An appeals court upheld the dismissal of a $3 million lawsuit an elderly Upper East Side woman filed against Starbucks after spilling hot tea on herself and suffering serious burns. But can we sue people for ridiculous ornate coffee orders?

Today in bombs: new and skeery details about just how close those Yemeni mail bombs came to blowing up. Plus: new and skeery details on the Greek anarchist mail bombers. It's bomb week. Love it or else.

The BBC's Editorial Complaints Unit has found that a report from the news service wrongly implied that Bob Geldof's 1985 Band Aid tune "Do They Know It's Christmas" funded armed rebel groups in Etiopia. The BBC has issued an apology.

[A federal agent crawls through the 600 yard tunnel found in a warehouse on the U.S.-Mexico border. It contained a complex ventilation and railway system, and 30 tons of pot. Image via AP]

South Carolina Democratic mystery candidate Alvin Greene, despite not really campaigning, fundraising, hiring a staff, or explaining who he is, still got 360,000 votes for Senate last night. How does this compare with candidates nationwide who gave a shit?

Sean "The Lumberjack" Duffy, who was on The Real World's 1997 Boston edition, won the race for the U.S. House seat from Wisconsin's 7th District. The first reality star elected to Congress is a Republican. Who would have guessed?

Police intercepted a mail bomb intended for Italian prez Silvio Berlusconi last night, the 14th mail bomb this week "linked to a far-Left [Greek] urban guerrilla group, the Conspiracy in the Cells of Fire." Greece has suspended all outgoing airmail.

Some guy got all excited after learning that Republican Martha Roby won the 2nd Congressional race in Montgomery, Alabama. He probably feels awesome about this picture, too. [Image via AP]

Is there anything better on Election Night than watching campaign workers and fervent supporters freak out? It's like a thousand Superbowls, all attended only by total dorks and elderly people. Come check out some of the night's best reactions:

The reign of Barack Obama ends tonight! What? Oh, it's just Congress and governors and stuff. Let's keep liveblogging. Republicans have already won the House, but can they take the Senate? An unemployed nation waits.

[Chicago voters arrive at an unconventional polling station located in a laundromat today. No word on if they elected darks or whites. Image via AP]

Last week, the Yemeni mail bombs. Today, letter bombs exploded outside the Swiss and Russian embassies in Greece; a dozen coordinated bombs killed 63 in Baghdad; and a letter bomb was found in the German chancellor's mail room. Democracy flourishes.

In Bell, California—America's Most Corrupt Little Town—the corruption revelations never cease, ever! Today: the City of Bell operated a protection racket on city businesses, stealing money at will. Nice work, guys.

U.S. officials say that militants in Yemen sent several test packages through the mail last September as a "dry run" for last week's foiled international mail bomb plot. Of course, they've been wrong about these things before.

American Idol host and sexually perplexing Ken doll Ryan Seacrest is interviewing President Obama tomorrow. He's crowdsourcing interview questions on his Facebook page. Let's see what his followers came up with.

Austria's "incest monster" Josef Fritzl—who used his daughter as a baby-bearing dungeon sex slave for 24 years—just gave his first jailhouse interview: "I hate hairdressers more than dentists." And: "My favorite show is Two and a Half Men."

Results from a new survey suggest that a majority of women (in Britain) believe that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is the most influential woman in the world. She even beat out Oprah! (What?) And Mother Teresa.

Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano erupted again today — the biggest one yet — for several hours but no injuries were reported. Mount Merapi is one of 22 volcanoes being closely monitored for increased activity. Indonesia just can't catch a break.

[Cranes flying south for the winter, at sunset in Germany. Photo via AP.]

Dilma Rousseff, the Worker's Party candidate for President of Brazil, defeated opponent Jose Serra of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party with 56 percent of the vote, becoming Brazil's first female president. Not bad for a former guerilla fighterformer guerilla fighter.