Principal photography for Star Wars Episode VII has been underway at London's Pinewood Studios since location shooting in Abu Dhabi wrapped up in May. The next installment of Star Wars is not being filmed at Frankfurt Airport, but that didn't stop this fake, fan-made video from getting more than a million YouTube views.

BBC is instructing its editors and producers to stop striving for "false balance" by booking so many anti-science and climate-denying commentators. "Audiences should be able to understand from the context and clarity of the BBC's output what weight to give to critical voices," a company report stated.

For those of you who missed it—it was timed to be missed—late this past Thursday afternoon, while America was already drunk on vodka-infused watermelon, the Supreme Court quietly granted an injunction to Wheaton College, a Christian liberal arts college, temporarily allowing it to avoid the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, shadowy leader of the jihadist group that's taken over much of Iraq and self-appointed leader of the world's Muslims, made an unprecedented public appearance at the beginning of last week—and was promptly criticized for being a sheikh with a chic fashion watch.

In a bid to distract from its nuclear weapons program, North Korea announced it will send cheerleaders to South Korea. The DPRK has done this only a handful of times since the Korean War, always in attempts to ease tensions between the two Koreas. The cheerleaders will travel with athletes to the Asian Games in Incheon this September.

Reliable Sources anchor Brian Stelter: “I will eat my remote control—in fact, I will eat my copy of the New York Post—if Murdoch becomes the owner of CNN.”

In the August issue of Lucky Magazine, a publication where teenage girls shop for jean shorts and Keds, singer Solange Knowles finally "addresses" her scuffle with brother-in-law and rapper Jay Z. The singer describes the brawl as "that thing."

Hollywood polymath James Franco's first published poetry collection, Directing Herbert White, is headed for bookshelves, and early reviews indicate that Franco is continuing his campaign to troll everyone and see how long it takes the world to catch on.

A crocodile with a human name in Australia attacked his handler this week during a feeding show. Trent Burton eventually managed to get loose from the twelve-foot crocodile, whose name is John, and escaped with only minor injuries.

"It's better to tag somewhere that already looks like crap," and other tips for not getting arrested for graffiti in New York City.

A fireworks outlet in Tennessee self-destructed shortly after the biggest day of the year for colorful explosions in the sky, exploding and burning to the ground in one last sad display before the long wait until New Year's Eve.

When blessed with one of the most moving natural vistas on the face of the earth, the entrepreneurial heroes of America can be relied upon to do the right thing: build a bunch of crap around it to ruin the view. For $$$!

Last Week Tonight was on hiatus due to the Fourth of July, but that didn't stop John Oliver from reporting the biggest U.S. news story of the weekend: Fireworks. Although it would, of course, be physically impossible for Oliver to have attended every fireworks show in the U.S. this weekend, he covered them all anyway.

Pope Francis met with six victims of sex abuse in the Catholic Church on Monday. Before the meeting, the pope's first with victims of sexual abuse and the first any pope has held at the Vatican, Francis reportedly begged for forgiveness during a private mass.

Though famine still takes its toll on the unfortunates across the sea, the greatest nation in the world has transcended such concerns. Here, our Statue of Liberty's upraised torch beckons with the message: In America, our appetizers are endless.

Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed nine Hamas militants early Monday morning. Later Monday, Hamas promised Israel "will pay a tremendous price" for the strikes. The attacks in part targeted rocket launchers, after Hamas militants in Gaza fired rockets into Israel over the weekend.

At around 1:15 a.m. today, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority police officers opened fire on a Hummer driving on the Verrazano Bridge. There were no injuries, and the driver fled on foot.

A woman jumps from a fountain and into the crowd during the kickoff of the 2014 San Fermin running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain. The eight days of bull runs and late-night parties start Monday in the city. Image by Andres Kudacki via AP.

A wedding hall operator in Japan forked over $5,400 for a bunch of 30 Ruby Roman grapes, which are apparently the most expensive grapes in the world. These grapes, the wedding hall says, will be served to couples who have their weddings at the venue in Kanazawa. It is unclear if couples would be allowed to eat the grapes of if they will just be permitted to look at them.

One of the more popular floats at this year's Fourth of July parade in Norfolk, Neb. was of a ghoulish, skeletal figure propped up against an outhouse that had ""OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY" emblazoned on the side. According to the committee that approved the float for the parade, it was purely "political satire."