Police have identified the man behind the on-going siege in Sydney as Man Haron Monis, a self-proclaimed cleric and former "spiritual healer" granted political asylum in Australia from Iran. Monis was recently charged with 50 counts of indecent exposure and sexual assault, and as an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife, who was stabbed and lit on fire in Sydney last year. He was also convicted of sending offensive letters to the family members of dead Australian soldiers.

Vivid Entertainment, in its infinite wisdom, has calculated that America's growing interest in "big, beautiful women" and our morbid curiosity about the Honey Boo Boo family add up to ideal market conditions for a porno starring estranged couple Mama June Boo Boo and Mike "Sugar Bear" Boo Boo.

We don't want to alarm anyone, but it is now more theoretically possible than ever before that you could one day be flying on a commercial airline flight with only one single pilot, and that pilot could die during the flight—oh my god.

The FBI has agreed to investigate the death of 17-year-old Blandenboro, NC teen Lennon Lacy, who was found hanging from a trailer park swing set Aug. 29 by a dog leash. Local officials ruled his death a suicide, but skepticism cast by the teen's mother, the NAACP, and the county coroner has compelled a federal probe.

Angelina Jolie didn't show up for the premiere of Unbroken this weekend, and it wasn't because she found out last week from the Sony leaks that Hollywood producer Scott Rudin called her a "minimally talented spoiled brat." No, apparently Jolie is hiding her face because it is covered in chickenpox.

After a 14-year wait that seemed like it might last 140, D'Angelo released his new album Black Messiah tonight on iTunes and Spotify.

A young man's determination to give his girlfriend the dramatic marriage proposal she never asked for ended with a half-dozen neighbors evacuated from their homes in this edition of Please Just Propose Like a Normal Human Being.

According to reports, a fifteen-year-old Chicago boy died saving his twin brother from armed assailants this weekend.

An armed militant reportedly took at least a dozen people hostage at a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney on Sunday. Police say the situation is ongoing.

The three friends of "Jackie" described in Rolling Stone's explosive UVa fraternity gang rape expose put their real names on the record today in an interview detailing key points the magazine got wrong.

With gigabytes of revealing (and often embarrassing) internal documents spread across the internet by anonymous hackers, Sony is finally taking a public stand and threatening publications that have reported on the breach.

Called the "World's Worst Neighbor" for threatening behavior that allegedly included hurling rocks and dog shit, an Oregon man was arrested last week after police say he tried to order a contract killing on one of his victims.

A spreadsheet leaked by unidentified hackers and obtained by Gawker shows just how little Sony cared about the privacy of its customers and employees: millions of private records were stored without any encryption.

The Ohio attorney general has released a 94-minute video recording of a police interview (part of which can be seen here) with a young woman whose boyfriend, John Crawford III, had just been killed by police. The video was released to The Guardian in response to a public records request.

Whether we're sharing a pack of gum or just slashing our boss's tires, aren't we all, in some small way, Batman? Perhaps, but in a different, vastly more significant way, Michael Keaton is Batman and the rest of us are just waiting to be rescued.

After stealing $10,000 from her grandmother's sock drawer, an 11-year-old Arkansas girl reportedly gave a cab driver $1,300 to drive her to a 16-year-old crush who lived over 800 miles away.

Saturday Night Live made host Martin Freeman reprise two roles at once last night, and because Martin Freeman is very talented he did just that, returning to The British Office, which is what it is officially called, in the character of Bilbo Baggins.

On Sunday, former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to variously claim that the CIA's torture program wasn't torture, that he'd do it again "in a minute," and that 9/11 was the real torture.

North Korean authorities presented an American man to media on Sunday morning who said he had crossed into the country illegally but had not been put into custody, the Associated Press reports. He is seeking asylum in Venezuela.

Things just keep looking up for the Windsors, the workshy reality TV stars of BBC's Monarchy. Less than a week after the plucky clan met America's King and Queen, pictures of their newest little benefit scrounger have gone viral, showing up on People, the Huffington Post and even BuzzFeed!