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PHOTOS: Unbelievable shark attack during training exercise in San Francisco

April Fools! A collection of doctored photographs including world leaders, world events, politicians, models and Osama Bin Laden’s death photo.

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PHOTOS: Girl attacked by raccoon to get new ear

ROYAL OAK (AP) — A surgeon at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak plans to perform a procedure Tuesday that will begin the process of creating a new ear for a west Michigan girl whose face was mauled by a...

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PHOTOS: Java mouse-deer, the world’s tiniest (and cutest) deer

Photos of the Java mouse-deer, one of the world’s smallest hoofed animals, at the Fuengirola Biopark, near Malaga, Spain. The latest specimen of the world’s tiniest deer — a rare species no bigger than...

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PHOTOS: Digging for ‘E.T. The Extraterrestrial’ Atari game in a New Mexico...

Construction workers started digging into a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M., Saturday, April 26, 2014 where producers of a documentary are searching of millions of cartridges of the Atari ‘E.T. the...

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PHOTOS: Wave-Gotik-Treffen music festival in Leipzig, Germany

The event began in the 1990s and has since grown into one of the biggest gatherings of the Goth scene in Europe with around 20,000 participants. Many of those attending wear elaborate outfits and...

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PHOTOS: Nathan’s Famous 4th of July International Hot Dog Eating contest

(AP) High-ranking chowhound Joey “Jaws” Chestnut dropped to one knee and proposed to his longtime girlfriend before Friday’s annual hot dog eating contest, then packed away 61 franks and buns to hold...

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PHOTOS: Koalas pose with world leaders at G20 in Brisbane, Australia

World leaders took some time to pose with koalas in Brisbane, Australia before the start of the annual G20 Summit, November 15, 2014. Attendees of the conference are expected to discuss economic...

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15th annual No Pants! Subway Ride in San Francisco

Participants rode the BART trains with no pants during the 15th annual No Pants! Subway Ride in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016. BART riders joined subway riders from all over the world...

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Super Bowl 50: Peninsula VC creates spectacular party

The evening before Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium, venture capitalist Jillian Manus is hosting a party in her Atherton estate that will likely have people talking for years after the game is but a...

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Joey Chestnut devours 70 hot dogs to win contest

San Jose’s Joey Chestnut took the championship Mustard Yellow International Belt away from fellow San Jose native Matt Stonie by devouring a record breaking 70 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes at the...

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