Jasmina Baldrich and Ashley Colon thought they were about to be pulled over last Monday when they noticed a police cruiser behind them, and turned on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland. There, they saw a heavy police presence, with officers approaching Ariel Castro's house. The spectacle prompted Miss Baldrich to take out her iPhone and start videotaping what was going on - the dramatic rescue of three women and a child that had been held captive there. She was also able to get a shot (inset) of Amanda Berry as she fled with her six-year-old daughter.

It's an ugly world beneath New York City, and commuters have no shortage of places to go to report bad or disgusting behavior among those riding the rails in the Big Apple. From the offenders who take up an additional seat with a bag or the degenerates disturbing the peace while clipping their nails, three websites have commuters covered.

Christopher Nixon Cox was joined by his Andrea Castimatidis - the daughter of supermarket billionaire and New York City mayoral hopeful John Castimatidis on the tour. Making the trip in homage to the 100th anniversary of his grandfather's birth, the couple enjoyed the red-carpet treatment from the Chinese government, visiting Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, including tours of Tienanmen Square and the Great Wall.

The teenager, who has not been named, left her victim Aria Jewett, also 14, with a fractured skull, pictured left, after the brutal filmed assault, pictured right, in Jacksonville, Florida. The Oceanway Middle School pupil was charged with aggravated assault and given a blanket school ban by Florida circuit Judge Henry Davis. A Florida appeals court last week suspended the order banning her from all Duval County schools.

The Church of Scientology claimed that more than 2,500 people were in attendance and a picture seemed to substantiate that, left. However eyewitnesses who were at or near the event told The Underground Bunker that the number was closer to between 450 and 750. The crowd highlighted in red were those who were photo shopped in, left, and the image on the right, taken from a different angle, shows there was actually no one there, circled.

A day before a 12-year-old boy was arrested for the stabbing to death of his 8-year-old sister, Leila Fowler, center, his mother Priscilla Rodriquez, left, described him as 'protective' of his younger sibling. Leila Fowler's killing last month shook the quiet community of Valley Springs, southeast of Sacramento, and set off an intense manhunt. Her brother was in the home at the time and told police he saw a man run from the scene.

The 33-year-old brunette sent the explosive message to Nicholas Brooks on December 8 2010 - just 18 hours before her body was found semi-naked in an overflowing hotel-room bath, Manhattan prosecutors revealed today. Bearing the subject line, F*** you, the email read: 'For the past six months I have supported you financially and emotionally. The fact that u cheated on me makes me sick and you will f***ing pay.

The third in line to the throne is not used to being bottom of the pile, but gamely got down on all fours to help form the base of a three-tier pyramid. Remarkably, the Prince also managed to rope in Britain's most senior military officer in the US, Major General Buster Howse, military attaché to the British Embassy in Washington, who crouched down beside him.

Jessica Buchanan (top left) was 32 years old when she was in Somalia teaching children how to avoid landmines with fellow care worker Poul Thisted (bottom left). Their car was hijacked by Somali bandits with AK 47's. For the next 93 days, she and Thisted slept outside, sometimes in the cold and pouring rain. They were given only one small can of tuna and a piece of bread to live off everyday until they were eventually rescued in a daring raid while they sheltered under shrubs (pictured).

Bill Gates has given an emotional interview to CBS' 60 Minutes in which he speaks about his relationship with Apple visionary Steve Jobs - telling how the two 'grew up together'. Describing their last conversation as 'forward looking', Gates, 58, also reminisced about how the two technology giants shaped Silicon Valley during a friendly rivalry that lasted over 35 years.

A startling number of teen girls have admitted to having a schoolgirl crush on bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, proclaiming their love for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect on social media. Its a disturbing trend on sites like Twitter and Facebook, where girls have admitted to finding Tsarnaev attractive, and herald him in the ranks of Justin Bieber and One Direction singer Harry Styles.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield has recorded a video cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity from the International Space Station. The Canadian astronaut has been aboard the station since December and is due to return home Tuesday. During his time he has tweeted various photos, and recorded videos explaining what it's like to live in space. His music video was a farewell message.

