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With a heavy, saddened heart you might remember Diesel: the police dog who heroically sacrificed life and limb in the raid that amounted to the apprehension of seven terrorists suspected as responsible for the horrific Paris attacks.

The seven-year-old Diesel took heavy fire, and went down after taking several shots from a female suicide bomber, after scouting the apartment to ensure the quarters was secured.

The world hasn't forgotten Diesel's bravery. She's set to be posthumously awarded by the British veterinary charity, the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals; and also to receive the Dickin Medal. This medal's the animal equivalent to the Victoria Cross, which is Britain's 'highest military awarded for valor in the face of the enemy.'

We hope Diesel's resting in peace up above with an endless procession of doggy treats amidst unparalleled belly rubs in between highly enjoyable bouts of fetch. She was a hero, and she won't be forgotten.

Someone has got some explaining to do.

A giant U.S. surveillance blimp came untethered today around noon and is now floating 16,000 feet over Pennsylvania. Oh, and two F-16s have been deployed to monitor the situation.

JLENS blimp has broken free of its tether and is now over Pennsylvania at 16,000 feet. Two fighter jets are monitoring: NORAD spokesman

— Matthew Hay Brown (@matthewhaybrown) October 28, 2015

The blimp is part of the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Netted Sensor System (JLENS), a radar system used to pick up aerial threats.

But now it has become a threat itself to the good people of Pennsylvania, who are being advised to call 911 if they spot the monstrosity.

And because people on the Internet are horrible, they made some dumb jokes about the blimp.

should've seen it coming when the blimp befriended a young boy pic.twitter.com/fYgRW4BZDC

— Daric Snyder (@daricsnyder) October 28, 2015

Pennsylvanians if you see this blimp floating above you don't worry it's just unmoored and will be shot down soon pic.twitter.com/ghrZby3vPF

— el Sooper ن (@SooperMexican) October 28, 2015

Exclusive image of NORAD fighters intercepting loose JLENS blimp #blimpontheloose pic.twitter.com/CzuYi1L2vw

— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) October 28, 2015

"They're never gonna let me near that blimp again." pic.twitter.com/3Y1qHwwDx4

— Matthew (@Matthops82) October 28, 2015

Blimp 2K15, where are you?

It's official. Ronda Rousey can't get any more lovable.

The UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion, Pokémon expert and all around badass just accepted a marine's invitation to attend the Marine Ball in December.

Lance Corporal Jarrod Haschert asked the fighter out last week in a video plea that has been viewed nearly five million times on Facebook.

"Yeah, I'll totally go," Rousey told TMZ , as she was cornered in a Whole Foods parking lot. "He needs to find dates for my girls and then we'll all go."

Your move, Haschert.

In other Ronda Rousey news, she made eating Carl's Jr. look like an Olympic sport.

StoryCorp has been conducting interviews with thousands of people since 2003, collecting oral histories that they later animate. Today, they bring us three stories from veterans in honor of Veteran's Day. See them here, but be sure to pack some tissues. And a warning for language and adult content in some of these.

And the Eagle of Freedom perched itself atop the shoulder of the Lincoln Memorial and uttered, "smdh."

There are no words, really. Just Watch "Peewee" here put all of us to shame with his 90-year-old badassery:

The driver of a BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicle showed off his skills when he gunned his motor and carved up a couple of donuts in the streets of Slavyansk.

Retired U.S. Air Force Major Gary Foust recounts an incredible story about a flight training mission in 1970 that suddenly turned into a Mayday scenario, but everything went better than expected after the aircraft miraculously landed itself without a pilot on a cornfield near Big Sandy, Montana.

Funny British reviewer Ashens cracks open a can of 45-year-old U.S. military candy ration and finds unpleasantness.

The Chinese navy's first successful landing on its recently unveiled aircraft carrier Liaoning (shown left, top) has spawned a photo fad known as "shootering," which emulates the military hand gesture used by flight deck officers to signal the release of fighter jets onboard.

Photo credit: Xinhua / 竣泓苗 (via YouTube)

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A child in bunny costume playing peekaboo(?) with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Soldiers.

CORRECTION (11/26): The photograph was misidentified as having been taken in Gaza and thereby implied that the boy is Palestinian. The photograph was actually taken in the West Bank city of Hebron by photojournalist Ziv Koren of an Israeli boy dressed up as a bunny during the Jewish holiday of Purim in 2003.

Meanwhile in (X) of the Day is a feature series bringing you the latest buzz from all over the continents with a special focus on non-English speaking parts of the world.

If you've been following the news coverage of the Israeli Defense Forces' Operation "Pillar of Cloud" in Gaza, you probably heard about something called "Iron Dome," as seen in this recently uploaded video that's been making the rounds in the news. Iron Dome is the Israeli military's mobile air defense system designed to track, intercept and destroy short-range rockets or artillery shells launched from distances as far as 43 miles away (shown left). Since the beginning of the hostile exchange two days ago, the system has managed to shoot down at least 184 rockets out of nearly 500 that had been fired into Israeli territories, which isn't the highest performance record in its service history, but still, not too shabby.

Dronestagram is a single topic blog curating various surveillance images taken by the. U.S. spy planes that are processed in Instagram filters, accompanied by a brief description to tell the story behind each shot.