Whoa there: After 18 hours of labor, a Florida woman reeled in this 14.1-pound whopper last week, one of the state's largest on record. Whatta catch!

On Friday, a Maryland court ruled that Adnan Syed, the subject of last year's Serial podcast, will be allowed to appeal his 2000 conviction for the murder of ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. According to Buzzfeed, the state's Court of Special Appeals will hear arguments on the case in June.

Twitter personality Michael Wolff's girlfriend Victoria Floethe, a person from 2009, is pregnant, Page Six reports. Wolfe is 61; Floethe is 34. Congratulations to them both! Babies are wonderful.

When I talk about my downtown life as a kid, people ask how old I am. Growing up in New York City in the 70s was more like being an urchin of the 30s than a silver spoon of the 80s. I'm more likely to share recollections with a 70-year old—playing stoop, jumping off the piers—than to wax fondly upon the boy bands, cocaine, and angular sports cars of Ronald Reagan's second term.

At least 36 people were killed and 70 more were wounded as explosions ripped through three Baghdad neighborhoods on Saturday, the New York Times reports. At least 62 people have been killed in the city in the last 10 days.

Authorities in Georgia have reportedly launched a criminal investigation into the case of Bobby Kristina Brown, who was found unresponsive in a bathtub last weekend and has been in a medically-induced coma since.

The Nigerian electoral commission has decided to postpone the presidential and legislative elections scheduled for February 14th, the Associated Press reports. The six-week delay will allow a newly-formed multinational force the opportunity to reclaim areas controlled by Boko Haram.

Instagram's most famous overcompensator, millionaire fake breast enthusiast Dan Bilzerian, was arrested in December on felony explosives charges as he returned from allegedly kicking a woman in the face at Art Basel. Two months later, he's now free and clear after pleading no contest to a lesser charge and agreeing to star in a PSA as punishment.

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Jay Maisel is suddenly a very rich man. In what the New York Daily News is calling "one of the greatest returns on investment in the history of New York City real estate," the photographer who owns and inhabits the hulking 72-room building offloaded his home to developer Aby Rosen last year. Now, the selling-price is public: $55 million—539 times more than what Maisel paid when he bought it for $102,000 in 1966. Shed a tear for old New York and read more about the graffiti-covered landmark below.

In the two weeks since an owl attack sent surgeon Ron Jaecks running in circles screaming, at least three more people have been assaulted by the same bird in the same Salem, Oregon, park.

Researchers using simulations have determined that when deciding who to mate with, it is better from an evolutionary perspective to "mate with the first, potentially inferior, companion" than to "wait for Mr. or Ms. Perfect to come around." So get out there and mate, idiots.

A man in the Pine Point neighborhood of Springfield, Mass. got himself into a tiny unchill sitch when he attempted to steal a cop car and the cops would not stop harassing him to give it back. In a fifteen minute phone call between the police officers in charge of the car and the man, the man is very whatever, "You guys are boring, I'm going to go find crime."

Look at this guy. His name is Eike Batista, and he used to be rich as hell, but now he's poor as hell due to white collar fraud, which makes it funny. Think you're broke? This guy's way worse: Bloomberg says he's a "negative billionaire," which just, wow.

All human history, everyone knows, comes down to sex, violence and oil, so that in the end is the story of Sudan.

Yesterday brought a new report on the awful solitary confinement practices of the state of Texas. Today, let us share another recent report on solitary confinement in the state of Arizona, and its "decaying and detrimental effect on human beings."

On Tuesday, people around the world were able to watch Islamist militants burn a man alive as easily as they could see Rihanna and Kanye's new music video. The face of the victim, Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, was plastered across Facebook and CNN—and here on Gawker. The moments before his demise became ubiquitous. And it was made possible by one of the most sophisticated propaganda machines ever created.

The Islamic State claims that retaliatory airstrikes from Jordan have killed an American woman being held hostage by the group, according to the New York Times—while Jordanian officials are strenuously denying ISIS' claims, calling the release "just another PR stunt."

Comcast, in the process of trying (or pretending) to reform its worst-in-America customer service, hit a snag this week when it had to apologize to customers for changing the names on their accounts to Whore, Asshole, Dummy, and Fuck You. The company downplayed the incidents, saying they'd cut ties with the "vendor call center" behind one of the name-changes, but more keep popping up. The latest: A 63-year-old woman known in Comcast's billing system as "SuperBitch."

In unanimous ruling Friday, Canada's Supreme Court struck down a decades-old law banning assisted-suicide. Now mentally-competent adults suffering from incurable diseases (or who are otherwise in intolerable pain) have the legal right to seek a doctor's help in dying.