The driver of the train that collided into a wall last Wednesday in Spain, killing 79 people, was on the phone and reading a document at the time of the impact. The train swerved off the track while it was traveling at 95 miles per hour, which is nearly twice the 50 mph speed limit. The train's driver had previously bragged on Facebook about speeding the train up to 120 mph.

Yerin Park, better known as the world's most adorable baby (and the living embodiment of Boo from Monsters Inc.), was tentatively accommodating of her papa's horsing around until she had enough and took a stand.

As the LGBT community ramps up its protest of Russia's recently enacted "gay propaganda" law, the lawmaker responsible for its existence released a statement saying Olympic athletes and tourists will be subject to its penalties.

After a rash of rhubarb burglaries in a nondescript Iowa town, local residents set out to uncover the culprit — only to discover that the person behind the leafy larceny is exactly the kind of person you'd expect would steal someone else's hard-grown rhubarb.

A University of California San Diego student abandoned in a DEA holding cell for four days, without food or water, settled a lawsuit against the Justice Department on Tuesday for $4.1 million.

Things aren't going well for Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign. There was the second round of dick pics, the campaign manager quitting, the drop in the polls, and the non-answer about whether or not he is sexting someone at this exact moment. And now this: on Tuesday, Weiner's communications director called a former intern for the campaign a “fucking slutbag,” a “twat,” and a “cunt.”

Firefighters are used to facing dangerous situations on the job. Collapsing buildings, explosions, masturbating gay porn stars, NYPD officers stuck in trees, etc. One thing they probably don't expect to encounter, though, is a room full of venomous snakes.

Three former Penn State officials, including ex-college president Graham Spanier, will stand trial for their alleged role in covering up the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. The three were charged with perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children, failure to properly report suspected abuse, and conspiracy.

For years, kids have exploited the fact that adults have no idea how much any earthly object, activity, or concept costs.

The San Diego City Council will file a lawsuit against San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to recover any money the city has to pay as a result of the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of the mayor's former top aides. Filner announced last Friday that he's taking two weeks off to enter an "intensive therapy" program.

Well, technically, these two supercuts from NextMovie encompass every movie reference The Simpsons dropped in seasons 1 through 10, but it might as well be every movie reference The Simpsons ever made since the show has been inarguably over since season 11.

You don't walk around with a name like Hugh Jackman without being perpetually huge and jacked.

One of the many reasons you will never, ever be able to own a brownstone in gentrifying Brooklyn: European, Israeli, and Australian firms are methodically buying up all the inventory.

A traffic sign installed outside a private preschool in Auburn, California, urging drivers to slow down is certainly getting noticed, but, ironically, is making the street less safe for kids.

This man is extraordinary. His defining white beard. His joie de vivre. His pet raccoon.

The dramatic feud between Teresa Giudice and the government of the United States of America is exploding faster than a fight at a child's christening after some guests find out they weren't invited to help pick out baby-themed charms for the Pandora bracelets in the christening gift bags like Jacqueline was, even though Jacqueline's not even family, SHE'S NOT FAMB-IL-Y.

On Saturday, an oil pipeline leaked 13,200 gallons of crude oil (the equivalent of one and a half tanker trucks) into the Gulf of Thailand. The oil slick is continuing to spread, blackening the beaches and water of a tourist island in the country's eastern sea.

There is no better illustration of the disconnect between our economy's winners and losers than the California real estate market. The winners are bidding up Silicon Valley home prices and resurrecting the house-flipping craze. The losers are just trying to hold their cities together under a wave of mortgage defaults. Is there a solution?

WorldStarHipHop fight videos are infamously formulaic: Scenes of senseless violence gratingly scored by a din of champagne bottles being popped, cellphone selfies being snapped, and, of course, the chorus of "World Star" chants that passes for branding on the popular shock site.