Early Thursday morning, a driver fleeing police crashed into a crowd of people at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, killing two and injuring 23 others.

U.S. investigators believe missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may have flown for an additional four hours after it reached final known location, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. If the reports are true, the plane could have traveled another 2,200 nautical miles, giving it time to reach Pakistan, the Indian Ocean, or the Arabian Sea.

Elusive British street artist Banksy, whose art showed up in a number of places in New York last fall, is scheduled to widely share new art on the third anniversary of the Syrian Civil War over the next few days.

At least 73 people are being treated for injuries in local hospitals following an explosion in East Harlem this morning. Seven have died and authorities have identified three women among the dead, Griselde Camacho, 44, Carmen Tanco, 67, and Rosaura Hernandez-Barrios, 22.

After a recent visit from the BBC News Magazine crew, Jonathan the Seychelles tortoise of St. Helena Island seemed young and spry and happy for rejuvenated press attention, as he may die literally any day now. He is 182 years old.

After a London Zoo awareness event called Streak for Tigers took place this past August, the good will of a dozen or so naked runners has apparently worked wonders for preservation. Last month, Melati, a rare Sumatran tiger at the ZSL London Zoo, gave birth to three cubs. There are less than 300 Sumatran tigers left on Earth.

Taking a page out of the American Renaming Shit Because Your Shit Sucks Book of Pettiness, the EU has moved forward with a motion to prohibit Americans from using traditionally European names for cheeses like Parmesan, feta, and Gorgonzola. No skin off our massively engorged cheese wheel, buds.

If you're looking for a way to peak your heart rate today, Denver area drug suspect Ryan Stone had the city rapt this morning when he led police officers in a three-car carjacking, one which included an unattended four-year-old boy.

A U.K. newspaper has issued an important correction about the fate of humanity in the 21st century: It's not going to be faced with a catastrophic war against goats.

Tina Fey confirms that there is no Mean Girls sequel on the way: "We're going to see if there's any way to get everyone together [for the movie's 10th anniversary], but not a movie, sadly. We're all past high school age." By "sadly," I think she means, "thankfully."

Today the Urban Institute released an exciting report with a somewhat less-than-exciting title: "Estimating the Size and Structure of the Underground Commercial Sex Economy in Eight Major US Cities." And man, is it a fascinating read.

The Chinese government has released satellite images of three floating pieces of debris that are believed to be from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight. The photos, taken on March 9, show the suspected wreckage in the South China Sea, just southeast of where Flight 370's transponder turned off.

Well, that escalated quickly. The "First Kiss" video has gone from work of art to viral advertising to subject of a handjob parody video in the space of a day.

Early Saturday morning, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 vanished from radar screens and lost contact with air traffic control. Five days later, the plane is still missing. Here's what we (don't) know:

News has emerged that Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation could be a mere vanity project. Have you ever? Can you even? (No, you can't. You either already tweeted or are just about to tweet, "I can't with this," about this.) We all can collectively gasp while secretly saying, "Yaaaaaas," in our heads regarding Gaga's latest endeavor in hot messery.

After Chris Christie's decline in popularity, "The establishment is now looking for another favorite," says political strategist Greg Valliere of the 2016 Republican presidential nomination race. "And by the establishment, I mean Wall Street."

Is opinion writing dead? Is there even such a thing as "opinion writing," or is it just a concept that you impose on things? ("You.") ("Things.") Maybe you are reading these words but to your reality they are words about lawn care or asteroids. Maybe the words are reading you, did you ever think? (["Think."])

Having solved the problem of marriage equality for same-sex couples with his Grammy-nominated song "Same Love," great humanitarian Macklemore now turns his attention to another crucial social issue: Guys who pee on toilet seats.

A new report from a coalition of public health groups accuses Marlboro of purposely targeting teenagers with marketing campaigns around the world, so that the teens will become smokers, and later die of smoking-related illness. Mean.

This is a 6-minute video made up mostly of B-roll of Manhattan apartments exteriors, and you should watch it anyway.