The UN’s World Health Organization has officially declared Senegal to be free of Ebola. The country’s first and only case was confirmed at the end of August in a patient who had entered the country from Guinea.

An 80-foot inflatable butt plug by American artist Paul McCarthy was cut down from its supports early Saturday morning by vandals, forcing authorities to deflate the installation that many prudes in the city of Paris saw as an eyesore.

The Supreme Court ruled early Saturday morning that Texas could enforce its voter ID requirement law, SB 14, in upcoming elections in early November, Dallas News reports. The decision comes in the wake of a federal judge’s ruling last week that the law was unconstitutional. An appeals court has since put that ruling on hold.

A wild black bear in Northern California made a meal out of a dead man's body last week when, upon discovering the man had died outside his trailer, the bear ate almost all of his body.

A man involved in the planning of the K-Pop concert where 16 were killed after falling through a grate in Seoul on Friday was found dead of an apparent suicide early Saturday morning, the AP reports. He had been questioned by the police about the incident on Friday and allegedly jumped from a 10-story building.

By the time it happened, I had considered us a pretty close group of friends. We’d all come from different pockets of the country—Maryland, New Jersey, Philly, New York, Los Angeles—but had arrived at Sproul Hall eager to be on our own for the first time.

Harry Wagner, managing director of the investment bank Allen & Company, doored a CitiBike cyclist on Sixth Avenue today, sending him off of his bike, then took off sprinting before the ambulance arrived, according to a Complex report.

A women's soccer coach at a Connecticut high school sent a 10-second Snapchat masturbation video to some of his players, state troopers told the Hartford Courant. The man says the jerk-off vid was intended for his girlfriend, but he inadvertently sent it to the high schoolers instead.

If you've spent most of Game of Thrones waiting for the moment when Sansa Stark finally gets to deliver a devastating kick to a Lannister or Frey's family jewels, please enjoy this. It might be as close as we ever get.

Sometime between Reconstruction, this episode of MTV: True Life, and the hundred-thousandth wedding held on a plantation in South Carolina, the term Southern Belle became just another friendly identifier to put in your Twitter bio, a throwaway regional label no weightier than Cali Surfer Dude. But the difference between SoCal pride and honoring your Southern gentility is that the latter celebrates the ugliest stain in America's history.

Jon "War Machine" Koppenhaver, the former mixed martial arts fighter arrested in August after allegedly beating his ex-girlfriend nearly to death, tried to commit suicide in his jail cell Tuesday night, CNN reports.

Fleeing for your life is the new staycation, and no one has made it look as fabulous as adopted Muscovites Edward Snowden and his state-sanctioned girlfriend, Lindsay Mills. Vogue is offering some advice on how the leaker's lady can attract as much attention as possible.

To cast aspersions on another man is as easy as casting sand upon the water. What are you doing there, alone at the seaside, casting sand upon the water? Some kind of pervert?

The University of Arizona's Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter was suspended this week for violating alcohol restrictions and allegedly hazing pledges. The frat hasn't managed to stay out of trouble since last year, when Jackass star Johnny Knoxville accused SAE of slipping him ecstasy during a Bad Grandpa screening. Now Knoxville feels bad they got suspended.

Bono, a cosmic warrior sent from the future to save us from rock songs that don't have the word "yeah" in them, has a habit of wearing really doofy-looking glasses. It turns out he wears them because of a disease. Who's the asshole now?

I've been trying to dislike Gone Girl ever since Mary Gaitskill wrote her hatchet job of a review in Bookforum last September. Gaitskill, whose female-focused fiction (of which I am a fan) is often lurid and lightless, called the book "frightening." "I felt I was reading something truly sick and dark—and in case you don't know, I'm supposedly sick and dark," she wrote.

Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group with ties to al-Qaeda waging war in Nigeria and responsible for the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls, has reportedly reached a ceasefire agreement with the Nigerian government. Discussions between the Nigerian government and the militants have included talks of releasing the girls, who have been in captivity for six months.

Fort Greene is one of the loveliest, and most expensive, neighborhoods in Brooklyn. It's the neighborhood that inspired Spike Lee's anti-gentrification rant earlier this year. Wealthy Fort Greene dog owners will not put up with homeless people, in the park.

"You may abandon your own body, but you must preserve your honor." - Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

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