[A protester throws stones at a burning police bus in Kiev, Ukraine. Hundreds of the large group of protesters clashed with riot police in the center of the Ukrainian capital, after harsh anti-protest legislation was passed last week. Image by Evgeny Feldman via AP.]

The Seattle Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl, after cornerback Richard Sherman ended the San Francisco 49ers final drive by leaping and tipping a pass for teammate Malcolm Smith to intercept in the end zone. Nobody was more impressed by Sherman's performance than Richard Sherman, as he demonstrated in his cruelly enthusiastic postgame interview.

Chris Christie is upset — he's upset at his staffers, he's upset at his appointees, but mostly, he's upset because his idol, Bruce Springsteen, made fun of him.

A sixty-two-year-old British man was murdered trying to protect his wife in the Caribbean this weekend after armed attackers raided his 41-foot yacht.

Antigovernment protests in Bangkok turned violent again this weekend — on Friday, a grenade bomb killed one protestor and injured 35 others, on Saturday another protestor was killed, and today at least 28 bystanders were wounded by two twin bombs that exploded near a protest site.

It took four trips to North Korea and a drunken CNN interview defending his "best friend" Kim Jong Un, but Dennis Rodman appears to have hit his rock bottom. The 52-year-old former NBA star checked into rehab this week. A State Department official told CNN that Rodman's latest visit was "marginally unhelpful."

On Thursday night, lighting struck Brazil's famous "Christ the Redeemer" statue. The incident broke the statue's thumb, but did produce a few amazing photographs.

Amazon gained a patent on Saturday for what the company calls "anticipatory shipping," which will let them ship items to customers before they've even technically purchased them. Basically, Amazon can read your mind.

ESPN has issued a statement regarding the controversy surrounding Grantland's story on the suicide of trans golf club inventor Dr. V, saying in part that they will "use the constructive feedback to continue our ongoing dialogue on these important and sensitive topics."

Vladimir Putin should probably stop talking about gay people. In an interview today, the Russian president aimed to downplay fears that gay men and women will be in danger during the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, but instead he might have done the opposite.

New York City's 311 hotline received over 260,000 complaints about noise in 2013 proving what Big Apple residents already know: the city is annoyingly loud. Health officials say there are plenty places in the city where decibels reach up to 85 and in some places noise levels exceed 100 decibels.

According to a recent New York Times op-ed from Ezekiel J. Emanuel, studies find that STDs are rising in communities of single senior citizens.

America is no longer scared of pot, and it doesn't seem like Barack Obama is, either. In a long interview with David Remnick of The New Yorker, Obama said just about everything he should be saying about weed.

New laws passed in Ukraine that severely limit anti-government demonstrations predictably had the opposite effect today, as 100,000 people rioted in Kiev to protest the measures.

On Saturday, One Direction member Liam Payne tweeted "huge love to your family" at Willie Robertson of the A&E hit show Duck Dynasty.

Earth is a vast and incredible place, especially when a falcon unknowingly picks up a camera disguised as an egg and then flies over a rockhopper penguin colony.

Maryland resident Zakieya L. Avery has been accused of stabbing her two young children to death and injuring two others while attempting to perform an exorcism on them on Friday.

Drake pulled double duty on Saturday Night Live last night, performing for the second time in his career and hosting for the first. All told, he was SNL's most entertaining host in a while, and the same could be said for the episode itself. More highlights are below.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is quoted as saying he has no intention of quitting and insists he will remain in charge. Although more than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict, al-Assad says the issue is not up for discussion at upcoming peace talks.

Republican strategist Mary Matalin appeared on last night's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher to discuss the book she wrote with her Democrat husband James Carville, Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home. (Carville also appeared on the Real Time panel.) When she sat down next to Maher, he remarked, "I know you're very brave because you had a fall and you had a little medical problem and you still showed up." Matalin proved to be more than just brave—she seemed hopped up on something that made her speech sluggish and slurred. She brought the party.