Mavis Batey, who as an 18-year-old university student helped crack the German Enigma code leading to several instrumental victories for the Allies, died earlier this week at 92.

After weeks of negotiations between diplomats from Iran, US, the UK, Russia, China, France and Germany, Iran has agreed to temporarily freeze its nuclear program while a larger deal is negotiated.

[A Shiite fighter battles the rebels of the Free Syrian Army on Friday in Hatita, a town in the countryside of Damascus. Photo by Jaber al-Helo via AP]

Sirhan Sirhan — the man convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy — was moved in a "routine" transfer to a San Diego facility on Friday, which was also the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Corrections authorities are calling it an "unfortunate coincidence." Theorists of conspiracy, have at it.

Police in India just filed rape and assault charges against the editor of a liberal magazine, Tehelka — a publication known for its anti-corruption, pro-transparency angle, that recently called for Indians to address the country's problems with sexual violence.

Maine's famous Zumba-instructor-cum-prostitute Alexis Wright was released from jail today after serving nearly six months. Wright, who videotaped many of her sessions with her unknowing clients, received an early release for good behavior.

The Daily Dot brings our attention to a true Craigslist gem: A listing for a $1 penthouse in D.C. Thing is, you gotta be naked.

Willie Nelson has suspended his tour after a bus crash this morning left three of his bandmates in the hospital.

A Florida couple received a strange package on their doorstep at their rental home in Louisiana this summer. It was just a regular shipment of 11 pounds of marijuana, but they didn't know that yet.

Massachusetts voted this week to raise its minimum wage to $11 per hour by 2016 and then tie subsequent increases to inflation. That sounds almost livable!

Following the release of more than 300 inmates, Annie Dookhan, a Massachusetts state chemist who used to "process" drug samples almost three times as quickly as her colleagues, pled guilty Friday to fabricating her results. Police estimate her fraud possibly tainted as many as 40,000 prosecutions that she was involved in.

Katie Couric is leaving ABC News to join Yahoo. Even sinking ships need anchors, apparently.

My eyelashes are mascara-less stumps and I’ve been commando in the same stained, hot pink sweats for 36 hours, but I don’t care. It’s 2011, and my mom and I are at my grandmother’s house in Michigan hoping for some rest after a hellish year spent cycling through chemo, radiation, and surgeries.

Wilco, Guster and members of Furthur are coming together November 27 to recreate The Band's very excellent 1978 farewell concert, "The Last Waltz" — documented and made famous by Martin Scorsese — at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY. In addition to the 41 songs performed in the original "Last Waltz," this year's show will feature a few additional tunes.

81 years is a hell of a long time to be married to someone, but 102-year-old John and 98-year-old Ann Betar would be the first to admit that "it isn't a lovey dovey thing for 80 years."

You might not know Marc Breaux's name, but if you had a lucky childhood, you were almost certainly captivated by his creations. Breaux choreographed the chimney sweep scene in"Mary Poppins," and hid in the bushes and yelled at Julie Andrews to turn on a mountaintop for "The Sound of Music."

Get it together, Canadian men. Vancouver police report that incidents of public masturbation are on the rise.

The Obama administration is trying out new bird protection laws, pulling in a cool million in fines from an energy company responsible for murdering 14 golden eagles — a federal crime — with its wind turbines.

In the final, desperate days of his seemingly unending mayoralty, New York City's Michael Bloomberg has been handed yet another stinging defeat.

Major U.S. retailers including Walmart and Sears have declined to contribute to any compensation funds that would help the families of the more than 1,200 people who died while making their products in Bangladesh last year.