An 85-year-old veteran detained in North Korea for more than a month has "apologized" to North Korea for committing "indelible crimes against" the country during his current trip as well as his last trip to North Korea (which was to fight North Koreans). Merrill Newman had been taken off a plane bound for California moments before takeoff.

From the brilliant mind behind @Seinfeld2000 and "The Apple Store" comes the "tragic engagement of Garge and Suzette from Sienfeld" — a bizarre, engaging and fantastic music video of George and Susan's season-long love story, set to the Arcade Fire's "Here Comes the Night."

A police helicopter crashed into a crowded pub in Glasgow late Friday night, killing everyone on board as well as five people inside the establishment. Fourteen other people remain hospitalized with serious injuries.

You may have heard about the alleged live-tweeted Thanksgiving airplane spat between Bachelor producer Elan Gale and his surly flight-mate, Diane in 7A. But now the experts have weighed in — and, according to noted airline critic Alec Baldwin, Elan won the war of the passive aggression.

A Pennsylvania man has killed a 772-pound black bear. "I don't know if I'll ever beat that one," Daniel Beavers said of the dead bear. "It's big."

In a plot stolen straight out of "Hannibal", Italian police are saying that Calabrian mobsters recently murdered a mafia don by beating the man with a spade and then throwing him into a sty, where he was eaten alive by pigs.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan believes the Catholic church is "caricatured as being anti-gay." It's not so much anti-gay people as just being really pro-not-gay people.

Peter Kaplan, the editor of the New York Observer for fifteen years, whose talent and affability helped the publication offer a smart, insider's view of New York City's elite, died of cancer on Friday at the age of 59.

I. I am waiting for a letter to arrive in the mail. It will be short, no more than one page, and will be covered in black ink, with the occasional flourish of institutional logo. The signature at the bottom will belong to a high-ranking officer at my Midwestern college of 12,000 students, and the words that preface it will briefly explain the method and, more importantly, the verdict, of an almost three-week long investigation, in which students, faculty, and staff were questioned by the school’s legal staff as to if, in fact, I had committed acts constituting an official case of racial harassment.

Well that's one way to get people to go see your work — artist Jamison Ernest has been hiding a diamond a day for patrons to take home from his "Bouncing Cars" exhibition at the Ambassador Gallery in New York. "I want to give people hope," Ernest said. There's one diamond left at the show, which closes today.

Florida has finally found a crime epicenter that it can take the moral high ground against: Canada.

[An Egyptian riot policeman fires tear gas in Cairo on Friday to disperse hundreds of Islamist demonstrators defying a new protest law that has drawn widespread criticism from the international community and democracy advocates. Photo by Ahmed Gomaa via AP]

Why trample someone on Black Friday when you can use a stun gun? There's now a video of a woman at the Franklin Mills Mall in Northeast Philadelphia zapping someone while shopping at 2:30 a.m.

A 34-year-old man shot and killed a 72-year-old man he thought was a prowler on Wednesday in Walker County, Ga. But instead of shooting a prowler, Joe Hendrix shot Ronald Westbrook, an elderly man with advanced Alzheimer's disease.

As part of his hazing ritual for joining Manchester United, a young David Beckham had to jerk off to a picture of another dude in front of his jeering teammates.

[Six-month-old puppy Dexter was reunited with his owner, Guardsman Spc. Jacob Montgomery, nine days after a tornado destroyed their apartment in Washington, Ill. Buried in the rubble, Dexter was found by a neighbor and coaxed out with hot dogs. Photo by Illinois National Guard via AP]

It's Black Friday 2013 and Walmart sales are up, Walmart shoppers are down, online sales continue to grow, and the working poor can't even afford to buy the discounted goods they're selling. No matter where you are in the United States, it's hard to escape the reach of the shopping madness, something everyone pretends to hate until they have a bargain-priced new television in their family room.

Sexual frustration impairs the health of fruit flies and causes premature death, according to new research that explains why you should hit up your hometown bar tonight.

A German police officer was arrested Wednesday and accused of killing and chopping up a man he met online. According to authorities, the man he murdered had "long fantasized" about being killed and eaten.