American software engineer Shane Todd, pictured bottom right, was unhappy at work and had written suicide notes before he died in his Singapore apartment last year as his parents continue to insist he was murdered. Parents Rick and Mary Todd, who attended the first day of the inquest into their son's death today, pictured left, believe much of the evidence pointing towards suicide to be fake. Mr Todd's former girlfriend Shirly Sarmiento, a Filipino nurse working in Singapore who discovered his body, gave evidence at the inquiry today, pictured top right.

Michael Eisele, 44, from Germany was on a fishing trip to Norway when he snared the whopper. He spent 30 minutes trying to reel in the catch and said his knees started trembling when he saw it as it breached the water. The cod was so big two of his friends had to hold him back in fear he would have been dragged overboard by it.

This Monday, jury selection will begin in the long awaited murder trial of Kelly Soo Park, 47, (right) who prosecutors in Southern California believe killed Juliana Redding, 21, (left) with her bare hands in March 2008. Prosecutors say that Park worked as 'muscle' described as a James Bond-style figure for Dr. Munir Uwaydah, who sent her 'intimidate and threaten' the aspiring actress at her Santa Monica apartment.

Saudi student Talal al Rouki (pictured right) was questioned in his Michigan home by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker. According to reports in a Saudi newspaper, the FBI are increasingly vigilant about 'pressure cooker' home-made bombs(pictured left) and have a keen eye on Arabs who reside in the US.

Heather Abbott was back in Boston yesterday, where she threw the ceremonial first pitch at the Boston Red Sox's 3-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park, just miles from the scene of the explosion that claimed her foot.

Los Angeles, California, is one of the most expensive cities in America. As the housing bust cast more and more people into the rental market, prices have gone up in cities across the country - and L.A. is no exception. The average price of rent in Los Angeles is about $1,600 a month. But you can live in L.A. on the cheap as long as you're willing to put up with certain things - like bunk beds, cats, and marijuana.

Princess Juliana International Airport on the Carbbean island of St Maarten is renowned for its low-altitude flyovers which frequently disrupt the tranquil setting as incoming Boeing 747's carry new sun seekers to the island from around the world. And even though these images make the flights look like a movie disaster waiting to happen, the safety record is impeccable. But an ominous sign does warn tourists daft enough to stand at the end of the runway that the giant jets blast is enough to sweep them off their feet - and potentially injure or even kill them.

Since October last year, immigration officials have made 33 sex trafficking arrests in New York - all from the impoverished town of Tenancingo in Mexico. Brothels in Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and Yonkers in the wider New York area were raided on April 30 (bottom and top left). Women (right) are often driven from Queens to spend a week at a time in the residential brothels so customers have 'variety'.

The pilots from Vietnam Airlines allowed model-turned actress Ly Nha Ky (left) to sit in the co-pilot's seat during a flight from Hong Kong to Hanoi last month (right). The plane was flying on auto-pilot at the time but aviation safety regulations were breached because the co-pilot had left his seat.

Laying untouched for seven decades the abandoned home was discovered three years ago after its owner died aged 91. The woman who owned the flat had left for the south of France before the Second World War and never returned. And in the 70 years since, it looks like no-one had set foot inside. The property was found near a church in the French capital's 9th arrondissement, between Pigalle red light district and Opera.

An engineer from San Francisco has turned her music downloads into wooden records using a laser cutter. The 24-year-old experimented with acrylic and paper before creating her wooden designs, and has reproduced songs from Radiohead and Joy Division. She has made the instructions available for everyone.

The sold out Color Run in Seattle saw runners - who started the race dressed in white - turn multicolored in the paint race celebrating individuality, happiness and healthiness. The sold out event was part of the single most largest event series in America with more than 100 U.S. cities participating in the race this year.

Demolition experts were left a little red-faced after they miscalculated the implosion of the silo in Redbank, Australia. Workers used 100kg of explosives in the controlled explosion, but it was not enough to bring down the building. The structure remained largely intact and was left looking like the leaning Tower of Pisa for 40 minutes until excavators arrived to push the rest of the building over.