A 43 year-old California man is missing after being swept out to sea during a baptism ceremony led by Jesus Christ Light of the Sky church.

Yesterday, the U.N. released a new report on climate change. Basically, we're fucked: According to the report, the damage from global warming is likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible" and will almost certainly lead to environmental and economic disaster, including widespread famine in the world's poorer countries.

[Supporters listen to a speech by Afghanistan's presidential candidate and former foreign minister Zalmai Rassoul during a campaign rally at a stadium in Herat, Afghanistan on Sunday. Image via AP]

Benzino—the would-be media mogul who founded The Source magazine and released a string of rap records before finding stardom on the VH1 reality show Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta—was shot on Saturday during his mother's funeral procession

The old "never work with children or animals" credo is true, even for babies.

Every kiss may begin with Kay, but now a ton of sexual discrimination lawsuits are beginning with Sterling, the largest retail jewelry company in the country.

A Dallas man who sent a resume, job application, and photograph of his penis to a Texas company didn't get the job offer, but he did get a misdemeanor charge for his trouble.

It's harder to get a job at Wal-Mart than it is to get into Harvard.

Students at a Houston college are complaining that they were forced to learn more than they wanted when their professor accidentally taught them a more advanced curriculum.

Actress Kate O'Mara, of Dynasty and Doctor Who fame, died today at a nursing home in Sussex, England. She was 74 years old.

Paris has elected its first-ever female mayor, the Spanish-born Socialist Anne Hidalgo, even as elsewhere in the country more right-wing candidates won their races. Hidalgo received 54.5 per cent of the vote.

Maria Bartiromo, CNBC's disgruntled "Money Honey" pioneer, jumped ship from CNBC in November, ending her twenty-year reign at the business news network. Lucky for her, she landed an anchor job just across the street at FOX Business, where she's the weekday host of "Opening Bell."

Cool Pope Francis confesses his sins in full view of cameras and attendant churchgoers. "At one point, the priest hearing his confession appeared to chuckle," the Associated Press reports. "Francis, solemn-faced, then rose and started hearing confessions himself." Image via AP Photo/L' Osservatore Romano.

Bill Murray is America's Coolest Dad. Here he is singing folk classic "House of the Rising Sun" and accompanying himself on the tambo. Thanks, TMZ!

The London Underground network's new Crossrail line, under construction since 2009, is the most expensive infrastructure project in Europe. Twenty-four billion dollars worth of high-speed rail spanning 73 miles and 37 stations across the city. Lots of spending and digging, obviously. An excavation crew even managed to dig up a mass grave filled with pottery and human rib cages.

Spanish newspaper El Mundo's Middle East correspondent Javier Espinosa (above, right) and photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova (above, left), kidnapped six months ago by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a radical Islamist group, have been freed.

Warner Brothers will adapt J.K. Rowling's wonderful extended Harry Potter-universe Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them into a trilogy of "megamovies," according to the New York Times. What is a megamovie? Who cares! "The stories, neither prequels or sequels, will start in New York about seven decades before the arrival of Mr. Potter and his pals."

"Gay men are widely considered by producers and group sales agents to be a reliable Broadway demographic," reports the New York Times.

Nationally treasured comedian Dave Chappelle is 40 years old and ready to give it another go. He's headlining a stand-up show at Radio City Music Hall in New York on June 19.

According to documents provided to Der Spiegel and The Intercept by Edward Snowden, the NSA kept a surveillance database on 122 world leaders—including Angela Merkel, on whom the agency obtained a secret court order to spy. The NSA's British equivalent, meanwhile, busied itself infiltrating three German Internet companies.