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.

Facebook's operator Sheryl Sandberg, pictured, earned $401 million in company stock and sold $7.4 million in exchange for cash as part of a $3.1 billion dollar payday at the company. Some are now wondering if employees will begin leaving the company in droves.

Maddox Derkosh had 'no chance' of surviving after falling 11 feet into the dog pit at the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium while his horrified parents Jason and Elizabeth Derkosh looked on helpless. Desperate rescue attempts by zookeepers and armed police officers could not deter the 11 aggressive beasts as they savagely attacked the two-year-old from Pleasant Hills on Sunday morning.

John Filipowicz, 51, and his son John, 20, who died side-by-side as the fierce floodwaters of Superstorm Sandy rushed into their home, were buried together on Monday in an emotional funeral. The service at Staten Island's St Charles Church was attended by dozens of mourners, including John Sr's wife Christine and their surviving children Joseph - John Jr's twin brother - and 16-year-old Cali.

While people on Staten Island struggle with a lack of food, clean water, or electricity, the wealthy residents of Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood were mourning the loss of their luxury cars. Porches, BMWs, and Range Rovers were just a few of the beautiful autos battered by rising flood waters in trendy Tribeca garages.

Nearly two hours before the crash, Mitch Lucker posted a photo of himself dressed up as a suit-wearing skeleton with the caption 'The dead are living'. The 28-year-old was one of the founding members of Suicide Silence, as Lucker started the deathcore band with five others in 2002.

The controversy began during the NFL on Fox halftime show on Sunday as Bradshaw and the other analysts were watching a replay of Miami Dolphins running back Reggie Bush swiftly dodging Indianapolis Colts defenders with some impressive fakes and fancy footwork. But as Bush crossed into the end zone for the score, Bradshaw said: 'Look at this Jimmy, like he was chasing that bucket of chicken that the wind was blowing the other day.'

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.

Baby clothes with Fifty Shades-inspired taglines have begun to appear on websites for expecting parents who may have the saucy books to thank for their new bundles of joy. Buzzfeed picked a few samples of the goods mostly available on design and crafts super-site, Etsy, which include such slogans as 'My mommy pretends Christrian Grey is My Daddy'.

James Washington was having a heart attack when he called a police officer over to his Nashville, Tennessee hospital bed in 2009. Washington had long been linked to the murder of Joyce Goodener, who was found stabbed in the neck, beaten to death with a cinderblock and set on fire in an abandoned Nashville, Tennessee house.

O.J. Simpson's ex-girlfiend is being held on $10,000 bail after police say she stole a purse from a woman outside a mall in Fargo, North Dakota. Christie Prody pled not guilty to charges that she tried to steal the purse from an unnamed woman who allegedly stuggled with Prody over the bag until mall security arrived.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The incredible shots are not computer-generated stills of an alien planet in a sci-fi film but were in fact captured from a Cessna light aircraft - over Iceland. Russian snapper Andrey Ermolaev clocked up around 4,300 miles flying above some of the Nordic nation's most spectacular vistas.

Judging by these images, it would appear the pair were unable to wait for tomorrow's election and decided to settle the matter the old-fashioned way. The pictures are the handiwork of Alison Jackson, who is well-known for her elaborate and often believable 'spoof' photos, which use lookalikes to give a 'behind-the-scenes' insight into the world of celebrities and Royals.

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.