Officials have extended the search for missing Flight 370 to the Indian Ocean, in part because of reports that the plane possibly turned west and flew for hours after losing contact with air traffic control.

There are no cream-colored garments on display at the ENK Children's Club international kids' clothing exhibition when I visit the Javits Convention Center in Hell's Kitchen Tuesday morning, except in those booths whose entire stock is made up of rompers in varying shades of eggshell, ecru, and ivory.

A witness to the car crash that killed actor Paul Walker last November is selling a few things he looted from the accident scene, including "a soiled pair of Maui Jim sunglasses" that Walker was wearing when he died.

The Mississippi man who woke up two weeks ago in a funeral home's body bag as he was about to be embalmed is actually dead now, reportedly.

[From Tim Barber's Instagram]

This past January, Curtis Reeves, a former Tampa police officer, shot and killed a man who refused to stop texting during a matinee showing of Lone Survivor. As it turns out, Reeves was texting from the same theater just before his deadly confrontation with the man.

An Oklahoma City Fox station ran a teaser for its nightly newscast during the premiere of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's reboot of Cosmos. No big deal, except that it interrupted Tyson's only mention of evolution in the entire episode.

In light of certain arguments currently taking place on the internet, we would like to issue a gentle reminder of a fact: Twitter is public.

Five people are still missing after yesterday's gas explosion in East Harlem. The death toll from the blast now stands at seven, with more than 70 injured. Two people remain in critical condition, including a 15-year-old boy.

The other day, Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the Guardian that he’d like to discuss a new “Magna Carta” for the internet. “Magna Carta” is a headline gloss; what the inventor of the world wide web really wants, he says, is a bill of rights—some new document that addresses “principles of privacy, free speech and responsible anonymity":

We now live in a world without voiceover legend Hal Douglas, whose distinctive baritone added drama to the movie trailers for everything from Forrest Gump to Con Air. Douglas passed away Friday at age 89, due to complications from pancreatic cancer.

A coalition of McDonald's workers today announced that they're filing several class action McLawsuits against the company for "forcing them to work off the clock, shaving hours off their time cards and not paying them overtime."

This Thursday, Colin Powell took to Facebook to brag about being way ahead of his time. "I was doing selfies 60 years before you Facebook folks," he wrote. "Eat your heart out Ellen!"

"...We are an organization that conducts our charitable activity directly, and we fund our own work. We are not a grant-maker that funds the work of other charities, and were never intended to be." - Lady Gaga's mom, Cynthia Germanotta, hitting back at criticism on the allocation of Born This Way Foundation's funds

Arnold Schwarzenegger, you've finally achieved your lifelong dream of owning an M47 Patton tank! What are you going to do next? Use that tank to crush some shit on video? OK, cool.

Don't worry, Ukraine. Jared Leto's got this under control.

"Williamsburg," an upscale lifestyle brand named after a long-lost neighborhood in Brooklyn, long ago outgrew its apocryphal status as a home to underpaid fauxhemians and became home to wall-to-wall overpaid yuppies. Thankfully, there is more space in Williamsburg for rich people than ever before.

New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission has had it with these motherfucking snakes in its motherfucking cabs. A YouTube prankster could lose his hack license after freaking out passengers with a rented python.

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"Regulators are starting to ask: Is there something rotten in bank culture?" Hmmm. In unrelated news, "The average bonus on Wall Street jumped 15 percent last year to the highest level since the 2008 financial crisis."