Fans of new smartphone game Pokémon Go take over Central Park to catch hidden creatures

Poké-mania has taken over the city, the nation — and, perhaps soon, planet Earth!

Obsessed fans of the new smartphone game Pokémon Go are flooding city landmarks by the dozens, chasing and catching the virtual creatures hidden throughout Central Park, Union Square Park and other spaces.

The wildly popular free “augmented-reality” game requires fans to move around in real life using their phones’ cameras and GPS to hunt for Pokémon that appear on their screens. The game encourages players to interact and explore their surroundings. It has also caused Nintendo’s stock to surge — 25% percent on Monday.

Near E. 66th St. in Central Park, teenagers from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens walked around in groups, hunting for the creatures that tended to lurk near statues of the author Walter Scott, the legendary sled dog Balto and a memorial to the 107th Infantry in World War I.

POKEMON GO After Robberies ... PLAYERS URGED TO USE BUDDY SYSTEM

BREAKING NEWS

Pokemon Go creators want players to catch 'em all, but to avoid getting jacked while you're doing it ... they're warning you not to play on your own. 

Alleged robbers in Missouri used the GPS location features on the game to lure in unsuspecting gamers -- then pulled guns on them, according to cops. Four suspects were arrested. 

The Pokemon Company International and Niantic, Inc tells TMZ it's aware of the incidents while playing the game, and encourage all people playing to "be aware of their surroundings and to play with friends when going to new or unfamiliar places."

For the uninitiated ... Pokemon Go is a mobile app that uses GPS location to encourage players to walk around their immediate surroundings and collect digital creatures.

BTW, in just a few days ... Pokemon Go has added over $7 billion in market value to Nintendo.

Teresa May is a glamour model who appeared in Smack My Bitch Up - not the new Prime Minister

Teresa and Theresa May - know the difference

Theresa May will be our new Prime Minister - but not everyone has figured out how to spell her name just yet.

Teresa May has been trending on Twitter since Andrea Leadsom announced she was quitting the Tory leadership battle.

#Leadsom, Gove and Eagle have all made it onto Twitter's trending list, as the volumes of tweets about Mrs Leadsom's resignation statement, Michael Gove's backing of Mrs May and Angela Eagle officially launching her Labour leadership bid circulated.

But there is no sign of Theresa May spelled with an "h", the woman who will take over from David Cameron imminently and is the daughter of a vicar.

Instead a very different woman is trending - Teresa May: glamour model, soft porn actress and veteran of the Prodigy's video for Smack My Bitch Up.

Prolific thief who bragged he made £1,000-a-week shoplifting is jailed

One of the UK's most prolific thieves has been jailed after bragging that he makes a £1,000-a-WEEK shoplifting .

Shameless Jamie Forbes, 38, added six further offences to his previous list of 296 crimes - admitting burglary, shop theft and breaches of previous court orders.

Grimsby Crown Court heard that after being stopped by a security guard at an Asda he boasted: "I can get a grand a week out of you lot."

Sentencing Forbes to 21 months in jail, Recorder Simon Jackson QC said: "You are one of the most persistent offenders that has appeared recently at this court."

Prosecutor Claire Holmes told the court how Forbes went into the Asda superstore in Holles Street, Grimsby, on May 21, breaching a previous antisocial behaviour order imposed in 2014 for three years.

Mother jumps on car bonnet as thief drives off with her kids inside

A man who stole a car in San Bernardino, Calif., late Sunday night with two small children in the back seat was followed and ultimately arrested because of the vigilance of three good Samaritans, police said.
San Bernardino police Lt. Rich Lawhead said, at around 11:30pm late Sunday night, a mother who had her 2 young children strapped in their car seats in the back of the vehicle, ran into a convenience store to buy them some drinks. The woman left her car running, the air conditioner on and parked directly in front of the market window so she could see the car from inside the store.

Unknown to her, a local transient, 21 year old Steven Young, was watching her from outside. As soon as the mother took her eyes off the car for a minute, Young jumped into the vehicle and began to reverse the car. The mother who was leaving the store just as the gray sedan was backing up, jumped on the bonnet of the car to try and stop the driver from fleeing with her children in it.

Young allegedly swerved left and right until the mother was shaken off, then he sped off with the car with the children in it, police said.

UK's biggest ever haul of class A drugs as £512m of cocaine found in North Sea boat

The massive haul of drugs being removed from the tugboat

Three tonnes of cocaine worth £512million, the UK’s biggest class A drugs haul , were found on a boat seized in the North Sea.

The captain and first officer of tugboat MV Hamal were yesterday found guilty of drug trafficking.

It had left Turkey for Guyana in South America where drugs were loaded.

In April 2015, after a tip by French authorities, Royal Navy and Border Force vessels boarded the Hamal 100 miles off Aberdeen.

In port it took three days to find all the drugs.

The owner of the convenience store where Alton Sterling was killed is suing the police

The convenience-store owner who witnessed the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling last week is alleging in a lawsuit that Baton Rouge police officers illegally took surveillance footage from his store.

Abdullah Muflahi, who owns the Triple S Food Mart where Sterling was shot, alleges that police also confiscated his cellphone and detained him in a police car for four hours, according to The Daily Beast.

Muflahi claims in the lawsuit that, after the shooting, officers Howie Lake and Blane Salamoni had two other police officers remove the "entire store security system" despite Muflahi's demands to see a search warrant.