The hostage-taking at the Credit Foncier de France, a state-supported mortgage lender, was the first and most improbable of these dramas.
Photo: In one of the Kentucky Derby's most improbable outcomes, the 50-1 shot Giacomo, fourth from left, with Mike Smith aboard in green silks, finished first.
First, Hertha, the most improbable high-flyers since the Hindenburg, were held to a 1-1 drawayway to Bielefeld on Friday night.
Kerber is a set away from what would almost undoubtedly be the most improbable U.S. Open final run in history, taking the second set 6-2 over Stosur.
Some of its strangest, most improbable gestures — trumpets leaning on a piercingly dissonant minor-ninth interval, for example — come straight out of the manuscript.
For a few delusional seconds my thoughts turn to the most improbable scenarios involving me and the Woman in the Meadow.
Matt Derbyshire and Benni McCarthy scored twice in quick succession and, briefly, the anger of their supporters made way for hope that the Premier League's second-from-bottom team could complete the most improbable comeback.
The third place Obama could teach is perhaps the most improbable, but the one I hope he most strongly considers.
Ohio State capped one of the most improbable runs in recent history when it defeated Oregon, 42-20, to win the first College Football Playoff championship.
In the most improbable location – a baseball arena in tornado alley, USA – I had finally found my first professional football home.
