A Pennsylvania man who was distracted by a cellphone conversation fell over the edge of the platform at a Philadelphia-area train station, slamming head-first into the tracks.

The world is a scary place! On Monday alone we had a giant sinkhole, an international incident, marauding bees and a mosquito plague. So why not take a couple minutes and watch an otter pup learning how to swim?

British actor Dominic West has made his biggest impression playing roguish Detective James McNulty on The Wire, but he's also find some success on the big screen: he played Renée Zellweger's lover in Chicago, and was soon after cast opposite Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile. In an interview in today's The Guardian, he recalls the illuminating, grueling, and sometimes extremely annoying experience of working with Hollywood's highest-paid actresses: