The pair appeared together at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin in a last-minute attempt to shore up the President's lead in the Midwestern swing state. They then travelled on Air Force One together to Ohio and Iowa, with Springsteen playing a short set before Obama delivers his campaign speech. The President was also scheduled to be joined by Jay-Z, one of his highest-profile supporters, at an event in Ohio.

Mel Angst, of Garfield, Pennsylvania, used 250,000 coins to tile the floor of her new. Angst and her crew spent more than 300 hours on the project. For their hard work and dedication, Angst rewarded her crew with a free, custom penny tattoo.

Shannon Hayes from upstate New York decided her family needed to cut costs when husband Bob Hooper was fired from his job as a county planner. Together, they can fruits and vegetables, make their own clothes, go to the grocery store once a month and barter, while also homeschooling their daughters.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said tens of thousands of people were in need of shelter, including 20,000 in public housing. Almost 2million people still have no power as cold weather sets in, a week after Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on the East Coast, killing at least 113 in the US. Hundreds of thousands of commuters today faced tricky journeys into the city as public transport remained patchy. One of the worst-hit areas was Staten Island (above).

John Haley, 47, and his wife, Stephanie Haley, 41, were charged with felony child neglect Sunday after the shivering boy knocked on a neighbor's door at 2 a.m. The Florida couple admitted to police that they locked their child out of the house as punishment.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The cringe-inducing ordeal in Los Agneles was captured on camera as a firefighters used a pair of large bolt cutters to snip the wrought iron spikes that were holding the man in place. It appeared that two spikes had punctured the man's thigh, leaving him dangling precariously on top of the fence.

A mother otter clambers onto a motorboat in Tutka Bay, Alaska as the white underside of a killer whale chases after her. She wails after her baby is eaten by the huge predator. After the motorboat carries her away from the scene, the otter jumps back in the water and desperately tries to find her offspring but to no avail. She wails as her baby is eaten by the huge predators. Juveniles are typically independent at six to eight months, but a mother may be forced to abandon a pup if she cannot find enough food for it.

Video footage captured the moment that the two-seater plane lowered over the runway in preparation for landing, when a black SUV suddenly comes into view. The car is driving perpendicular to the plane's path, and the two meet for a split second.

Doctors initially thought Emma Sohrabian, from Oxford, England, had given birth to a girl. But confusion prevailed when baby Aolani didn't develop properly, calling her gender into question. After three months she was declared female. She is thought to be suffering from a rare genetic condition.

Amanda Jencsik, 26, claimed in a lawsuit filed earlier this year that she feared for her life during an abusive four-month relationship in John Patrick Shanley. Shealleged he slapped her and held his hands over her mouth during their encounters at his Manhattan apartment, and he often asked her if she felt like he was raping her. Now his lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss her lawsuit, arguing that she willingly returned to him for sex. Her lawyers claim he had control over the aspiring actress.

In the summer of 1959, New York suffered a blackout - although the consequences were far less devastating that those wreaked by Hurricane Sandy last week. On August 31, a 500-block radius around Central Park in Manhattan suffered a black-out - believed to have been caused because the grid could not cope with so many people's refrigerators and air conditioners during a heatwave.

Jacqueline Nieves and her daughters Gabriella, six, and Isabella, one, were found in the burning building in Louisiana with stab wounds and police believe they were killed before the fire was set intentionally at their home. Investigators are questioning the children's father Carlos Nieves Jr, but no charges have yet been filed. Officials said Nieves, 27, first reported the fire at the apartment complex.

The performance by the Beaumont Central High School Band in Texas, has been accused of being overtly political and showing a clear bias towards President Obama. The school is now conducting a review into the appropriateness of 'political satire' in band performances.

Christy Edgel and her family (pictured) moved from Utah to Texas after husband Jesse lost his job. The family were unaware the four-bedroom home they rented had been used to grow 400 cannabis plants. Although landlords must tell prospective tenants if the home has previously been used to cook methamphetamine, they are not obliged to reveal if the property has been used to grow marijuana.

For a man whose career is taking pictures of naked volunteers, these photos will hardly be shocking. But to the average viewer these shots by Spencer Tunick - taken early morning at the Festival of Skeletons in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico - are rather spooky. Mr Tunick, 45, used the eerie landscape of Los Senderos village and 150 volunteers in white sheets for his 'Spirits' project, to mark the Day of the Dead, which pays tribute to those who have died.

University of Vienna researchers found Figaro fashions wooden 'rakes' out of beams and sticks and uses them inch pieces of food within reach. He is the first member of the parrot family to show this behaviour.

With Mont Blanc gleaming peacefully in the background, Slovenian climber Martina Cufar found a remote corner where she could practice her incredible grace and balanced moves in front of a stunning landscape. She climbed and then stood on a rock peak measuring just a couple of metres across, watching as the last few hours of afternoon sun rolled by.

The white rodent had been burrowing in an underground nest in the Kalahari desert in Botswana when it alerted the canine creature. The side-striped jackal quietly walked across to the dirt mound where it waited in hope. Instead of laying low until the predator wandered off, the plucky mouse took it's chances and suddenly leapt out of the hole.