Gordon Ramsay gets cooking at new Tuscan hotel
“Be careful of the wild boar.” This sage advice came from the Italian man driving me from Rome’s airport to the new Castel Monastero hotel in rural Tuscany, where wild boar are known to roam the rolling hills. Weighing as much as 300 pounds, a wild boar’s razor-sharp tusks can slice and dice like a $19.99 infomercial knife set. Even so, a wild boar didn’t seem as intimidating as the person I was about to meet: chef Gordon Ramsay.

Chicago cop/Army Master Sgt. called 'a miracle guy'
When the mortar rounds started exploding around him, Master Sgt. Pedro Medina scrambled for cover. "I needed to get to a solid structure, fast," Medina said. He ran to a building on his military base in mountainous southeastern Afghanistan. But the building proved to be anything but solid. A Chinook helicopter was taking off to escape the attack, and a violent downdraft from the rotors collapsed the building. An iron I-beam landed on Medina.