Blog Posts by Katie Kindelan

The keys to the historic Tower of London were stolen last week, British authorities announced today. This matters to Britons. The castle has played a critical role in the nation's history and houses the queen's Crown Jewels.

Police are now investigating how, exactly, a burglar broke into the well-guarded castle last Tuesday and managed to steal several keys from the site's sentry box before being apprehended.

(Credit: David Bank/Getty Images)The burglar was reportedly spotted by the Tower's famous guards, known as Beefeaters, but the guards did not immediately stop the suspect, instead staying at their designated posts and radioing for help.

Without a chase, the burglar made off with keys to the Tower's drawbridges and conference rooms and a restaurant, according to Historic Royal Palaces, the non-profit organization that operates it. The Tower is one of the world's major tourist attractions, with more than two million visitors each year.

The burglar, who struck in the early morning hours, managed to make

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She's Hollywood's new 'It' girl who, at age 21, nabbed the coveted lead heroine role in this year's blockbuster "Hunger Games," but Jennifer Lawrence says that doesn't mean she fits into the typical Hollywood mold.

"In Hollywood, I'm obese," Lawrence, now 22, told Elle magazine in its December issue where she graces the cover in a skin-tight white dress under the headline, "From Indie Star to Hunger Games Bombshell."

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"I'm considered a fat actress," she says. "I'm Val Kilmer in that one picture on the beach."

To prepare for her career-making role as Katniss Everdeen, the movie's 16-year-old heroine who is forced to fight for her life, Lawrence underwent intense training, including learning how to run properly.

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"I'm pigeon-footed…so I decided to learn how to run with my feet straight and then they ended up

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(Credit: Ritz Carlton-Amelia Island)When the Elmo doll belonging to 5-year-old Ainsley Giorgio was lost and left behind at the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Amelia Island, Fla., during a family trip earlier this month, it likely thought its vacation was over.

Thanks to the work of canny and humorous resort employees, though, Elmo's vacation was just starting, and Ainsley would not go long without her beloved toy.

Just a few days, and one frantic phone call, after the family realized the Elmo doll that had been with Ainsley since she was a baby went missing, Elmo showed up at the family's Orlando home.

(Credit: Ritz Carlton-Amelia Island)Elmo didn't arrive alone, but with a leaflet book titled "Elmo at the Ritz" to show Ainsley all he had done at the resort after getting left behind "somewhere between the restaurant and the pool" last week, hotel spokesman Joe Murphy told ABCNews.com today.

"Hi Ainsley, just want to let you know that we found this little guy by the pool and thought you might recognize him," the resort's staff wrote to its former guest.

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Being sick in a hospital can be scary, especially when you're young and have an imagination that tends to run wild.

So imagine being in bed and dreaming of your favorite superheroes who fly up to your hospital room's window to keep you safe.

Now imagine waking up from the dream only to find a real-life Spiderman and Captain America at your real-life window outside your real-life hospital room.

(Photo Credit: Brandon Dill/The Commercial Appeal/AP)That's exactly what happened to the young patients at the Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., this month, thanks to the ingenious, and generous, idea of the men who have been washing the 255-bed hospital's windows for years.

"The kids always come up to the window and ask us, 'Are you Spiderman?'" Steve Oszaniec, a 23-year employee of the Chicago-based American National Skyline window cleaning company, told ABCNews.com today. "So I came up with the idea of, 'Why don't we just show up as Spiderman?'"

With the plan hatched, Oszaniec, son Danny Oszaniec and their

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(Photo Credit: CEN/Europics)In a world where everything seems to keep getting supersized, man's best friend keeps getting smaller.

First there was Beyonce, the tiny pup who fit in a tablespoon at her birth in March and at two weeks old was just the size of an iPhone.

Then there was Milly, the pint-sized Chihuahua from Puerto Rico who had to be fed with an eyedropper when she was born in January and stood just 3 inches tall at three months.

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Now meet Meysi, a tiny Terrier from Poland who weighed just 1.58 ounces at her birth three months ago.

Meysi's owner, Anna Pohl of Jarocin, Poland, told her local newspaper she didn't think her dog would make it and that it took all of Pohl's strength to keep Meysi going.

"The worst was the first six weeks," Pohl, who fed Mesyi with a syringe, told Gazeta Jarocinska, according to a translation. "[I got] zero sleep. I was feeding her day and night, every half hour. Sometimes I ran

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It's a prank that seems destined for YouTube greatness and one that seems appropriate for April Fool's Day.

A grid of IPS monitors are installed on the floor of an elevator to create an optical illusion that the elevator is plummeting to its demise as a hidden camera captures the reactions of riders who believe their end is near.

The prank is not the work of Internet amateurs, however, but a new ad campaign from the Netherlands branch of Seoul, Korea-based LG electronics to promote their new IPS monitors.

And the ad was launched just in time for the scariest of holidays, Halloween.

With the tagline, "So Real, It's Scary, the nearly two-minute YouTube video shows riders' reactions as the IPS monitors display what appears to be the bottom of the elevator floor dropping out beneath them.

A spokeswoman for LG Electronics in the Netherlands, where the ad was launched, told ABCNews.com the video has been viewed more than 3 million times.

"The film highlights the lifelike colors

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Britney Spears' well-publicized breakdown in which she shaved her head and accosted paparazzi with an umbrella was caused by drugs, according to an attorney for her former manager.

"She liked to use amphetamines, speed or uppers ... and most of the things that went wrong were related to that drug," attorney Joseph Schleimer said in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday where his client, Sam Lufti, is suing Spears, 30, and her family, according to the Associated Press.

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Lufti, 38, was once the pop superstar's manager and closest confidante, coming to her side in 2007 as her world began to unravel and, later, spurring one of Spears' most public meltdowns after an argument left her sitting barefoot on a curb outside her home, sobbing as surrounding paparazzi caught it all on tape.

Lufti, a sometime film producer, is now seeking a share of the multimillion-dollar fortune of Spears, who earlier this month was named by Forbes

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Halloween is less than two weeks away. Do you know what you'll be dressed as come that ghoulish night?

If you want to blend in with trick-or-treaters, dress as a superhero, the hottest trend this year, according to Halloween experts.

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If you want to stand out, you could try on a "Botched Jesus Fresco" costume for size, a cheeky reference to the headline-making attempt by one elderly Spanish woman to restore an 18th century piece of art.

Or, if you want to determine the winner of the presidential election, you could purchase a Mitt Romney or President Obama mask, both hot-sellers this year at major Halloween retailers, including one where the winner of the presidential Halloween costume race has also won the real presidential election for the past four presidential races.

"If you call us first week of November, we can tell you who is going to be president," Jason Sandlofer, a spokesman for Spirit Halloween Inc., a

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