A quick-thinking train engineer is being credited with saving the life of a 10-month-old poodle-terrier mix who was tied to the tracks by his elderly owner.

A bus driver in China narrowly escaped being impaled by a large blue lamppost that slammed into the windshield of his bus as he was conducting his daily route.

A heroic British Army medic who received a medal for her bravery last week recalled the harrowing experience that led to her Mention in Despatches — and the desperate plea for a peek at her boobs that came with it.

When a Georgia mother's 2-month-old baby suddenly stopped breathing, there was only one thing she could think to do: Scream at the top of her lungs.

Rhonda Westenberger, her sister Evelyn, and their five dogs are all safe and sound after a scary house fire — and they have their baby to thank for it.

Jessica Sanchez, a field reporter for Orlando's Local 6 News, was in no mood to have her Bourbon Street live shot crashed by a drunk loudmouth looking to steal some airtime, so she did what every reporter should do when confronted with a similar situation: She asked the videobomber about her STDs.

A waiter who stood up for a child with Down syndrome by refusing to serve a customer who made fun of him is receiving praise from people all over the country.

An Australian news crew filming along a beach in Queensland's Sunshine Coast happened to be on hand to witness a bare-knuckle brawl between a British grandfather and a 6-and-a-half-foot dusky shark.

23-year-old Dylan Smith of Belle Harbor, New York, who risked his life to save his Rockaway neighbors at the height of Hurricane Sandy, was found dead over the weekend after an apparent surfing accident off the coast of Puerto Rico.

Nick Cannon was on Howard Stern's Sirius show today, so of course he was talking about weird shit and of course it concerned his favorite topic, his wife Mariah Carey. That's sweet and undoubtedly key to getting along with her (you know how much she loves her lambs), but it's rare to hear so much revealed about a woman of such stature via her husband. Every interview yields a new Mariah anecdote. (Fun fact: He once confirmed to me that she will remind him that she's the biggest-selling female recording artist of all time in order to win an argument.)

'Dying to vote' became a literal reality for one elderly Michigan man who temporarily expired while filling out his absentee ballot yesterday afternoon.

Galicia Malone's water had just broken and she was on her way to the hospital to give birth to a baby girl when the 21-year-old decided to stop over at a nearby church and cast her very first vote.

An unnamed US soldier and his squad were engaged in intel gathering and reconnaissance near a village in Afghanistan's ultra-violent Kunar Province when they suddenly came under heavy machine gun fire from Taliban insurgents.

When 52-year-old Stephen St. Bernard, an MTA bus driver from Brooklyn, spotted 7-year-old Keyla McCree standing perilously close to the edge of an AC unit outside a third-story apartment in Coney Island, he immediately rushed to the rescue.

When Jeremy Kilburn broke his leg hiking while through northern California's Shasta-Trinity National Forest with longtime pal Dan Grasso, he did what anyone would do: He radioed for help.

A Florida teen is in the hospital today after he was forced to sacrifice his forearm to prevent an ornery alligator from chewing on the rest of him.

Tomas Lopez was hailed as a hero by many after he rushed to save a swimmer from drowning at Florida's Hallandale Beach earlier this week. But for his sense of duty, the 21-year-old was rewarded with a pink slip.

Dr. Russell Dohner of the sleepy Illinois town of Rushville (pop: ~3,500) has been aided by the same nurse for the past 57 years. His furniture is exactly the same too; and his office visit charge hasn't changed since the Seventies.

Despite the life-threatening nature of the injuries he sustained after a piece of metal penetrated the windshield of the bus he was driving, Wu Bin, a 48-year-old bus operator from Hangzhou, China, still managed to find the strength to stop the vehicle, lift the parking brake, put on the hazards, and ask the two-dozen passengers on board to remain seated, before passing out.

In New Jersey this morning, two construction workers sustained burns after one of them fell into a tank of nitric acid from 40 feet above, and the other jumped in to save him.