capobianco told police that 29-year-old Jesse Smith ordered him to sell his stocks to pay for some damages in the upmarket Astoria apartment they shared.
She was asleep in five minutes and dead in 30: Brittany Maynard's widower describes cancer-stricken wife's 'peaceful' final minutes after taking drug to end her life
Maynard's widower Dan Diaz has come out to describe her last moments on earth, after taking a lethal dose of secobarbital at their home in Portland, Oregon on November 1.
'The Internet has your back bro': Car dealership cruelly shames pizza delivery man by calling him back and taking away his tip and then posts the video - which backfires spectacularly
The staff at a car dealership who decided to post a video in which they shame a pizza delivery man are now getting a taste of their own medicine. Workers who have been identified as employees at F & R Auto Sales in Westport, Massachusetts (inset), made a worker from Palace Pizza return and give them back their tip (above) after they claimed that he just ran off with the money. Making the entire thing even more cruel is the fact that they gave him two two twenties and two fives on a bill of $42, making it seem clear that the extra money was for him - something he even confirmed with the workers.
Cleveland kidnapping victims Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus set to release memoir detailing decade of torture
The women, who escaped the home with a third kidnapping victim, Michelle Knight, in July 2013, will release the memoir, 'Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland', on April 28.
7th Heaven actor Stephen Collins forced to stand next to the estranged wife who released his taped pedophile confession as pair start court divorce battle
The disgraced soap star stood side by side with his estranged wife Faye Grant in the LA Court as the judge set February 9 as the date that divorce proceedings will begin.
The heartbreaking scene of 100 dead cows floating in a lake, after the herd wandered onto the frozen reservoir, broke through the ice and drowned
Last week, about 100 cows wandered out onto a frozen over reservoir in South Dakota last week, broke through the ice and drowned.
Google reveals DIY phone where you can replace a smashed screen in a second: $50 handset allows users to clip in batteries, speakers and even a night vision camera
Google plans to launch the radical handset, which allows users to add everything from an extra battery to a thermometer, in Puerto Rico this year.
'Dream house' built by Bob Hope where the actor lived with his family for 64 years and later died put on the market for $23 million
The Toluca Lake mansion - called The Hope Estate- is set on 5.2-acres in the San Fernando Valley and has everything you would expect from the screen and stage veteran and his wife, Dolores, including a golf course in the backyard. The yard is so big that President Nixon once landed his helicopter in it. The house, which was first put on the market in 2013 for $27 million but then delisted, has been in the Hope family for the last 75 years, or since it was built in 1939. Hope died at the home in 2003 aged 100, as did his wife Dolores, in 2011, aged 102.
Mother reports her son missing 20 YEARS after he left to follow the Grateful Dead
Margaretta Evans, 63, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, told police that 'she has not seen or heard from her son since early June of 1995,' according to a report filed on Tuesday morning.
Five more Guantanamo detainees transferred leaving 122 in the detention center Obama pledged to close
NEW Five men from Yemen were freed from the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after more than a dozen years of captivity and sent to Oman and Estonia.
Bill Cosby 'victim' tells police how he drugged her in 2008 when she was just 18 at Playboy Mansion party as police launch full-scale probe into comedy legend
Chloe Goins, 24, is making a statement to Los Angeles police today describing how she was attacked in 2008, which is believed to be within the statue of limitations for prosecuting sex crimes.
'I'll be moving onto something less messy': 22 year old creator of website which lets you send glitter to your enemies is selling up just 24 hours after launching the site
NEW A mere 24 hours after it launched, the Sydney website which allows you to send angry notes and glitter to your enemies, is now up for sale.
Woman has her 8ft alligator pet seized by cops after claims she was feeding it feral cats after the creature was found surrounded by kitten carcasses
The female crocodile named Jaxson believed to be 37 years old was found in a box with a lid at the home of Laura Mattson, who had been caring for the reptile for years, possibly decades. 'It was found under foliage and debris. You had to be looking for it to locate it,' said Mark Salazar, of field operations director for Los Angeles Animal Services.
Why you really think it was better in your day: Our strongest recollections are formed between ages of 15 and 25
A survey has revealed 70% of British adults say the world is getting worse but psychologists say this is due to our happiest memories being formed between the ages of 15 and 25.
