For anyone who's had this thought while waiting for a train, what a relief to know it works — a 50-something-year-old man who fell in front of an R train yesterday survived after he dove down into the trough between the tracks.

An Indian diplomat who championed women's rights is being criminally charged in New York for paying her female nanny $3.31 an hour and lying about it on the woman's visa application.

Neither the Justice Department nor the ABA have any idea exactly how many laws there are in the U.S. (the official guesstimate is around 3,000). "There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime," John Baker, a retired LSU law professor told the Wall Street Journal.

Today we lost the dashing, dry-witted, über-talented Peter O'Toole, and his legendary performances are rightly being commemorated. But O'Toole had more than just acting chops — he had the charisma and the gravitas to, say, pull off riding into Letterman smoking a cigarette atop a camel, which he later fed a Heineken.

Johns Hopkins, one of the world's leading research universities, has apparently been skinning rat penises, pissing off PETA and Ron Jeremy, who has been citing his own penis in an effort to shut the experiments down.

[A group of Zulu warriors from KwaZulu Natal watch jets fly over the burial of former South African president Nelson Mandela from a public viewing tent nearby. Photo by Antoine de Ras via AP]

Here are the three finalists for the role of SNL's only black female castmember.

Italian Nina De Chiffre kissed a police officer last month during a protest of a high speed rail line in Turin. It made for a pretty incredible photo. It was also, according to the police officer, sexual assault.

An Air France flight that was scheduled to fly from Caracas to Paris was grounded Saturday after a reported terror threat.

Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev heard voices, but his family ignored signs of his mental illness. The Boston Globe has a huge investigative piece on the family of the two Tsarnaev brothers.

Peter O'Toole, an eight-time Academy Award nominee and star of Lawrence of Arabia, has died at the age of 81. He passed away after a long illness.

A Florida Wal-Mart worker shot up another employee's car after the other worker won employee of the month, investigators believe.

[A Pro-European Union supporter, his mustaches painted in yellow-and-blue Ukrainian national flag colors, at a mass rally in Kiev Ukraine. Photo by Efrem Lukatsky via AP]

Bummer: Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley's house burned down.

Nelson Mandela was buried Sunday in the small town he grew up in, capping ten days of mourning for the South African leader and anti-apartheid crusader.

George Rodrigue, the Louisiana artist whose 'Blue Dog' paintings you've seen in living rooms across the nation, has died at the age of 69.

Kim Jong-un has let his aunt remain a top official in North Korea, even after he executed her husband, Jang Song-thaek, on Friday. Jang Song-thaek was a mentor to Kim Jong-un and second-in-command of the security-minded nation.

Pope Francis: Not a Marxist, but he knows a bunch "who are good people."

[A makeshift memorial with crosses for the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre stands outside a home in Newtown, Conn.. Photo by Robert F. Bukaty via AP]

A dad filmed 25 years of Christmas mornings.