Ashley Anne Riggitano (left), 22, leapt from George Washington Bridge (top right), leaving behind a handwritten grudge list naming five people who had made her unhappy, and whom she did not want at her funeral. It is believed that earlier in the day, Victoria Van Thunen (bottom right), who co-owned a jewelry line with Riggitano, posted a Facebook rant allegedly accusing the young woman of blaming others for her problems.

Rodeo Drive attracts sophisticated shoppers from around the globe, who flock to the Beverly Hills district to snatch up the latest looks hot off the runway. Photographer Anthony Hernandez captured the mix of high class street strollers in the 1980s and compiled 41 images into a new book Rodeo Drive, 1984, published by MACK.

Bonny Anne Cooner, 33, pictured left and right, was last seen on January 28 at the Canon, Georgia, property she shared with her boyfriend Brent, pictured center, and son Gavin, 12. On Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation joined the Franklin County Sheriff's Office in searching for the woman as Brent's niece, Michelle Pilgrim, alleged her uncle was behind Cooner's disappearance.

NEW Dora Estrada, 62, was sleeping in a ground-floor bedroom at her home in Houston, Texas when a truck slammed into the house shortly after 2am on Thursday, causing the structure to collapse and bury her under the rubble. The truck driver, 22-year-old Mario Hernandez, died at the scene.

On the bustling streets of New York most are blithely unaware of the blasting and grinding of heavy machinery beneath them, as well as the eerie underworld of miles of tunnels, an eight-story cavern and watery pits. But this future grand concourse, today seen surrounded by dripping stone walls and lapping puddles, will lead to six miles of underground track and provide more floor space when finished than New Orleans' Superdome stadium.

Some 16 men and women of the Amish community in Bergholz, Ohio face ten years in prison when they are sentenced on February 8 for the beard-cutting of members who left the community. They have asked the judge for leniency so they can return to their homes and farms to teach their sons a trade and daughters how to sew, cook and keep house.

What he didn't realise was that he would be caught not so much red-handed as red-sprinkled. The charming moment when John denies his guilt was captured on camera on Wednesday morning by his mother, Erica, who posted the video clip on YouTube.

The body of Sarai Sierra arrived home in Staten Island, New York from Istanbul on Thursday, as her family prepares for the funeral to remember the 33-year-old who was murdered while vacationing in Turkey. Her husband, Steven - who himself returned from Turkey late last night after helping local police, had refused to let anyone else tell their sons what had happened until he returned to the US.

Laura King said her three children, aged two, three and eight, were just being 'their normal selves' during a meal at Sogno di Vino restaurant in Poulsbo, Washington. An image of the receipt became an internet hit after it was posted on Reddit.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Honor roll student Chase Cristia, 16, was viciously attacked on a school bus in Pasco County, Florida by a fellow student who then posted a video of the sickening incident on Facebook and bragged about it. During the brief but brutal beating an unnamed 17-year old girl grabs Chase and repeatedly punches her on the back of the head and neck at least 10 times.

The State of the Union is the president's chance to sum up the condition of the nation each year. But photographer Alix Smith has used a play on the phrase to sum up the changing face of the American family, with a collection of stately portraits of same-sex couples, their children and pets. Throughout history heterosexual families have been remembered through portraiture and Smith's project gives same-sex families the opportunity to claim their place in history, at a time when they are still not fully recognized, legally or culturally.

Wesley Daniel, 24, left Loyola University Medical in Chicago on Thursday with his second-degree burns heavily bandaged (right). His head caught on fire during an opera dress rehearsal on Tuesday (below left). As he was engulfed in flames during a rehearsal for Wagner opera Die Meistersinger von Nurenberg, Mr Daniel (top left) staggered away and collapsed off stage.

Xiao Li, 20, had asked friend Xiao Qing to take some dramatic shots of her with hair flying back as the train raced past her in Shaodong, Hunan province, southern China. But as the Li attempted to strike a suitable pose she stumbled on the stony trackbed straight into the path of the train and was sent flying as it clipped her on the left shoulder.

The bodies of Phillip Marshall and his children Miacalia, 14, and Alex, 17, were discovered when friends of the teens went to the family home and looked through the windows. Sheriff's Sgt. Chris Hewitt says when deputies arrived around 3pm on. Saturday, they found the victims dead of apparent gunshot wounds in what they believe is a murder suicide.

The in-depth picture of 30-year old Kelly Hughes' features shows clusters of unsightly pockmarks which can lead to cancer. The account manager from England started using sunbeds at the local gym when she was 16 to maintain a holiday glow. Mortified by the results of the scan, she has now ditched her sunbed habit.

Florida has a new business slogan that is being branded as sexist because it replaces the 'i' in the state's name with a man's necktie. The logo, 'Florida: The Perfect Climate for Business,' was unveiled recently by the governor and members of Enterprise Florida, a pro-business group that's funded in part by the state.

Police in Heyuan, Guangdong province, believe the gang are responsible for hundreds of baby abductions across China, either stealing to order or snatching babies 'on spec' and selling them on to other gangs. These 13 children - all about one month old - were being kept in an underground nursery found by police when they arrested 33 members of the trafficking gang.

Ditching her famous red hair, a new copy of the classic book, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery, features a blonde 20-something woman running her hands through her hair with slightly pouting lips. The new cover is getting backlash for featuring the attractive young woman instead of a red headed child.

The Buffalino camper van has been forged from a humble three-wheeled Piaggio scooter and transformed into a mobile home perfect for one. The van has everything the lone rider could ask for, including a fold-up bed, a sink underneath the handlebars, a kitchen with refrigerator and running water and of course a place to hook up your laptop.

Scandinavian design brand ISAK has asked couples to upload images of themselves 'naked or semi-naked' in a tribute to their cheeky Viking cartoon characters which appear across their home accessories range in various states of undress. But their bare-faced cheek has not been received well by Facebook users who have inundated the social networking site with complaints and have sent ISAK founder, Sandra Isaksson, hundreds of angry letters and emails complaining about the x-rated images.

Christian Peter Gunner (inset), 63, planted and pruned thousands of trees so the words 'Jesus I am the way, the truth and the life' are visible from above his farm near Chiddingly, West Sussex (pictured). The father of five had the idea to create the heavenly message in the 1990s - and has now made his vision a reality in a field near the home he shares with wife Faith. He first created the design on a computer, before mowing the pattern out and using a tape measure and string to mark where the trees should go.

The world's ocean floor is littered with around 3 million shipwrecks according to the United Nations. But one of the most captivating is in a pool of water much smaller - the bottom of an Ontario lake.