A Long Island family lived out a nightmare Halloween this year when they opened their door to some trick-or-treaters who turned out to be dressed up as masked gunmen intent on robbing them.

Cast and crew members on the set of Midnight Rider were still scrambling off the tracks seconds before a freight train struck and killed a second camera assistant, video released by the railroad shows.

St. Louis county police instituted a no-fly zone over the Ferguson protests solely to prevent news helicopters from covering the events, recorded conversations obtained by the AP reveal.

On Saturday afternoon, a man in Western Australia decided to board the carcass of a dead whale that had been floating in the water for several weeks, "surfing" it for fun—until he noticed that the waters all around him were spotted with hungry sharks.

A young, sexually adventurous couple was caught having sex on a bench by a car park attendant in Bengbu, a city in China's northern Anhui Province. Instead of stopping, the couple reportedly "just started to speed up."

In a new investigative report published at the Mail on Sunday, a reporter discovered that women in Mauritius who were hired to make shirts that read "This is what a feminist looks like" have been paid roughly a dollar an hour to do so and sleep in dormitories that house 16 women at a time.

Order in the Washington County Justice Court? No. Bats!

A Philadelphia father and daughter pair were caught on a surveillance camera beating a man with a baseball bat and then firing at him with a gun as he ran away one night last week. The 62-year-old father and 36-year-old daughter allegedly yelled, "You know what you did!" before the attack.

Frequent Marilyn Manson collaborator Johnny Depp joined the paint-face rocker on stage at the Roxy in Los Angeles this Halloween, where he shredded on guitar and kept his sunglasses on. Ninja from Die Antwoord was also there, and the whole thing was very strange.

A British-Iranian woman who attempted to watch a volleyball game at Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Iran and was arrested on site in June has now been sentenced to a year in jail, though no official reason was given for her conviction.

Police and government officers report a suicide bomber detonated explosives in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, near the country's border with India. At least 54 were killed.

Praise all powers that work for good and against evil in this world: pop queen and Instagram goddess Robyn Rihanna "Badgalriri" Fenty has made her way back onto the platform she was made for with her first post back tagged #badgalback. Bad gal is back.

Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany, both of Kenya, were the male and female winners at the New York City Marathon today, clocking in at 2h10m55s and 2h25m7s respectively. Better luck next year to everyone else who is not superhumanly fast.

Chris Rock hosted Saturday Night Live last night (with musical guest Prince!) and caused a bit of a Twitter stir with his opening monologue, which didn't include even one song. Uh, this is Saturday Night Live, Chris Rock. Ya gotta sing something in your monologue!

On October 30, pianist Dejan Lazic sent the Washington Post a troubling request to remove a sort-of-bad review from 2010, citing the European Union search engine-censoring ruling that says individuals have the "right to be forgotten."

Author and director Lena Dunham took to Twitter today to call the claims that she'd "sexually abus[ed]" her little sister—made most prominently in article called "Lena Dunham Describes Sexually Abusing Her Little Sister," which appeared on the right-wing news website TruthRevolt—"fucking upsetting and disgusting."

Furious 7, the seventh movie in the near-perfect Fast and Furious film franchise, premiered today at a worldwide streamable event appropriately titled "The Road to Furious 7," featuring interviews and goofing off from the movie's cast members who are all best friends and family, forever and ever.

Though Halloween has come and gone, the spookiness of everyday life (in this case, the everyday life of an Australian surfer) persists.

On yesterday's episode of Jimmy Fallon's variety grabbag talkgab television whirlwind, Kevin Spacey came on to play a round of Wheel of Impressions with the former SNL walking laugh track. In his mastery of a number of celebrity impressions, it seemed like Spacey wasn't just playing a game—he became those guys. Listen to how good he does it.

Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin ended their four-months-long romance earlier this week, but Page Six reports Jennifer Lawrence was seen arriving at Martin's house just last night. Ooooooh.