A new aid boat has set off from the coast of Italy for Gaza, as the UN Security Council condemned Monday's deadly Israeli commando raid. An Israeli Navy commander told the Jerusalem Post, "Next time we'll use more force."
POP 2010 The Dream—featuring LiLo pal Steve Aoki and an Israeli trance band with the unfortunate name Infected Mushroom—drew 16,500 people last weekend. One man died and 70 were arrested for selling drugs. Wait… raves still exist?
Major Nidal Hassan will make his first appearance in a Fort Hood military court today for an Article 32 hearing, which is similar to a grand jury proceeding. He could receive the death penalty for killing 13 soldiers. [AP, pic]
The former Nightline anchor's son, Andrew Koppel, was found dead in a Washington Heights apartment early yesterday after an all day Midtown bender. He was 40 years old and worked as an attorney for the NYC Housing Authority. [NYP, pic]
The world is a scary place! On Monday alone we had a giant sinkhole, an international incident, marauding bees and a mosquito plague. So why not take a couple minutes and watch an otter pup learning how to swim?
A woman is suing Google after being hit by a car while following directions from Google Maps. Do you remember when a fictional character basically did this on The Office, and people said it was unrealistic? Ha. [PC World]
UFC fighter Quinton "Rampage" Jackson plays the Mr. T role in this summer's big-budget A-Team. It's a big role, and a chance at stardom for Jackson. So he may want to stop saying things like "acting is kind of gay."
Artist Louise Bourgeois died Monday in Manhattan following a heart attack. Her awesome, creepy sculptures—including this spider, Maman, outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain—shot her to fame in her 70s. [LAT; pic via Topyti's Flickr]
The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department in New Mexico has has formed a "party patrol" to deal with underage drinking. Here is what the "party patrol" consists of: 16 specially-assigned deputies, and a goddamn helicopter.
So many questions about this! Like: Why Cipriani Wall Street, bees? What, did you want to get onto Page 6? God knows there are not a lot of great restaurants in the FiDi, but Zaitzeff is only a few blocks away!
Heavy rains from tropical storm Agatha caused an enormous sinkhole to open up in Guatemala City, swallowing a three-story building and a house, and killing one. At least 115 people in three countries died in the storm. [CNN; pic via]
Al Qaeda's third-in-command, Mustafa Abu Yazid, has died. Maybe. According to ABC, al Qaeda released a believed-to-be-genuine eulogy for "the group's chief operating officer." It seems he was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan.
A rainy spring in the northeast was "the perfect storm for mosquitoes," who breed in standing water left after rainstorms. Can't wait! To avoid painful mosquito bites, we recommend not having any blood in your body. [Fox]
Israel has released a video of the early-morning raid on a blockade-violating aid ship headed for Gaza that resulted in the shooting deaths of nine activists. It appears to show soldiers being beaten with metal pipes and thrown overboard.
Fox News Anchor Greta Van Susteren started a poll on her blog asking if she was dumber than a guy who sent her hate mail. She "won." "havw [sic] some fun!" she wrote today, "the poll was a joke!"
So, our post on Lady Gaga's 107 most unnecessary eccentricities really pissed off a man named Kenny Tarr. Kenny did not like an uppity Asian man mocking Italian pop princess Stefani Germanotta. He sent us this email.