A herd of African elephants instinctively formed an "alert circle" to protect the younger elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park as a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday.

A brute bashed a Bronx MTA conductor in the face with a metal scooter in an early Tuesday ... was still on board the No. 5 train just after midnight as the 46-year-old operator tried to clear ...