Health insurance CEO pay doubled to $13.1m. Her company's rates increase 31 per cent.

"He thought if he could save one chubby girl, then he's done his job." An Indiana man on a "mission from god" to keep girls slim destroyed $200 of raw meat by stabbing it and smearing it with dog food.

South African white supremacist, and pro-apartheid campaigner, Eugene Terreblanche has been beaten to death on his farm over a wage dispute. Two people — said to be workers, of unspecified racial heritage — are reported to have been arrested. [BBC]

A Texas megachurch has decided to lure potential God-botherers through its doors tomorrow by giving away a donated furniture set, 15 TVs, 16 cars and other very holy items that are not at all incongruous.

Torture porn provocateur and Peaches boyfriend Eli Roth wrote a letter chastising Meredith Bluett-Mills, "mother of 'thatcoolguyben'." He calls Peaches a "bright, intelligent, incredibly creative young writer" and vows to use the "instantaneous connectivity of the internet" against the Bluett-Millses.

Easter. A time for chocolate, contemplation, and family. And, if you're a couple of kids in a Des Moines park, for finding a dead body while on an easter egg hunt. (We're not going to make a resurrection joke.) [AP]

The Catholic Church's pedophilia scandal is edging closer to Pope Benedict. But it's not the first time he's been caught flat-footed in a mess at least partly of his own making. Here's our guide to the Pope's blunders.

All they need now is a pipe bomb, and they will never be scooped again. Tom & Jerry's is a dive bar near our office. It's also "Elaine's for the glittering digital set," "where everyone knows your Twitter handle."

[From now on, she will be ferried about in plush pink slippers instead. Katie Holmes and progeny on their way to dinner at Alice's Tea Cup. Image via INF.]

Remember when Sex and the City was on HBO, and was somewhat edgy? Well now it's Disney for bachelorette parties and aging women trying to recapture their youths with shoes and cocktails. And the lamest places in NY smell money.

Are you sitting down? This may come as a shock. On his Census, the president checked the box for "Black, African Am., or Negro." Multiracial people can check more than one box, but he did not. [NYT]

Carmen Llewellyn says Scientology "ruined my life and my career. I ended up addicted to painkillers." She blames Scientology for Tom Cruise's divorce from "Suppressive Person" Nicole Kidman and says the Travoltas hid their son Jett from the church.

Falling outside a club last week, LiLo said the paparazzi pushed her. After falling again last night, LiLo was denied entry from another club—and says it's the paparazzi's fault, for bribing bouncers to humiliate her. Is it true?

A mysterious figure has been breaking into luxury boutiques in the early hours of the morning and stealing only the finest luxury goods like $260 jeans and $23,000 of designer sunglasses.

One moment from childhood defines a man's entire existence as he time-travels from post-Apocalyptic Paris to save humanity, hunted by the scientists who sent him, and haunted by his strange memory of a gunshot and a girl on the pier.

Well Westchester poodle, singular, anyway. Cleopatra, a fluffy white doggy owned by an elderly lady was tethered serenely in the back yard last week, dreaming of coiffure, when she was set upon by the slavering hounds.

If all the noise around today's iPad debut leaves you baffled, fear not: We've oscillated between giddy excitement and jaded cynicism ourselves, and can offer this handy list of reasons to embrace — or diss — the Apple tablet computer.

Using wizardry — GPS analysis of six months' cab trips—some clever people have plotted exactly where the best place to get a cab is at any time. Clue: it's not likely to be Penn Station at 9am. [NYT]

Tim and Eric got f-ing Josh Groban to sing on their show. They didn't get him to sing a classical piece from one of his acclaimed albums, but instead: cops and robbers, horse and buggy rides, hamburgers and hot dogs.

Sarah Palin. We find her fascinating. Idiots also find her fascinating. Or do they? Her Fox News special, Sarah Palin's Real American Stories, got fewer viewers than the show it replaced. People switched over as the program went on. [HuffPo]