Paralympian Cameron Leslie talks to Laura about his new prosthetic legs and his road to Rio.

Source: ABC News. The original May 2014 opening date for the ride was pushed back after early tests showed rafts carrying sandbags flying off the slide, prompting engineers to tear down half of the ride and reconfigure some angles. Two media sneak preview days in 2014 were also canceled because of problems with a conveyor system that hauls the 100-pound rafts to the top of the slide.

Source: Facebook/CC.OO. Ryanair & Lesma Handling. This is the shocking moment a Ryanair passenger ran across the tarmac at Madrid airport in an attempt to catch his flight - and made it on board. The man, who looks to have missed boarding, speeds past planes on the runway carrying two pieces of hand luggage in a desperate attempt to catch up.

A man is trying to scale the all-glass face of Trump Tower in New York City using suction cups. The climber has a backpack and appears to be using ropes and a harness to fasten himself to the side of the 58-storey Manhattan skyscraper. He was several stories up and still climbing.

A serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that went unsolved for years as the body count grew in a poor area of Los Angeles haunted by crack cocaine.

Mary Knowlton arrived at the Punta Gorda, Florida, police station yesterday to learn how to be a community steward. The 73-year-old was there as a student in the citizen police academy, a two-hour course intended to give an intimate look at what makes the department in the quaint Florida town work. These scenarios are usually safe, acted out with either fake or empty weapons. But when the officer's gun was fired, Knowlton - a mother, wife and career librarian - was hit with live ammunition.

Wildlife SOS team saved a 3 year old leopard from drowning in a 60ft well in an Indian village

The GOP nominee made his comment at a rally in North Carolina.

Source: CCTV A pitbull was shot dead by police officers in southwest China’s Guizhou Province on Thursday morning after biting more than 20 people. The dog rushed onto a downtown street and sunk its teeth into pedestrians over a two-hour period. The youngest victim was only eight years old, the oldest 75 years old.

Theft is rampant on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. One tourist filmed 27 robberies in one day - here's an edited view

Donald Trump has unleashed a series of nasty personal attacks against his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, mocking her appearance and questioning her mental health several times during a New Hampshire campaign rally and on social media. "She is a totally unhinged person. She's unbalanced. And all you have to do is watch her, see her, read about her," Trump said during a campaign rally in Windham, New Hampshire. "She will cause - if she wins, which hopefully she won't - the destruction of our country from within."

Car enthusiasts at a collector's show watched in horror as the driver of a Mercedes 380 SL reversed over a A$300,000 ($320,000) Ferrari 458 Speciale. Source: @novacarz

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New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard has quit as head of an independent UK inquiry into child sex abuse. The 67-year-old high court judge had faced criticism over the scale of her pay and benefits and also the amount of time she’d spent out of the UK.

President Barack Obama has a suggestion for Donald Trump and his claims that the election will be rigged: "Go out there and win the election." Obama said Trump's recent suggestions that this fall's election won't be fair are "ridiculous."

Sarah Gandy and Laura McGoldrick discuss the highs and lows of music over the week.

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PETA activists take a bubble bath for veganism on a prominent square in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the Olympics, calling on consumers to abandon meat and save water in a one of the world's largest meat-producing countries.

Norfolk Constabulary release shocking hit and run footage

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A woman in her 60s has died and five other people have been injured after a man with "significant mental health issues" allegedly "went on the rampage" with a knife in a possible terror-related attack in central London.

An SUV was swallowed up, and dozens of residents have been forced from their Albany apartment building after a broken water pipe caused the street in front of the building to collapse.

A city jail in Manila is struggling to manage its operations because of over population. The Quezon City Jail, one of the most overcrowded prisons in the Philippines has a capacity to house 200 prisoners but there are now 3,700 detained inmates, the conditions are getting worse as police wage an unprecedented war on crime.

Source: CCTV. The photographs alone are enough to make you break out in a cold sweat. China has just opened what could be the world's most terrifying skywalk so far - a 100m-long, 1.6m glass path strapped to the side of the Tianmen Mountain in Hunan province.

Christchurch Botanic Gardens have been transformed into a spectacular lights show. "Botanic D’Lights" is on until Sunday. Video from Chris Lynch.

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An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash landed at Dubai's main airport Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all flights at the Middle East's busiest airport. A firefighter died while responding to the blaze, but none of the passengers or crew on board were killed.

Short footage captured hundreds of people running for safety, knocking over tables and chairs in their rush to get away as they abandoned restaurant meals and brought traffic to a stop in the centre of the resort.

Watch NZ Herald Focus:An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board has crash landed in Dubai. Protests have marred the arrival of the Olympic torch in Rio de Janeiro just days ahead of the opening of the 2016 games.

Cell phone footage captured the Dubai-based airline Emirates bursting into flames after it crash-landed at Dubai's main airport Wednesday. Officials say there were 300 people aboard the jetliner, and all passengers and crew are safe