Dubai, the luxury capital of the world, was not always so glamorous. Watch the emirate's change from desert to leisure metropolis right before your eyes! You might even say these are the awkward yearbook photos of the swiftly developing city.

Barney Frank wants to legalize online gambling. Europe's already reaping the gambling tax revenues. California's debating legalized gambling, and so is Massachusetts. Table games are back in the Poconos, and they're popular as ever. Gambling! A financial utopia?

Either this man just discovered the most creative way to cross the street or he decided it was a good day to dance with the devil and tempt fate.

Sharron Angle, the far-right Senate candidate from Nevada whose ineptitude may keep Harry Reid in office, gave a hilarious interview to Fox News over the weekend explaining her selective media strategy: "We needed to have the press be our friend."

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St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village officially shut down last April. They even boarded up the ER. Yet a tipster took this photo of the St. Vincent's windows just a week ago. Scooby-Doo: where are you?

Maxim's new Lindsay Lohan cover story coincides with the starlet's freedom. Gisele Bundchen tells women what to do with their breasts. Christina Hendricks used to be goth. Pregnant man has third child. Tuesday gossip lifts and separates.

In keeping with the old adage "When it rains, it pours," the internet gods have provided us with yet another local news gem today. Watch along as two Hixson, Tennessee robbery victims recount their misfortune in true Antoine Dodson-esque fashion.

[Kelly Killoren Bensimon is petrified during a commercial shoot in the East Village yesterday when she thinks she hears the monster Frankel-stein approaching. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

Daniel Reimold is a journalism professor who's spent the last several years talkin' sex talk to sex-talkin' young coeds who write sex columns in college newspapers. Daniel hates how sex column coverage is "an inch deep," that's what she said.

Imagine dating one of Sly Stallone's daughters? Nope. Rocky talked to Jay Leno about his young love life, because he started dating at 9 years old and had some pretty interesting techniques to meet the ladies.

They seem to be more than costars—and closer than friends. This reality star and her man spent a weekend having kinky sex, and this young actress gets drunk before fan events. Don't blame her, blame the fans!

The campaign trail took Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Basil Marceaux to Jimmy Kimmel Live! to explain his platform. Marceaux discussed the Second Amendment, the death penalty, buying votes, and future plans if Tennessee does not embrace him in the upcoming election.

Teachers: they're just like us! When they want to get out of a test, they just pretend they fell down the stairs, then take four days off. And it all would have worked if it weren't for that cursed camera.

As the Battle of the Cheetos progresses into its fourth week, thousands of users have tasted victory on battlefields across the web. But time still remains to create your own Crunchy or Puffs army and achieve worldwide web domination. Do you have what it takes? Play now, and find out.

The backers of the "Ground Zero" "Mosque"—a proposed Muslim community center in an old Burlington Coat Factory building—say they'll include a 9/11 memorial in their building. So every posturing idiot, shut up please. What's that, Abe Foxman?

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A source tells legal website Above The Law that Christopher Stone, the horrible 31-year-old pornographer who owns the tween gossip site StickyDrama, has enrolled in Southwestern Law School. And he's selling StickyDrama—bidding starts at $25,000!