[A visitor uses his mobile phone as he stands in front of an over-life sized Roman marble torso previously owned by French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. The artifact, estimated to fetch between $1 and 2 million, will be offered in Christie's sale of Antiquities on Oct. 24. Image by Lefteris Pitarakis via AP]

After her six-year-old daughter spent over an hour "wigging out" in her room, Kathy Sterner realized there was "no talking her down."

Capitalism has an innate ability to overtake and subsume all popular things, even those that were initially imagined to be explicitly anti-establishment. This goes for cool bands, great art, and even, as a matter of fact, illegal drugs.

Fed up with fans constantly bombarding him with requests to belt out his one his iconic movie lines — "even when I walk into Starbucks" — Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to just give in and take requests.

One day after news broke that the NSA hacked into the Mexican president's email, French paper Le Monde reported that the U.S. spy agency recorded more than 70 million phone calls in France over a 30 day period last year.

Guess the end of this headline: "6-foot gator makes unwelcome appearance at front door of __ __." Okay, yes, it's "Florida Wal-Mart." We'll find a harder one next time.

Just after midnight on Monday, dozens of of gay couples across New Jersey were married, including seven who were wed at Newark's city hall by Mayor and Senator-elect Cory Booker.

Matt Milstead, 36, parked his BMW in a handicapped spot before a playing a game of wheelchair rugby at the YMCA in Grand Rapids, Michigan. When he returned to his car after the game, he found a letter under the door’s handle.

[An Indian woman from the Uttar Pradesh state cried Sunday after two of her relatives died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor. The death toll from toxic liquor in Northern India has reached 42 people in three days. Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh via AP.]

Tomorrow President Obama will declare that the Obamacare website glitches are "unacceptable." And speaking of unacceptable, Sen. Ted Cruz told ABC's This Week on Sunday that "I would do anything, and will continue to do anything, to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare."

On Sunday’s 60 Minutes, viewers were given proof that Dick Cheney does, in fact, have a heart. Granted, the first one he had was a piece of shit: it suffered five heart attacks, started a war, underwent open heart surgery, multiple catheterizations and angioplasties, and had a defibrillator and pump implanted. But his newly donated one seems to be working just fine.

Same-sex marriages in New Jersey are scheduled to begin Monday at 12:01 a.m. Though the process has been plagued with bureaucratic difficulties, mayors in Newark, Jersey City, Asbury Park and Lambertville plan to open City Halls late Sunday and marry couples as soon as they're able.

Cody Littlewood was at Brandy’s Piano Bar on the Upper East Side when bartender Joe Ardizzone offered the crowd an angsty treat.

Gravity topped the box office for the third straight weekend as it gained traction with three separate audiences: "adults," "women," and "fanboys." Not as many people saw Carrie because it’s way lame compared to a movie filmed in space.

The MTA is considering a new subway model for New York City — "articulated trains," which have no internal doors, functioning much like accordion busses. While MTA officials estimate the new trains could shorten stop times, they would also make it harder to isolate "the scourge of the sick passenger" — that is, bodily fluids — for cleanup.

Guards in a Moldovan prison grew increasingly suspicious of a small grey and white cat they had recently seen repeatedly entering and exiting a small hole in a prison fence. When they caught the cat and inspected its novelty-sized collar, they found bags of cannabis.

And the New York City we all know is back. A placid, peaceful week totally bereft of murders culminated in violence this weekend, when twelve shootings in ten hours left five people dead.

Yesterday a Long Island man tried to board a JetBlue flight with a carry-on bag holding more than a dozen knives, a dozen lighters, five pairs of scissors, and, in case he got hungry, a large container of Utz pretzel pub mix.

The dead Nazi that no one wants will be buried in a "secret location" somewhere in Italy. Earlier attempts to bury war criminal Erich Priebke were met with angry protests.

A group of devoted Breaking Bad fans held a funeral for lead character Walter White yesterday, complete with a real headstone and taking place in a very real cemetery.