[With bib number 55-970 affixed to His cross, New-York based photographer Makoto Takeuchi ran Sunday’s ING NYC Marathon sans shoes on the dirty city streets. Photo by brigettebgood via Instagram]

A boycott of Ender’s Game couldn't keep families away from the movies this weekend and the filmed topped the box office with more than $28 million. Last Vegas, the movie you’ll begrudgingly see with your parents over Thanksgiving, came in third place with $16.5 million.

Outsourcing is a time-honored American tradition. First, you had a job. Then your job was given to someone, somewhere else, who could do it cheaper. But what if instead of a low-wage worker in China, you were replaced by a low-wage worker in Florida, who was sitting at a desk, staring into a camera and doing your old job by video? Then you'd be a bank teller.

There was a rare hybrid solar eclipse this morning, a phenomenon that occurs when an annular eclipse — where the sun creates a ring around the moon's shadow — turns into a total eclipse. It was visible from North America, South America, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa

George W. Bush has been out of office for five years now, and it's been a low-key five years, spent painting watercolors, opening his presidential library, and undergoing minor heart surgery. But apart from these occasional updates, 43 has stayed well under the radar — and that probably won't change.

The U.N. is proposing a plan that would have countries cooperate on sending small kamikaze robots to destroy incoming asteroids.

During his Sunday afternoon radio show that he shares with his brother, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford promised to stop getting "hammered" in public, and offered a general apology for his behavior, but made no specific mention of his drug use or any of the actions allegedly captured on the video that is now in the hands of the Toronto Police Department.

Two small planes collided with one another 12,000 feet in the air Saturday and everyone lived, thanks mostly to the fact that all of the passengers were experienced skydivers with parachutes.

A member of Pussy Riot, the Russian punk outfit that found themselves in prison after insulting Russian President Putin, has not been heard from by her family since she was transferred to a new prison 11 days ago.

What was supposed to be a secret letter authored by all sixteen of the current Democratic female senators urging Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016 became public this week when Sen. Kay Hagan apparently accidentally mentioned it at an EMILY's List event. ABC reports Hagan had to send out apologetic emails to the other senators.

A trucker who crashed into three police cars and two trucks, killing an Arizona public safety officer, was on Facebook at the time of the crash, and had used his phone to watch YouTube and look up female escort web pages, porn sites and social networks while driving on other occasions.

[A Voodoo devotee prays on top of a grave stone during Day of the Dead celebrations at the cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery via AP]

This weekend officially marks the end of Halloween season, and we have a winner in the awful costume contest: Twenty-two year old Michigan native Alicia Ann Lynch dressed as a Boston bombing victim.

And Kenya takes it. Geoffrey Mutai successfully defended his 2011 New York City Marathon title (last year's race was canceled due to Hurricane Sandy) with a 2:08:24, and fellow Kenyan Priscah Jeptoo won the women's title with an unofficial time of 2:25:07.

Saturday Night Live, which features not a single black woman on cast, immediately addressed the issue last night in its opening sketch: By poking fun at itself and not really addressing anything (a point driven home by the Rev. Al Sharpton).

Lawmakers in the United Arab Emirates believe their current laws against sorcerers are "insufficient."

Three Oklahoma inmates are receiving a lot of good press for an innovation that lawmakers say could save the state $20 million annually.

Not even waiting until a year has passed since the last general election, a prominent Democrat has officially endorsed an all-but-official candidate for 2016. In a speech in front of Iowa Democrats last night, New York Senator Chuck Schumer declared that "2016 is Hillary’s time.”

A German law just came into effect establishing a third gender option for newborns — "indeterminate" — allowing the parents of babies who have both male and female characteristics to delay selecting a gender until the child is old enough to decide.

It's Britney, bitch, and she's saving sailors across the world. Because as it turns out, the latest and most effective method of deterring Somali pirates is blasting Britney Spears at them.