World News Instant Index 10/10/2012 From the cute and cuddly to the unconventional and awe-inspiring, here's a look at the photos, videos and stories that have our newsroom talking today. 11:16 a.m. ET Eagle Takes Crocodile Airborne African fish eagles don't usually hunt crocodiles, but this one clearly made an exception when it went after a juvenile Nile crocodile on the banks of a river inside the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. Image credit: Mark Sheridan-Johnson/Barcroft Media/Landov 11:01 a.m. ET Actor and NFL Lineman Alex Karras Dead at 77 Alex Karras, the former NFL lineman who appeared in the sitcom "Webster" and the classic comedy "Blazing Saddles," has died at the age of 77. Karras suffered from dementia and was one of more than 3,500 NFL players suing the league over the way it dealt with head injuries. 10:30 a.m. ET Singer in Space This morning it was announced that singer Sarah Brightman, of "Phantom of the Opera" fame, would be the next space tourist. She is expected to blast off on a Russian Soyuz rocket in 2015 . The last space tourist paid $35 million in 2009. Brightman reportedly doled out more than $50 million for the experience. Image Credit: Andrey Smirnov/AFP/Getty Images ET I Am the Walrus He's 234 pounds, 15 weeks old and one of the luckiest, not to mention cutest, walruses around. Mitik, Mit for short, was orphaned in Alaskan waters and nursed back to health by the staff at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska. Now he is making his way to the Big Apple to join walruses Nuka and Kulu at the New York Aquarium. According to The New York Times, Mit will not meet his new exhibit mates for at least a few months as he's weaned off nursing.