Newnham College, one of the women-only colleges of Cambridge, has uncovered an exam-time chocolate-smuggling ring operating out of the college library. A mysterious book found during a stock check had been hollowed out and filled with two hidden candy bars.

After defeating Argentina 1-0 in a dramatic World Cup finale, pop star Rihanna celebrated her championship with a slew of unrecognizable German men. I have no idea who any of these people are but they look very happy for Rihanna, who took home her first ever World Cup with a sparkling goal in the 113th minute.

Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai is in Nigeria this week to celebrate her 17th birthday with a very specific wish: to bring back the over 200 missing girls who were taken from their school by Boko Haram militants in April.

Avid consumers of BuzzFeed’s entertaining and informative listicles have noticed something strange: Their favorite ones have disappeared. Where did they go?

A new report from the New York Times elaborates on what became painfully evident after two recent deaths on Rikers Island: New York's most notorious prison is a violent, terrifying place, especially for people with mental illnesses.

The guy who tried to steal Germany's World Cup spotlight by streaking across the field during yesterday's final is actually Russian YouTube prankster Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, also known as Vitalyzd.

Two weeks ago, XO Jane published an essay by a woman who told of being sexually harassed in high school by a teacher who touched her and flirted with her. Now, the incident has become a full blown scandal at one of L.A.'s most prestigious private day schools.

Defense officials said late Sunday that former Taliban POW Bowe Berdahl will return to active duty as early as today. According to a report from The New York Times, Berdahl will live in the barracks and take a job at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where he's been in therapy the past few weeks.

According to the BBC, the much-laureled writer Nadine Gordimer has died at her home in Johannesburg at the age of 90.

If all you know about President Warren G. Harding is how quickly he died after taking office, prepare for some presidential trivia you'll never be able to unhear. Harding's love letters—or, as John Oliver puts it, "smutty fuck notes"—to his neighbor's wife are a treasure trove of pillowing breasts, fevered fondling, and penis nicknames.

At yet another public appearance on his tour of Colorado and Texas, President Obama fist bumped a BBQ cashier in response to the cashier's quip about gay rights. "It was just a lucky day to be the register girl," cashier Daniel Rugg Webb told The Austin Chronicle later.

Has your child had trouble at school? Have you tried tutoring, extra homework time, and everything else you can think of, with little improvement? Relax. According to the latest research, your kid's fate is already sealed.

A three-year-old Filipino girl pronounced dead last week did a strange thing at her funeral ceremony yesterday: she woke up.

Every once in a while, the internet gets it shit together and actually does something worthwhile for the world. This week presents one such an occasion, with the news that the brutal pre-teen metal band Unlocking the Truth landed a $1.8 million record deal from Sony.

The cruise ship Costa Concordia, which wrecked in 2012 killing 32 people, is floating again off the coast of Italy's Giglio Island. Thanks to a salvage operation that's cost more than 1 billion euro so far, the ship is now floating three feet above the undersea platform it had been resting on for the past year.

A Kashmiri woman looks from behind curtains in Srinagar, India, Sunday. A strike was called by separatist groups in observance of Martyrs' Day, held in honor of the 22 Kashmiri Muslims executed by the order of Maharaja Hari Singh in 1931. Photo by Mukhtar Khan via AP.

A new piece in Italian newspaper La Repubblica purportedly quotes Pope Francis saying that one in 50 Roman Catholic priests, about two percent, are pedophiles. Vatican officials, however, question the provenance of the quotes and information in the story.

Twenty-seven-year-old Freddie Alexander Smoke III (really!) is accused of having started the wildfire that has burned nearly six miles of land in Northern California. According to the California Department of Fire and Forestry Protection, exhaust from the truck Smoke was driving around an illegal marijuana farm ignited a patch of dry grass.

Hally Yust, nine, of Spring Hill, Kan., died after contracting an infection—called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis—that develops from the rare "brain-eating" Naegleria fowleri amoeba found in warm freshwater lakes and rivers. According to the Center for Disease Control, there have been fewer than 200 reported cases of the infection in the U.S. in the past five decades.

A brave human went ahead and asked famed on-set drama queen Katherine Heigl—who was hobnobbing to promote her new NBC show, State of Affairs, as part of the Television Critics Association's summer press tour—whether she considered herself (and her mother-manager) difficult to work with. She doesn't.