The death of Robert McKeon on Monday, who was in charge of Veritas Capital, was ruled a suicide by a coroner who revealed that the cause of death was 'asphyxia due to neck compression'. McKeon's body was discovered at his $5m mansion in Darien, Connecticut, where he lived with his art expert wife, Clare, and their children.

Kayla Carrera became tangled in a drill machine at Deltona High School, Florida and a classmate had to rip out her hair to free her. She has been left with a swollen, bruised scalp and only clumps of hair. The girl's mother is outraged that the school failed to call 911 or that they enforced a safety rule that all students must tie up their hair in shop class.

Joshua Durcho (right) has pleaded guilty in the strangling deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Summer Rust, and her four children (pictured on the left). Summer Rust (far right), twin daughters Autumn (back center) and Kirsten Rust (left), daughter Evynn Garas (front) and Teagin Rust (front right)). He killed their mother after an argument in January 2009 and then brutally murdered the young children, fearing they could testify against him. He left their bodies stacked in a bathtub to be found later.

A young boy in Lebanon paints a haunting picture of the extremes of violence underway after an American-made anti-Islam film inflicted chaos across the world. In Cairo, Egypt, a protester stands on a burnt car during clashes with riot police by the U.S. embassy (top), while protesters set alight an American flag in Bangladesh (bottom). Symbols of America have been targeted around the globe in a fourth day of protest after Tuesday's deadly raid on the American consulate in Libya. Three people were killed on Friday - two in Tunisia and one in Egypt - as protesters battled with police and raised a black Islamic flag over the U.S. embassy in Tunis.

Sandy Dahl (right), who was married to captain Jason Dahl (left), passed away unexpectedly in her sleep in May while staying at a friend's house in Lakewood, Colorado. An autopsy has revealed she had anti-depression, anti-anxiety, painkiller and tranquilizer drugs in her blood stream when she died. It came after a decade of tireless work maintaining the memory of those on board Flight 93 who perished on September 11, 2001 after crashing in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania (pictured).

Long before Jennifer Granholm made her bizarrely energetic speech at the DNC last week, she appeared as a bright-eyed and bushy tailed contestant in an episode of The Dating Game. Granholm appears on the show as bright-eyed, bushy-tailed 19-year-old wearing a bust-enhancing shirt and boasting an impressive blonde bouffant.

The first lady was grilled by students at an after-school program at a YMCA in Fredericksburg, Virginia on Thursday. The children seemed to feel more at ease with the first lady, as one student asked her if she likes the president. 'I do like Obama,' she said, 'I like him a lot.'

Ciudad Valdeluz was built to be a bustling modern metropolis and to house 30,000 people. Instead, it has become a ghost town characterised by deserted streets and empty spaces. Barely 1000 people have moved there and those that do must live with only basic services including a supermarket and a medical centre open only two days a week.

29-year-old Erin B. Holdsworth was sentenced to 18 months in jail on Friday after driving down an Ohio highway drunk and almost completely naked in October. She was also ordered to pay a fine of $525.

The ashes of the 'reluctant' icon of the 1960s Space Race were transported on the guided missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea and were committed to the Atlantic Ocean. Yesterday, Armstrong was praised in a memorial service at the National Cathedral as a humble hero who led mankind into space.

Footage posted to Facebook shows little Giovanni Madrid (pictured) seated on the lap of his daddy, Marine Corporal Marcos Madrid, steering the couple's car in what appears to be rainy conditions near the Madrid's home in Richlands, North Carolina.

The shocking video shows that as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production, industry and vehicles have increased, temperatures have climbed.

Larry Allen Austin, 29, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to four years in prison on a firearm charge by District Judge Jerry D. Bass, who later performed a ceremony to wed Austin to his longtime girlfriend, Dustie Trojack.

Apple has almost finished work on a massive solar farm next to its data center (white building in background) in North Carolina, hoping to boost its green credentials - but scarring the landscape with a 100-acre eyesore at the same time. Organisations such as Greenpeace have, in the past, accused Apple of hurting the environment by using coal to power these centres.

Laura Detert, of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, took out the enormous animal - which is twice the size of the average black bear - last Thursday. Her and husband Ken are sending in the bear's measurements to see if it breaks any records.

'We weren't looking for a relationship, but we surprised each other,' Don Stranathan, 60, who's currently battling lung cancer in California said of his romance with Penny Blume, 50, who's in treatment in New York. An at first unlikely match judging by location, the two became close over their shared interests as well as their dedicated fight to survive.

The alleged leader of the gang, 22-year-old Equonne Howard, used his own 2003 BMW X5 to crash through into a Californian Apple store around 5am last Thursday, police said. Howard pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of vandalism, burglary, and theft of electronics.

Zeus, a three-year-old Great Dane from Michigan has been named the world's tallest dog by Guinness World Records after being measured at 44in. Zeus weights 155lbs and eats a 30lbs bag of food every day. Owner Denise Doorlag (right) says he is so big little children often mistake him for a pony.

It's the stuff of nightmares for arachnophobes: Giant eight-legged creatures, crawling over the rooftop of a building, seemingly waiting to pounce on their next victim. But this is no arachnid invasion. It's an optical illusion so realistic it's enough to make the bravest soul's skin crawl. These images painted on top of a warehouse in Seattle of harvestman arachnids - otherwise known as a Daddy Long Legs - seemingly spring to life when viewed from a particular angle.

An elephant was caught feeding himself from the top of a tree by standing on its hind legs reaching for top-branch leaves at Mana Pools park in Zimbabwe. This behaviour, normally attributed to giraffes, has made the Mana Pools elephants famous but has rarely been seen on camera.