Last Friday night, a bruised and battered dog suddenly showed up on the front porch of an unassuming house in north Nashville.

Two window washers are currently trapped on a scaffolding that broke near the very top of New York City's 46-story Hearst Tower. The New York Fire Department is in the middle of attempting to rescue the washers before the scaffolding fails further, having already slightly collapsed at its center.

The owner of the illegally-constructed building that collapsed earlier this week and killed 377 people (with that number sure to rise) was arrested Sunday as he attempted to flee the country. Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested by an Bangladeshi commando force at a border crossing in western Bangladesh. He was brought by…

It's unclear how or why Tonik the eerily humanoid poodle/Shih Tzu mix ended up in a kill shelter in Kentucky, but the good news is that he is no longer there.

This healthy male American Bulldog mix is scheduled to be put down later today at the Rabies Control shelter in Jackson, Tennesee.

After being alerted by a reporter for WABC's Eyewitness News to the peril of a shivering pooch that had apparently been stranded outside by its owner on a bitterly cold night in Newark, Mayor Cory Booker responded by heading out into the cold to personally rescue the chilly dog from certain doom.

A woman living an urban reenactment of 127 Hours after getting herself lodged in a one-foot gap between two building in downtown Portland was happily rescued before — spoiler alert! — having to gnaw off her own arm.

Here's a short but sweet palate-cleansing story: lost hiker Margaret Page was stranded for three and a half weeks in a New Mexico forest. In order to stay alive, she cuddled with her cat Miya in her sleeping bag — both were able to brave below-freezing temperatures.

What do you do if you see a man fall onto some tracks moments before a speeding train passes them by? If you're this rookie cop in Madrid, you jump down from the platform and pull him away! Watch inside.

This is the story that's setting the internet aflame today! Lovable old actor Dick Van Dyke fell asleep on a surfboard and floated out to sea. But then some kindly porpoises pushed him back toward shore. Miracles every day, folks.

Bells are ringing in Chile: Florencio Avalos (pictured), one of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for months, just became the first to be successfully rescued. He looks pretty good, for a guy who was trapped in cave!

Prince William performed his first mission as a Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter pilot today, airlifting a man having a heart attack from a gas rig off the northern coast of England. What, there was no shining armor?