The Toronto Zoo is home to a young polar bear who, earlier this year, took his first steps and played in the snow for the first time. But now the cute cub officially has a name, which the four-month-old revealed to the world earlier today.

Pope Francis is straight O.G.: Original Goth. Show him some mercy, and he'll grab the bling right off your dead carcass and wear it in a pouch next to his skin for all time. Really:

London firefighters blame a pigeon with a lit cigarette in its mouth for igniting a rooftop fire that evacuated an apartment building.

Santa Fe University of Art and Design boasts that it helps students to "develop their full artistic identities." Unless that artistic identity is not officially approved by the administration, in which case EVERYONE WILL BE PUNISHED. Especially if there are clits involved.

Good for him.

It's long been taken as a given that Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious "person or entity" who created Bitcoin, the world's best-known digital currency, is a pseudonym—probably for more than one person.

Today starts the three-day annual circus known as the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which Washington journalists scurry like wounded, hungry cooing doves in search of crazy bite from right-wing presidential hopefuls, and also Rick Perry. Gawker is there, too.

One of America's favorite foods (after partially hydrogenated soybean oil) is sugar, which is a poison to the human body. You will all be pained to hear that the World Health Organization has just halved the acceptable amount of sugar in your diet.

A man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly having sex with a pit bull in his front yard while his terrified neighbors yelled at him to stop.

Jet aborts takeoff after striking fish.

On Thursday, Crimea's parliament voted unanimously to join the Russian Federation and scheduled a referendum on the matter for March 16.

Is this how the world ends—not with a bang but with a Wintour?

The South Texas judge who was caught on camera beating his disabled teenage daughter with a belt because she illegally downloaded files online finally lost his job this week after a Republican challenger defeated him in his reelection campaign.

A wealthy businessman is suing a Vegas casino, saying that he was too blackout for blackjack.

The author of "How We Die" has died at age 83. Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, who wrote that "the dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives," passed away at home Monday. In his book, he said he would like to die peacefully, "surrounded by the people and the things I love."

Charlene Ellet made headlines last week after a shoplifting arrest turned into a possession-of-meth arrest which somehow culminated in her and her brother making out in jail. Now Ellet's back behind bars, this time for choking her husband (who is not her brother).

A 95-year-old WWII veteran just wanted to cheer on the runners who were passing by his house. But to his surprise, they were more interested in cheering for him—with many of the runners leaving the race to shake his hand and thank him for his service.

Two 8-year-olds and a 9-year-old were busted for smoking marijuana in an elementary school boys' room last week.

Remember those hoverboards that were almost certainly fake? Well, they're fake.

RT America anchor Liz Wahl abruptly resigned from her job while filming a live segment on Wednesday afternoon. “I cannot be a part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin,” she said. “I’m proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth. And that is why, after this newscast, I am resigning.”