A couple weeks ago, when Barbara Walters slipped and cut her head while leaving a party at the British Ambassador's house, we were all secretly jealous of her because knowing British people is so fancy.

Google has just released its first, detailed maps of North Korea. You know what that means: ROOAAAD!!! TRIIIP!!!

15-year-old Ellen-admirer Laurel was understandably nervous about how her parents would react to her coming out, so she baked them a cake to sweeten the blow.

Police in Georgia say a homeowner shot and killed a man who accidentally ended up on his driveway after following GPS directions to the wrong house.

Jeff Zucker, the flesh egg whose destruction of NBC earned him a job running CNN, has launched his reign of terror over the network: James Carville and Mary Matalin — gone! Erick Erickson — gone! Managing editor Mark Whitaker — gone! And lo: Chris Cuomo's silhouette appears on the horizon, ready to take on "a major role in a new CNN morning show and across the network."

In New York City last year, 141 were struck by subway trains, and 55 were killed. There have been several recent high-profile deaths on the tracks, including one that made the cover of the NY Post. Falling (or being pushed) in front of a train is a classic nightmare scenario. So what should we do to prevent it? Well... something cheap, if anything.

As you can probably tell from the image above, The Walking Dead Dead Yourself photo app is truly a thing of beauty. With little-to-no physical effort on your part, you can transform your face (or the grinning visage of a loved one) into a putrid, oozing, undead nightmare — doesn't that sound like fun?

Entertainment Weekly broke the news late last night that 11-year-old Rowan Blanchard has officially been cast in the role of Cory and Topanga's daughter in the Disney Channel's upcoming spinoff of Boy Meets World.

According to the anti-regime human-rights group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as many as 80 men were found killed execution-style in an Aleppo suburb on Tuesday, many with their hands bound behind their backs. The group claims to have documented the massacre's aftermath — details of which are still obscure — in a series of extremely graphic videos it posted to its Facebook page.

This is Sam. Sam has eyebrows. Sam's eyebrows make him look perpetually worried. But Sam has nothing to be worried about: Among the #catsofinstagram, Sam stands alone.

Drop whatever you're doing unless it's made of glass and clear a smallish, rectangular space on your coffee table; Amy Poehler is writing a book.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood — the only Republican in President Obama's first-term cabinet — is stepping down.

It sounds like one of those schoolyard riddles: A driver in northern France was killed by a stray bullet that apparently ricocheted off a wild boar over a mile away.

The world cried out for more words on puppy-rescuing Newark Mayor, New Jersey Senate hopeful and Twitter celebrity Cory Booker, and Buzzfeed has delivered — 5,000 of them, answering the question "Can Cory Booker Keep It Together?" (the answer: Maybe?). Unfortunately, only a handful are devoted the only question anyone really cares about: is he gay? The answer, again, is "maybe?"

Sure, everyone chuckled this week about the Dallas Police Department not having a fucking clue what "molly" is. But were we being too harsh on Dallas whites? Because even in America's greatest metropolis, some whites are just now discovering what blunts are.

Taco Bell kicked off the year by teasing its Facebook fans with a photo of a taco alongside a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos over the caption "anything could happen in 2013" — the wink being that Cool Ranch-flavored Doritos Locos Tacos were in the offing.

Last night, on the eve of the release of her Remembering Whitney book, Whitney Houston's mother Cissy sat down with and croaked at Oprah Winfrey for a very special episode of Oprah's Next Chapter. Crankily honest, Cissy discussed the longstanding rumor that Whitney was involved in a romantic relationship with her best friend and one-time executive assistant Robyn Crawford. In the book, Cissy alludes to Whitney "experiment[ing]" with this friendship. She told Oprah that she just didn't like Robyn. "She just spoke too much…disrespectful sometimes," she explained. But the real brutality came as a result of Oprah asking Cissy if it would have bothered her if Whitney were gay.

Don't you just hate it when you're a long-distance bus driver in Chile and you accidentally forget that hardcore porn you were enjoying earlier in the coach's video tray and then press play thinking it's You've Got Mail or something and then passengers start giggling and you have no idea why until some spoilsport points it out to you and you're embarrassed as shit?

A photo posted yesterday on Justin Bieber's official fan page appears to show the recently embachelored teenybopper pop star getting a bit too familiar with one of his fans during a meet and greet in Miami.

After their fight, Frank Ocean wants to press charges against Chris Brown. Related: Brown is comparing himself to Jesus.