THE opening pages of Conquerors are brimming with eye-popping facts, images and incidents.

ENGLAND: Birmingham has been crowned the funniest city in the UK, according to a study.

USA: A five-year-old boy in New Jersey has picked up the lunch bill for his local police department.

It was in early morning darkness that officers scrambled to sort out the chaos at an Albuquerque apartment complex where a couple had reportedly been attacked, the woman bleeding from a head injury and the man sporting a black eye and wearing blood-stained shorts.

The Justice Department and Baltimore Police have agreed to negotiate reforms after a report criticised officers for using excessive force and routinely discriminating against black people.

A woman has died after collapsing while hiking and mountain biking during a record-breaking heatwave in Phoenix.

You think at least one person would recognize them when they boarded the LA Hollywood bus tour? even through their disguises?

ENGLAND: Football fans and pet lovers were among the motorists who spent £2m (€2.76m) on the latest personalised number plates within 24 hours of them going on sale.

USA: A police officer has been fired after being filmed singing a song titled ‘Let The Killing Begin’ with a death metal band — while on duty and in uniform.

The new UFC bantamweight champion of the world, Holly Holm is set to be honoured by her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico for her victory over Ronda Rousey. 

USA: Pennsylvania state police say they’ve arrested a woman for two different drink-driving crashes in the same day.

A man has confessed to shooting dead a four-year-old girl while arguing with her father in the US city of Albuquerque.

RUSSIA: He’s flown with cranes, petted a polar bear, and tranquilised a tiger. Now Vladimir Putin is ready to face the Downward Dog.

GERMANY: A pensioner has started digging in Germany’s western Ruhr region for the Amber Room, a priceless work of art looted by Nazis from the Soviet Union during World War Two and missing for 70 years, but says he needs a new drill to help him.

ENGLAND: A primary school head teacher has apologised for pupils’ nightmares after clips from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ were shown in class.

A three-year-old boy in the US got hold of a handgun from his mother’s bag and fired a shot that injured both his parents.

Two pilots in a helium-filled balloon have landed safely off the coast of Mexico after a nearly 7,000-mile long trip across the Pacific Ocean.

ENGLAND: A master blender is to have his tastebuds insured by a leading tea company for £1m (€1.26m).

Phileas Fogg, eat your heart out.

SING TO STOP SPEED

Google Maps has released a collection of Street View tours to real-life sets from nominated TV shows, including Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, and Breaking Bad.

Britain: A pair of off-duty police officers who made an arrest while dressed as a zebra and a monkey have been commended for their bravery.

Three teenagers accused of fatally beating two homeless men beyond recognition with cinder blocks, bricks and a metal fence pole may have been terrorising transients around Albuquerque for months, police said.

INMATE HID IN LAUNDRY BASKET TO ESCAPE

Gary Oldman did Bowie video for a sandwich

Fowl play creeps out cemetery owner

But what if it had all been a dream?

Backed by near-unanimous critical praise, incessant social media conversation and intense coverage on every form of talk show, Breaking Bad soared to its highest ratings ever — and also created a record 500,00 illegal downloads — in its finale Sunday night on AMC.

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As Breaking Bad enters the home stretch, we look back at where it all began - the auditions.

Thanks to the folks in charge of signs in Albuquerque, now you know.

The Justin Bieber murder plot phone call has been released.

Five people found gunned down in a house in New Mexico were identified today as a fire brigade chaplain, his wife, and three of their children.

Ciarán O’Liornad’s indoor season has been an extension of last year’s outdoor form which resulted in a fine performance in the 1500 meters Final at the World Outdoor Championships in Daegu.

Ciáran Ó Lionáird got his Olympic year off to a sensational start at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on Saturday night when he won a drama-packed men’s mile in a new pb of 3:56.01.

Ciarán Ó Lionaird hopes to get Olympic year off to a flying start at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on Saturday.

Tom Hiddleston plans to direct his own movies.

Pope Benedict XVI named a married former Episcopal bishop to head the first US organisational structure for disaffected Anglicans and Episcopalians who want to join the Catholic Church.

The US government sent a plane equipped with radiation monitors over the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory as a 110-square-mile wildfire burned at its doorstep, putting thousands of scientific experiments on hold for days.

Parking attendants ticketed a car parked on a university campus three times without noticing a dead woman slumped in the front seat.