The Week's Most Extreme Stories

This week's superlative stories, as voted by you

By Newser Editors

Posted Nov 2, 2012 5:00 PM CDT
Updated Nov 4, 2012 7:57 PM CST

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The Week's Most Extreme Stories — In this photo provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a silver Jeep Cherokee that suspected smugglers were attempting to drive over the U.S.-Mexico border fence is stuck. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

It's the weekend—time to kick back, relax, and look back on the week that was. As voted by you, our readers, here are the stories that came out on top during the past week:

Most Hilarious: Attempt to Scale Border Fence Goes Poorly
Most Brilliant: Ethiopian Kids Get Tablets, Start Teaching Themselves
Most Scary: Hundreds Evacuated From NYC Hospital
Most Depressing: NYU Loses Years of Cancer Research in Storm
Most Intriguing: Martian Soil Is a Lot Like ... Hawaii's?
Most Annoying: This Week in Insanely Pricey Celeb Purchases...

Click any of the above to see what you may have missed—or to relive the moment—or check out picks from previous weeks here.

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