People raise their hands during the funeral of victims killed from Sunday evening's car bombing that killed dozens of people in Karachi, Pakistan. Picture: AP Source: AP
THERE'S only a slim chance that you're the world's richest person but the news overnight also showed that does not mean you have the worst lot in life.
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim was once again named by Forbes magazine as the world's richest person with an estimated wealth of more than $70 billion.
But fortune, and misfortune, are not always measured in dollars.
Orthodox Jewish mourners gather outside the Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar synagogue in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighbourhood for the funeral of two expectant parents who were killed in a car accident. Picture: AP Source: AP
The heartbreaking story of the child who was orphaned in a car crash before he was born became even sadder with news the baby had died on only his second day of life. And in Japan a father froze to death sheltering his nine-year-old daughter from severe blizzards, while 42 Syrian soldiers were killed in Iraq, dozens are feared dead in a plane crash in the Congo and mourners held funerals for 48 people killed in a Pakistan bombing.
Even the Queen, who has quite a Treasury at her disposal, is thankful for her health after being released from hospital.
At times like these it may seem the world needs a hero, and one may have stepped forward in the shape of a man in a Batman costume who rounded up a suspect and handed him over to police in the UK.
A 27-year-old man was brought into Trafalgar House Police Station in Bradford by someone who looked like Batman. Picture: West Yorkshire Police Source:
Elsewhere, a plague of locusts has hit Egypt, there are a record 259 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize, female mountain climbers are breaking through the world's highest glass ceiling, a fake bishop tried to sneak into the Vatican, Berlin real estate developers have postponed their plan to tear down that wall, people are digging up corpses in China for "ghost marriages" and now even dogs are firing guns in the US.
Meanwhile, more than 3000 apes are being stolen every year, but zookeepers are doing the grunt work for a baby gorilla at a US zoo.
This photo provided by the Cincinnati Zoo on Friday, March 1, 2013, shows Ron Evans, Primate Center Team Leader at the zoo in Cincinnati, laying with a baby gorilla named Gladys the way a mother Western Lowland Gorilla would with her young. The baby gorilla was born Jan. 29 at a Texas zoo to a first-time mother who wouldn't care for her. Zoo workers and volunteers are acting as surrogate mothers to prepare the baby to be introduced to two female gorillas at the Cincinnati Zoo who might accept her. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Zoo/David Jenike) Source: AP
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the filming of Mad Max: Fury Road has driven some people to anger, Justin Bieber has denied he tried to party with 14-year-olds at a club, Anne Hathaway's conman ex is not enjoying as much success as her, Heidi Klum has sealed a deal her own talent show gig, David Copperfield almost disappeared in mid-air and Brendan Fraser is spending more money than he makes.
In sport, Aussie Super League halfback Brett Seymour has been injured in a UK car crash, Cristiano Ronaldo will be welcomed back at Old Trafford, Maradona dreams of having a hand in coaching Barcelona and Michael Jordan says his denial of a paternity suit is a slam dunk case.
When Diego Maradona closes his eyes at night he dreams of coaching Barcelona. Picture: AP Source: AP
And if, despite what you've just read, you still think it would be nice to be one of the world's richest people, here's some investment advice from Warren Buffett.
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