Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi—he of the wild sex parties and Barack Obama fetish—has been sentenced to seven years in prison for paying for sex with an underage prostitute at one of his infamous "Bunga Bunga" shindigs.

The company that owns the site you are reading is the latest media firm to face a lawsuit from former interns seeking unpaid wages.

Exciting things are happening 90 years ago; TVLine reports that Paul Giamatti is set to come careening into Downton Abbey next season.

An ancient statue made as an offering to Osiris, the Egyptian god of death, that is currently housed at the Manchester Museum in England has suddenly started spinning inside its closed display case — and no one seems to know why.

Global News meteorologist Kristi Gordon was caught off guard last week when a sudden downpour of spiders resulted in a particularly large creepy crawler landing on her head.

Affirmative action lives! For now. In a narrow 7-1 decision, the Supreme Court refused a sweeping ruling on racial preference in college admissions, instead vacating and remanding the fifth circuit court's decision in Fisher v. Texas—sending the case back to the lower court with specific instructions.

Kimberly Kidwell and Katie Short of Little Rock, Arkansas, gathered with their beloved on the front yard of The Equality House in Topeka, Kansas, this past Saturday to join themselves in the sight of God, family, and the Westboro Baptist Church.

An Australian news reader was extremely apologetic after being overcome with laughter while reporting on some seriously unfunny news during a recent broadcast.

Today in "The New Yorker Will Publish Anything John McPhee Writes, No Matter How Tedious," please allow us to present, per The New Yorker's own press release: "John McPhee writes about 'The Orange Trapper,' a device he uses to compulsively retrieve stray golf balls." Interesting.

NSA Leaker Edward Snowden was supposed to be on Aeroflot Flight 180 from Moscow to Havana. He wasn't. But "dozens" of journalists are. It just took off. And there's no booze service on board. Welcome to the Cuban Whistleblower Crisis.

With his funeral scheduled for Thursday morning in New York City, James Gandolfini's body was sent home to the US from Italy on Sunday. Gandolfini died of a heart attack last week in Rome.

Last Thursday, a woman in Charlestown, Indiana and her boyfriend stayed up all night, armed with a rifle, to hunt down whatever it was that had been attacking small animals in her neighborhood. After spotting and shooting a creature prowling in the shadows by the woman's pool, they were shocked to find that they'd just killed a leopard, an animal that's not native to North America, much less Indiana.

College-bound monsters are apparently more popular than Brad Pitt-chasing zombies, as Monsters University $82 million topped World War Z's $66 million at the box office this weekend.

Last Wednesday, shoppers at a Target in Oregon were shocked to find tens of thousands of dead bees littering the store's parking lot. Environmentalists and scientists, while initially baffled by the deaths, now believe the bees died because of exposure to an insecticide called Safari, which had recently been applied to the parking lot's trees.

Former South African president Nelson Mandela is now in critical condition after two weeks of hospitalization for a recurring lung infection.

Did you miss Twinkies? Because they're baaaaack. Ripped from the shelves after Hostess filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012, Hostess plans to reintroduce the snack (and other perennial favorites like Ho Hos and Ding Dongs) on July 15.

The FAA, finally admitting what everyone else has known all along, is slated to scale back its draconian electronics policy. The only surprise is why it took so long, since the gadgets ban never actually accomplished anything in the first place.

Pakistani militants wearing police uniforms shot and killed 10 foreign tourists, including one American, and a Pakistani guide on Saturday night at the base camp of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world.

U mad? Lawmakers are blasting Russia for allowing NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to land in Moscow. Snowden is rumored to be headed next to Ecuador, the South American country currently sheltering Wikileaks' Julian Assange. The US also just got around to revoking Snowden's passport.

The New York Post has a story this morning on rich people getting the city to remove or relocate the much-discussed Citi Bike racks, including from the block where media billionaire Barry Diller's corporate headquarters are located in Chelsea, the block of a luxury Midtown East condo building, and the block where John Slattery lives in SoHo.