Someone would prefer the U.N. stay out: U.N. inspectors sent to investigate the alleged chemical-weapons attack that hit a Damascus suburb last week apparently came under sniper fire and were forced to turn back.

Taylor Swift's "shut the fuck up"—memorialized here in GIF form—was directed at her ex-boyfriend, One Direction's Harry Styles, who was at that moment on stage. But it's a pretty good review of the entire VMA experience:

Peter Leonard, one of Elmore Leonard's sons, plans to complete and publish his father's 46th novel, tentatively titled Blue Dreams. Elmore Leonard died last week at the age of 87.

In July, Kenneth Enlow was arrested after he was caught spying on a mother and a daughter from inside a public restroom's septic tank in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Last Thursday, the 54-year-old pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of peeping Tom and was sentenced to one year in jail plus a $5,000 fine.

“We certainly would not have advised him to go to the factory that made the gun that he used to shoot Trayvon Martin through the heart," Shawn Vincent, a spokesman for George Zimmerman's attorney Mark O'Mara, said about Zimmerman's recent visit to the Kel-Tec gun factory.

TMZ has quite the report on professional basketball player Lamar Odom, who is the husband to Khloe Kardashian and the uncle to North West. According to the report, Odom recently relapsed and began smoking crack cocaine again after nearly a year of sobriety, causing Kardashian to kick him out of their home after he rejected an intervention. Odom has been not been seen since, and family members are worried he may be on a 72-hour drug binge.

Lee Daniels' The Butler and We're the Millers held on to the top two spots at the box office this weekend, grossing $17 million and $13.5 million. The World's End debuted with $8.9 million, good for fourth place.

Now that Bob "Don't Wear Underwear" Filner has stepped down as San Diego's mayor, something had to fill the political sexytime void — at least this time it's more of a victimless crime.

A man swimming in a muddy Australian river was attacked and killed by a giant crocodile on Saturday. The gruesome attack was witnessed by 15 of the man's friends, who were camping along the river to celebrate another friend's 30^th birthday.

A Chicago woman has settled her $105,000 parking ticket tab. She received 670 tickets over three years.

Irony, thy name is the First Amendment.

An eight-year-old shot and killed his elderly caregiver after playing Grand Theft Auto, according to police in Slaughter, Louisiana. The child shot the elderly woman in the head in a mobile home while she was watching television.

More than 81 people fell ill with the Guinea Pig's Revenge after eating salmonella-tainted 'pig meat at a Minneapolis Ecuadorian street fair.

British men between the ages of 18 and 25 on average change their sheets about four times a year.

A dangerous measles outbreak has been traced to a megachurch in Texas whose leader told followers to stay away from vaccines.

New York is suing Donald Trump for $40 million because SPOILER ALERT: his Trump University is complete and total bullshit.

The NSA bugged the United Nations' headquarters in 2012, hacking into its videoconferencing and spying on the diplomatic work of other countries, according to yet another leak released by Edward Snowden, this time published by Germany's Der Spiegel weekly magazine.

It looks like *NSYNC will reunite this evening. Steel thyself.

A documentary and book, both set for release next month, claim that five unpublished books written by J.D. Salinger will be released, including stories that continue the arc of the Glass family and his most famous creation, Holden Caulfield.