A plane carrying members of a Brazilian soccer team crashed in Colombia. Seventy-six people are dead; six people survived the crash. Officials say the charter plane -- which took off from Bolivia last night -- declared an emergency before going down near Medellin.
2. Ohio State University attack
An Ohio State student rammed his car into a crowd, got out and charged at passersby with a knife. He wounded 11 before a campus police officer shot him dead. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali immigrant, said in a Facebook post that he'd grown "sick and tired" of seeing Muslims "killed and tortured."
South Korea's embattled president, Park Geun-hye, says she'll resign if that's what parliament wants. And Parliament does want it -- lawmakers are prepping an impeachment vote against Park, who's been dogged by corruption allegations involving a confidante and other aides.
5. Dylann Roof trial
Dylann Roof is representing himself at his murder trial. He's accused of killing nine people in a racially-motivated attack at a black church in South Carolina. A judge OK'd Roof's motion, so that means Roof could end up cross-examining some of the very people he's accused of attacking.
Gold rush Like Willy Wonka and his golden ticket, Bud Light is offering a golden beer can that could lead to Super Bowl tickets for life.
Year's fear Dictionary.com's word of the year is "xenophobia," and no one is celebrating that one.
A walk down the aisle Now available in Aisle 3 -- cranberry sauce and romance! A Georgia couple got married in the supermarket where they met four years ago.
Not under anybody London's given the OK for the construction of its largest skyscraper, a 1,016-foot-tall behemoth called 1 Undershaft.
Objects may be smaller than they appear Officials in a Welsh town promised a 40-meter Christmas tree. That's 131 feet for you non-metric types. Turns out the tree's just 40-feet tall. Oops!
And finally ...
Baby meets pickle Mason tries to eat a pickle for the first time. His reaction is pretty much just like ours, and we've been eating them for years. (Click to view)
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