A student in Portsmouth, England named George Neal recently awoke to a living nightmare: 20,000 bees covering his Nissan Micra, which was parked outside of his home.

May 19 marks the 89th birthday of Malcolm X. In this essay, Edward Pittman reflects on how Malcolm X influenced his search for black identity and love during the late 1970s. This essay is excerpted from Pittman's memoir, Home Before Dark.

If you live in D.C., get ready for a a few weeks of racism skewed as advertising. Twenty D.C. Metrobuses will feature an advertising campaign that calls for an end to U.S. foreign aid in Islamic countries—accompanied by a picture of Hitler talking to an anti-Jewish Islamic leader during World War II.

Police in South Carolina say that a woman threatened to shoot everyone in a Burger King restaurant after she was served a stale cinnamon roll. (Shocking not only because of the obvious, but also because "stale cinnamon roll" is still a fairly appetizing phrase.)

Australians come together on this particular episode of BBC Radio 1's Innuendo Bingo, where guests are asked to take in water while they listen to earnest but salacious-sounding soundbites. The result? Everyone ends up covered in water, as the laughter is too hard to keep in.

I don't know why it's not working either, my man! Your technique is perfect!

The yearly Cannes Film Festival is off to what looks like a laid-back start, as Belgian actor Jérémie Renier shows what it must feel like to have a playful inner spirit in promoting the "smirking deification" biopic of Yves Saint Laurent, Saint Laurent. Image via AP/Joel Ryan.

Hyon Song-Wol, a North Korean singer said to be Kim Jong-Un's ex-girlfriend and reported to have been executed by firing squad last year, is said to have appeared on North Korean state television. She is apparently alive and well.

A swarm of unruly and confused honeybees took over a Topshop on Victoria Street in London yesterday afternoon, presumably looking for spring sales or to reassert the ferocity of Wu-Tang Clan. Beekeepers came to divert the bees elsewhere, away from retail.

A New York City cab driver was recently suspended by the Taxi and Limousine Commission for wearing a Nazi armband while driving his cab, a practice he believes is his right. "I'm a National Socialist — what you guys call a Nazi," he told CBS New York. "I am. I'm a believer of it."

A storm in central Bangladesh caused a loaded ferry to sink in the River Meghna near Munshiganj on Thursday after the ferry's captain reportedly didn't heed passengers' warnings to steer closer to shore. The bodies of 54 passengers have been found, while police fear over 100 bodies are still unaccounted for.

Scientists in Argentina have uncovered the bones of a creature believed to be the world's biggest dinosaur. The big guy would have weighed 77 metric tons, seven heavier than the previous record holder, the Argentinosaurus. Truly a sad day to be the ghost of an Argentinosaurus.

Brett Bouchard, a teenager whose arm was severed from the elbow down while cleaning a pasta machine at a restaurant in Massena, N.Y. last month, has had his arm successfully reattached.

During a rain-drenched Red Sox-Tigers game at Boston's Fenway Park last night, a 22-year-old woman fell down an elevator shaft onto the roof of the elevator's second floor when the fourth floor shaft doors opened, according to the Boston Fire Department.

Following last month's botched lethal injection in Oklahoma, a lawmaker in Utah says he wants to bring back death by firing squad — "the most humane way to kill somebody," he believes — as an option for those sentenced to death in his state.

Teens. Always rolling their eyes and making magical pyramids out of fiberglass resin, crystals, and metal shavings in an effort to protect themselves from the negative energies emitted by cell towers. A tale as old as time (itself a construct invented by humans unable to comprehend the concept of eternity).

Mike Barnicle—who is a confirmed fabricator and plagiarist, as well as being a toxic race-baiter and a suck-up to a psychopathic murderer—wants to share the word that this week's trouble at the New York Times is "an embarrassment to journalism."

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with local workers at the Dupont Circle Shake Shack on Friday in Washington, DC. Obama and Biden met with the workers to discuss increasing investment in re-building America's infrastructure. Image via Alex Wong/Getty Images.

In 2008, Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles Times columnist, asked: "What happened to the days when public education was not just valued, but was seen as a great equalizer in American society, offering a pathway to upward mobility for even the least fortunate students?"

Professional runner/yeller Billy Eichner is on the street again, hosting a quiz show where, if you don't know the answer, you can ask a squirter. It'll just be a few seconds while you both start running down the street yelling at strangers until you find one.