A 64-year-old woman who was trying to bring some groceries from her car into her Brooklyn home Monday was interrupted when the sidewalk under her suddenly swallowed her up. The sidewalk caved in, and the woman found herself in a sinkhole about 5 feet by 2 feet wide and about five feet deep. She was trapped under two large, heavy pieces of concrete and wasn't able to move until firemen arrived to help her.

A Chinese construction company has been fined for blasting a hole through the Great Wall to make room for a highway. A section of the Wall in Inner Mongolia was demolished for a section of highway to pass through, and now Hongji Landbridge owes the Chinese government $64,000.

A campaign in Alabama is calling on voters to elect "more of these boobs" and less of "boobs" like Republican incumbent Bob Riley and Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley. Loretta Nall, the Libertarian Party's write-in candidate for governor of Alabama, says the campaign slogan "started out as a joke, but it blew up into something huge. "

According to an ABC news report, bee hives by the thousands are being stolen. Beekeepers in Tasmania estimate thefts totaling approximately $100,000. According to the experts, each bee hive, if pollinated, is worth $80 to $100.

A boatload of tourists on a whale watching trip were shocked to see hunters harpoon a whale right in front of them. The boat's skipper Geir Maan tells ABC, "We were on our way out to the whale watching area when we passed a whaling boat. "