[Australia's Danielle Prince performs her "ribbon routine" during the rhythmic gymnastics team final and individual all-around qualification during the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Photo via AP.]

Fred Keller and Judy Foster of Wasilla, Alaska converted their 1976 Mazda pickup truck into a giant Radio Flyer wagon. It took 11 months to build. Keller says, "you kind of get the sensation of driving a sports car." [AP, video]

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei carpeted the Turbine Hall in Britain's prestigious Tate Gallery with a sunflower seeds. Well, not quite: With painted porcelain replica sunflower seeds. One hundred million painted porcelain replica sunflower seeds. It's like Twitter, Ai says.

The first gay pride parade in Belgrade, Serbia since 2001 was the site of violent clashes between police and anti-gay protestors, who set fire to a building and reportedly chanted "death to homosexuals" and "the hunt has begun."

Liu Xia, wife of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, told her husband of his award, and he cried and said, "This is for the martyrs of Tiananmen Square." Shortly after leaving, Liu Xia was detained.

North Korea's next leader, Kim Jong-un, appeared on live television today with his dad, Kim Jong-il at a lavish military parade in Pyongyang that observers say is the largest ever there. Tanks! Missiles! Dancers! Dictators! Sounds like a great party.

A 50-foot sinkhole opened up on the street in Hoboken, NJ yesterday afternoon. According to Gothamist, no one was injured. Well, there's finally a reason to visit Hoboken, NJ! [Image via AP]

A drill has reached the 33 trapped Chilean miners—stuck underground since the August 5 collapse—and they could be rescued within this weekend. A NASA advisor said, "The Chileans are really writing the book on this kind of rescue."

The Way We Live Now: getting more by doing less. Having realized we don't need to sell all things to all people, we find the elusive "profit." Have a raisin. Have a flight. Have a junk bond. But just one.

The unemployment rate held steady at 9.6% last month, while the economy added 64,000 private sector jobs and cut 160,000 public sector jobs. This was "far worse" than economists had been predicting, but it sounds about right.

Prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for "inciting the subversion of state power," was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for his work toward nonviolent political change in China. [NYT]

You've probably been wondering where super hot Russian spy Anna Chapman has been, right? Well, she was spotted today at a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the launch of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which is carrying Russians and Americans into space.

Arianna Huffington's web venture is finally in the black. It only took five years, thousands of volunteer bloggers and the most clever search engine optimization that money can buy.

[Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa gets out of a cab in New York today after being named the recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in literature. Image via AP]

The red toxic sludge that has overtaken entire towns and killed people in Hungary today reached the Danube, Europe's second-longest river. But don't worry, Hungarian officials say the highly toxic alumina spill is no longer a threat to the environment.

Feral hogs in Texas are screwed. The heavily armed state within a state has declared October "Hog Out Month," and is encouraging people to kill the beasts for destroying farmland, as well as "yards, public parks and golf courses."

[Two BASE jumpers leap from the Kuala Lumpur Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for some reason. That's 1,400 feet in the air. I can't even look at this photo without covering my eyes. Photo via AP.]

[Excavators working on the broken dyke that unleashed a flood of toxic sludge look like they're on the surface of Mars. They're actually in Hungary. Image via AP]

[The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was lit up in pink on Tuesday to raise awareness of the Pink Panther movies. No, wait, breast cancer. To raise awareness of breast cancer. Pic via AP.]

[The Alexander McQueen spring-summer 2011 ready to wear collection, designed by Sarah Burton, reportedly drew standing ovations in Paris. The model's hair is all, like, woven, by the way. Kooky! Pic via AP.]