Flour power nearly brought an Englewood, NJ, neighborhood to a screeching halt yesterday.

Cars and buildings suddenly were covered in a white powder that mysteriously drifted down from the sky.

Before hopeful local stoners could converge on the scene, officials announced it was only flour that spewed out of an Italian bakery when a pipe malfunctioned.

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Both of them were trying to catch their dinners.

Jason Kresse of Freeport, Texas, had been fishing for red snapper when a 350-pound shark suddenly jumped into his boat.

The big fish died and no one aboard the boat was hurt.

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OMG!

A generous churchgoer in Baltimore dropped an unusual donation in the collection plate — a winning $30,000 lottery ticket.

There was no question that whoever left it knew what it was worth — the numbers had already been scratched off.

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This blind date was hugely successful — but not in a way anyone expected.

Sarah Kemp of Scotland and George Brent of London met on a dating Web site and began corresponding.

When they finally got together, the two would-be lovers realized they were actually siblings who hadn’t seen each other since their parents divorced in 1975.

“We obviously had more in common than first thought,” Kemp deadpanned.

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You’ll eventually find happiness — if you can just hang on long enough.

A study by scientists at University College London reached a conclusion that defies conventional wisdom: People get happier as they get older.

It found that a person’s happiness starts to increase after middle age, until reaching a peak at 85.