Top Videos: Fiery asteroid, Influencer-eating shark and shopping centre carnage
Onlookers were amazed by a rare light show over Siberia this week as small asteroid closed in on its collision course with Earth.
The European Space Agency issued an alert for the 70-centimetre asteroid on Wednesday, saying the object would be visible as fireball in the sky but that “the impact will be harmless”.
Temporarily named C0WEPC5, the piece of rock is just Earth’s fourth detected asteroid strike of the year and just the 11th of all time.
Influencer-eating shark
Diving with sharks is a major attraction for visitors to the Maldives and two videos showed why the memories aren’t always ones to be cherished.
Travel photographer and influencer Lilian Tagliari managed to film her close encounter while diving among dozens of grey nurse sharks.
Tagliari ventured a little too close and received a nibble to her calf, which she referred to as her ” first kiss from a shark”.
The grey nurse is mostly harmless to humans and Tagliari escaped with just a nibble to her calf.
“It was just a weird little accident that left me some cute scars,” she posted in Instagram.
Possibly less cute and definitely more scary was the encounter this unidentified Chinese tourist had with a tiger shark, also in the Maldives.
The footage shows as a shark sneaks up behind the diver, grabs him by the head and shakes him at a dive site on the island of Hulhumale, by the capital Male.
The diver miraculously escaped the meeting, although not without a serious wound.
Shopping centre carnage
Wild CCTV has captured brazen thieves leaving a trail of destruction and stealing a safe after ramming a Melbourne shopping centre in a stolen SUV.
Victoria Police released the footage of this week as they hunt for two men involved in the early-morning raid at Forest Hill Chase shopping centre last Saturday.
The stolen vehicle can be seen smashing through the front door of the centre about 5am, damaging several stores before destroying a kiosk and making off with a safe.
Real winter sports
Australia has its winter sports, but NFL champions the Buffalo Bills gave local football fans a lesson is the true meaning of defy the elements this week.
After heavy vehicles were called in to clear the snow and ice from their home Highmark Stadium in New York state, the Bills played through near-constant snow in their 35-10 win over the San Francisco 49ers.
And how did they celebrate? With a snowball fight and some snow angel making of course.
Fiery rescue
Also in the US, bodycam footage released this week shows the dramatic rescue of two children trapped as their home burned.
The video shows Arapahoe County deputies desperately breaking into the backyard fence to make way for the children, before helping a girl and a boy make it safely to the street.
The children’s parents were not home at the time.
Deputies, Ryan McConnell and Chris Calderon, have been praised for their “bravery in the face of danger”
Pandamonium
One animal that is definitely in the cute category is the panda, and Hong Kong will this week be overrun by tributes to the black and white bear.
Thousands of statues of giant panda sculptures will be installed around Hong Kong from Saturday as the Chinese-admistered territory continues to celebrate the birth of two cubs at a local theme park.
