An open prison in Britain went up in flames this morning when inmates rioted over attempts to make them submit to breathalyzer tests. One officer described the lead-up to the riot as "a scene out of Benny Hill."

A bug in the iPhone made one-time alarms not go off today. Judging from Twitter, this caused many people to miss their True Grit matinees and show up late for work. Bad, Apple. Here's how you can fix this.

Want to catch up on the week's most popular web videos? From a real life penguin with happy feet to a hilarious botched robbery with a giant stick, our top picks inside.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency issued a New Year editorial today that called for better relations with South Korea, while threatening a "nuclear holocaust" if the South tries to pull any shenanigans along the border.

How did you celebrate New Year's Eve? Probably not with a supermodel in Mexico. Jenny McCarthy has a new boyfriend. Justin Bieber tries to win Selena Gomez's heart with diamonds. New Year's Day Gossip Roundup is surprisingly not hungover!

It seems appropriate to close the year Back to the Future turned twenty-five with the first episode of the animated series that ran from 1991 to 1992. This episode takes the cast to a war torn Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1864.

2010 was the Year of the Unoriginal Bank Robbers.

"Mercenary" snow plower Danny DiLorenzo hit the jackpot during the Snowpocalypse: He hung a sign on his truck that reads "No favors, F-ck You Pay Me," and has made $10,000 cash plowing in Brooklyn and Queens since. [NYP]

[A man performs what could be a Triple Lindy off the 59-foot high Cavour Bridge in Rome, Italy this morning. Image via AP]

While everybody else pairs off in the wintertime, Maria Bamford finds the season frustrating. All men on dating sites seem to be really active, and she can't measure up.

Well, that's it from us for 2010. If you want to read about our favorite books, music, movies, TV, rumors, feuds, scandals, and stories, this is the place to do it. We'll be back tomorrow—Happy New Year, everyone!

We're all well aware of William Shatner's love for performing pop hits in a goofy spoken word style, his "Rocket Man" is legend. Here's his performance of "It was a Very Good Year" from the Mike Douglas Show in 1969.

A Baltimore cop with the city's Marine Unit dove into freezing cold waters in order to save a drowning dog. Not just any cop, either—this one is a cat person.

This short made by National Geographic shows us some pretty interesting things as our global population is on the verge of crossing 7 billion. And it's done really well. What can't kinetic type teach us? Nothing, I say.

Old school meets new school in this Fiddler on the Roof and You Got Served mashup. Oy, we can't wait for it to come out in 3-D!

[This is a fireworks portrait of (non-communist) Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen (from the New Year's celebration in Taipei, Taiwan), but really, it could be anyone, so send this picture your friends and tell them that it's you. Image via AP]

Here's a collection of best tweets from 2010, from the thumbs of your favorite celebrities to your computer screen. No fake accounts, thank you.

Haven't you always wanted to party at the Playboy Mansion? You probably can! Just know there is "a powerful whiff of urine" mingling with a "general scent of decay," according to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's ex Izabella St James.

Saying goodbye sucks, and 2010 was a sucky year. Here's a gallery of some of the people who died this year—from Elizabeth Edwards to J.D. Salinger to Alexander McQueen.

John Harmon, a diabetic who owns a marketing company, was pulled over after low blood sugar levels made him swerve into another lane. The sheriff's deputies smashed his window, Tasered him, and charged him with resisting arrest. Now he's suing.