If you are a human who has successfully survived past the age of 30, chances are you've experienced lower back pain, a condition brought on by excessive sitting, standing, inactivity, or moving. A new study says: there is no relief.

Joseph H. Carl was driving home from a bar in Gainesville, Fla. Tuesday when he rear-ended a car that was stopped at a red light. Drunk and enraged, he got out of his pickup truck and began banging on the windows of the vehicle he'd just hit. If only he'd remembered to put it in park first.

According to a report from the U.N., ISIS — the Sunni militant group taking control of Iraq and Syria — has ordered women and girls in Mosul to undergo genital mutilation. This fatwa potentially affects 4 million women and girls.

At least 18 children were killed this morning after a train hit their school bus at an unmanned crossing in the Indian state of Telangana. Twenty more children are in the hospital — 15 of them in critical condition. The bus driver was also killed.

An Air Algerie plane flying from Burkina Faso to Algeria disappeared from radar last night with 110 passengers and six crew members on board. The plane was likely flying over Mali when it went missing.

Donald Trump digs as part of the groundbreaking ceremony for his $200 million Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. The hotel will transform the 115-year-old Old Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue for a projected 2016 opening. Image via AP.

Haris Suleman, 17, died after his single-engine plane crashed near American Samoa early Wednesday. His father, Babar, was also on the plane with his son, and remains missing at sea. The two were attempting to fly around the world in 30 days to break a record and to raise money for a nonprofit that builds schools in rural Pakistan.

"I noticed a dead deer on the side of the 28th st exit off 83 last evening. Saw the same deer again tonight with graffiti all over it. Lol." — @DrRockt0pus

Duff Watson claims that he and his two daughters were forced off their Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis after he tweeted a complaint about the agent at the gate. Only after all three had exited the plane and the agent watched Watson delete the tweet were they allowed back on the plane. The agent apparently told him that his tweet constituted a security threat.

Joseph Rudolph Wood's execution in Arizona on Wednesday afternoon took nearly two hours after the lethal injection began. His lawyers, claiming that their client was gasping and snorting for an hour, filed an emergency appeal to have the execution stopped. Wood died before a court could act.

Three women were arrested and two more are being sought in connection to an alleged financing conspiracy for the extremist Muslim group al Shabaab, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The women arrested today were allegedly the heads of a network of mostly women that would funnel money to the insurgents in Somalia and Kenya disguised as donations to orphans and other philanthropic causes.

The NYPD technically bans itself from using chokeholds on suspects, but in practice its officers have a demonstrated history of ignoring that rule. It became clear this past weekend when a Staten Island man named Eric Garner was killed after being choked by two officers, and now a new video has surfaced showing two more using the same maneuver.

A curious kid has reportedly been banned from a Monroe, Conn., donut shop because he asked another customer whether she was pregnant. She was not. She was just in a donut shop.

You're looking at the face of a guilty bear. Cute and innocent though it may appear, last night, the villain shown above burglarized a pool deck in Central Florida, in search of the only things thirsty bears ever really want: beer and/or daiquiri mix.

Finally, there are answers to the question that inevitably comes up when I watch Little Women L.A. with someone else and one of the cast's average-sized boyfriend's comes on screen: How do they...you know?

John Walsh looks and sounds like a senator. The Democrat, who replaced retiring Max Baucus earlier this year and is running for reelection this fall, leans on his 33-year as a decorated combat soldier. But like a senator, he may have cheated and stolen to keep that career on track.

Chris Pratt, the Guardians of the Galaxy star who will always be Parks and Rec's earnest Andy in our hearts, is probably sick to death of answering questions about his physical transformation into a superhero. But just when he's about to fall asleep mid-interview, someone brings him an intern's hair and asks him to French-braid it.

We've been getting a lot of tips lately, which makes sense because we are seemingly pleading for them. Some of them are good, and of course most are bad and you should be ashamed, but lately, what with the Brooklyn Bridge being adorned by two new white flags, you're showing a different side to you, friends of Gawker: a theorist side.

Reuters reports that Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal is ready for a cease-fire in Gaza. But he says his acceptance of any proposal depends on an end to Israeli attacks. He also wants to open Gaza's borders and end the seven-year blockade by Israel and Egypt.

Is platinum-certified, platinum-haired Australian rapper Iggy Azalea a racist, or a harmless drag queen? Is she a racist drag queen? Are all drag queens racists? Are all racists drag queens? Who knows! Well, one man does, certainly: Roots drummer/author/curator Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson. Questlove is just about the wisest music expert pop culture currently has, and in an interview with TIME, he weighs in on the woman who has set so many social-justice-inclined fingers aflutter this summer.