A Michigan man filed a wrongful-termination suit against Wal-Mart after he was fired for failing a drug test. He was legally smoking pot to alleviate pain from an inoperable brain tumor. Who do you think a jury will sympathize with?

She'll say the blue movie went public "by accident," but it's all a stunt. This meth-fueled actor stole a delivery truck, and another actor likes to get a Brazillian wax. He's always ready to make a sex tape.

It's true. A waitress done up and punched her in the face. At least she's not Kristen Stewart, who fears her fans will kill her. Or at least she's not anyone else featured in this Friday gossip splooge.

This scientist licks frogs and salamanders like they're a tub of Ben & Jerry's, in order to determine what they are secreting is "foul" or not. For a video by Nat Geo, this is certainly an old-fashioned approach.

First it was SoHo's naked-man-and-boardshort emporium Hollister. Now one of CBS' New York offices is being cleaned after an infestation of bedbugs. Nowhere is safe, people. Remember: If you don't go into the office, then the bedbugs have won!

Future Funk's Bailrock, 9, and Baby Boogaloo, 5, of America's Got Talent fame entertain for the crowd during intermission. That's right, its a dance off.

This dad should never have accept to spar with his toddler. Better clarify those rules to forbid kicks to the groin.

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

Drunk driving could soon be illegal in Russia, if a vote passes the upper house of parliament. Lame.

Where's the best place in New York to drop a deuce? Depends who you ask. But two restrooms in New York are finalists in this year's "America's Best Restroom" contest—the Bryant Park public commode and Manhattan's Muse Hotel.

Shocker: An Australian Catholic priest today was sentenced to 20 years in jail for molesting 25 children between 1968 and 1986. In court he called himself a "mere scumbag paedophile." The same could be said for much of the Vatican.

Just after the Fourth of July in 1962, the US government detonated a hydrogen bomb above the earth's atmosphere, calling it "Starfish Prime." The Honolulu Advertiser's front page read: "N-Blast Tonight May Be Dazzling: Good View Likely." Nukes are fun!

Who: She's made millions off of her face and body, but these days supermodel Naomi Campbell makes headlines for her epic freakouts.

Paul Baldwin is a 49-year-old man from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As of June, Baldwin has been arrested 154 times for arson, trespassing, receiving stolen property and theft, among others offenses. His most recent arrest was for stealing 48 beers.

Governor Paterson went on a legislative earmark vetoing spree yesterday, but the NY state budget remains incomplete.

[A South African kid plays with a makeshift ball in Thokoza, outside Johannesburg. World Cup quarterfinals start today as Brazil and the Netherlands meet up in the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. Pic via AP.]

Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of discount airline Ryanair, says he'd like to sell five-pound tickets for "vertical seats," which is a not-very-fancy way of saying, "standing up on the plane the whole damn time." [Telegraph]

Back in 2001, future Pope Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger—then the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—was given sweeping authority to handle church abuse cases. But, uh, he had that power all along—and didn't use it.

Huzzah! W.S. Merwin is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. Catch up on his work here.

Actor Andrew Garfield, who is British, and 26, will play Peter Parker in director Marc Webb's "reboot" of the Spider-man franchise, ending comedian Donald Glover's dreams of playing the part. Want to see him act?