When Jason Biggs wrote that being a celebrity meant having constant anxiety about being recognized, he had no idea — high-end retail stores are testing technology that scans customers against a database of celebrity photos and alerts store clerks when there's a match.

An EMT tried to pay an undercover New York Post reporter $400 to take a state-certification exam for him after the reporter responded to the EMT's Craigslist ad. The EMT, Bernard Shore, also made the reporter a fake ID for the exam.

The city of Detroit is in a bad, bad way. Its austerity-driven emergency manager Kevyn Orr finally took the city into bankruptcy earlier this week, nullifying several municipal contracts and essentially looking to push the reset button on an entire working-class American city.

The fictional city of Mos Espa from Star Wars: Episode 1, located in the real Tunisian Desert, is slowly being devoured by a sand dune.

Dubai, alarmed by the sudden rise in obesity among its citizens, has decided to offer an interesting incentive for its population to slim down — gold.

A Hamptons weed grower and his girlfriend got busted for felony possession of marijuana and misdemeanor gun possession last month after the man accidentally shot his neighbor's above-ground pool.

Whoopsies. A Navy exercise went terribly wrong last week when American fighter jets dropped four unarmed bombs onto Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

A 35-year-old registered sex offender has been arrested after Ohio police found three bodies wrapped in plastic in the same 300-yard radius on Friday and Saturday. All three victims are believed to be black females who were killed in the last six to ten days.

Thousands of people across the country rallied in honor of Trayvon Martin yesterday. In New York City, Martin's mother said her son "was a child, who thought as a child, who acted as a child." After Jay Z attended a rally earlier in the day, he dedicated a performance of his song "Young Forever" to Martin's memory.

A woman who told a park employee she didn't feel secure in her seat before a ride at Six Flags in Arlington, Texas fell to her death on Friday after being thrown off a roller coaster.

Miami. A beautiful city, but also many other things. A city of class. A city where people casually eat other people's faces. And now, it's also the first city to be charged with fraud by the SEC.

After I finished cutting my hair yesterday, I spent a longer time than usual staring at myself in my bathroom mirror.

A mother of three was arrested in Santa Ana this week after police discovered her ten-year-old son bound up in chains and crying in the courtyard of an apartment building.

It's Christmas-time in conspiracy-land as it's been revealed that the CIA will be funding a $630,000 study into whether the government could control the weather and stop global climate change.

It sounds like a Mel Brooks joke, but it's true — a British law firm has admitted that it was responsible for outing JK Rowling as the secret author of a detective novel, after a partner of the firm told his wife's best friend.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a socialist thorn in the side of capitalist United States, is not even going to bother trying to be friends with the U.S. anymore, after a series of remarks by Obama U.N. nominee Samantha Power.

On Friday, a secret court extended the NSA's authority to collect and store phone records. According to the Washington Post, this is the first time U.S. officials have publicly acknowledged the NSA's cellphone data program.

Somewhere, high in a palm tree, nestled amongst the coconuts, Keith Richards approves.

An FDNY firefighter is being charged with grand larceny and burglary by police after making fake 911 calls and then robbing firehouses after firefighters had gone off to respond to the fake emergencies.