Ohio man high on cocaine binge who brutally killed his four poker buddies to get more drugs is sentenced to life in prison
An Ohio man has been sentenced to life for brutally beating and killing four men last year while high on a cocaine binge trying to steal money for more drugs.
How throwing away your saucepans, avoiding clingfilm and other wacky ideas can delay the MENOPAUSE
Weight gain, lower sex drive and greater risk of heart disease are a few of the symptoms women get during the menopause. Dr Marilyn Glanville (pictured) explains how to prevent this.
How 3.5inch heels could prematurely age your joints: Walking in stilettos this high causes changes to the gait seen in ageing and those with arthritic knees
The most common form of arthritis, osteoarthritis, caused by wear and tear of cartilage that helps our joints take the strain of bending, lifting, gripping and kneeling, affects more than eight million Britons.
How I got to grips with Pippa's very hands-on yoga guru: An intimate encounter with the man who helps shape the world's most famous rear
Britain's 'most touchy-feely yoga teacher' is sitting cross-legged, very hairy, semi-naked and discussing his long, grey, surprisingly soft locks. Stewart Gilchrist - the man once described as the Marmite of Yoga, whose devoted clients include Kate Moss and the Hollywood star Woody Harrelson - is a man utterly bemused by the fame that has engulfed him the past few days, writes Jane Fryer.
He's the prince of presents! George amasses almost 800 gifts - including a surfboard, two dream catchers, a fluffy wombat and a toy boat - in just one year
Prince George was given almost 800 gifts during 2014, including a miniature boat, a surfboard and a cuddly toy wombat. 603 of the presents were picked up in Australia and 126 in New Zealand.
Sarah Ferguson says Princess Diana would have been the 'naughtiest, funniest' grandmother to Prince George
The Duchess of York told Meredith Vieira: '[Diana] would have just been the naughtiest, funniest and the best ever just because she loved her boys so much.'
Breastfeeding moms donate their milk to help feed a five-month-old boy after his own mother, 32, dies suddenly of a heart attack
Liz Marquez, a 32-year-old mother of five from Diamond Bar, California, suffered cardiac arrest, leaving behind Brixton, her premature son, whom she'd planned to breastfeed for at least a year.
I don't love my stepchildren. It's a confession that will jolt you. But perhaps even MORE shocking is that Katrina claims she speaks for millions of mothers . . .
Katrina Simmons (left) says she struggles to develop a deeper connection with her stepchildren as they show her little respect. She thinks many other women feel the same.
Arizona officer's bodycam records the blood-curdling moment a man pulls a gun from his pocket and shoots him dead... just minutes after they had been talking amicably
UPDATED The nearly 14-minute video from Flagstaff Police Officer Tyler Stewart's body camera ends with a gun pointed at the rookie officer (top left) him by 28-year-old Robert Smith (bottom left). Moments after the officer asked if he could check Smith for weapons, Smith pulled a .22-caliber revolver from his right pocket and fired six shots at Stewart, five of which hit the 24-year-old officer: four in the head and one in the lower back.
Connecticut cop who was caught on camera as he repeatedly stomped a tasered man found NOT GUILTY of brutality
Bridgeport police officer Clive Higgins was one of three officers accused of brutally beating Orlando Lopez-Soto in 2011.
15 school children hurt as bus overturns in North Carolina after 'distracted driver' veered off the road
Officials say a school bus carrying a driver and 45 students from a North Carolina middle school has overturned, injuring 15 of the children after the driver got 'distracted.'
FBI raid Florida offices of Wolf of Wall Street executive and fraudster played by Jonah Hill in hit Hollywood movie
Porush is a top executive at Med-Care and inspired the character portrayed by actor Jonah Hill in the film which told the story of defunct brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont Inc.
Shirts printed with Kurt Cobain's suicide note are pulled from Etsy and eBay after sparking outrage
A Reddit user called attention to the first shirt, a tank top sold on Etsy for $14.99. eBay also removed a $25.19 baseball-style shirt, bearing the Nirvana frontman's heartbreaking parting words.
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