[Designer Karl Lagerfeld and his very threatening posse picked a fight during the finale of Chanel's ready-to-wear show in Paris today. Image via AP]

Paul Greenwood has fallen on hard times. Convicted of a $553 million fraud last year, the former hedge fund manager has no choice but to auction his $1.9 million collection of antique teddy bears at Christie's. [Bloomberg, NYMag]

In Bell, California, America's most corrupt town, the farcical stories of civic corruption don't stop just because most of the elected officials there were arrestedl. There's so much more to learn about! Like the "disabled" police chief's exercise habit.

The Hungarian government is calling a toxic sludge spill there an "ecological disaster" and has declared a state of emergency after three people were killed and over 100 injured when a reservoir at an alumina plant ruptured. Six are missing.

The 33 trapped Chilean miners may be catching a break, after rescuers said they have only 524 feet left to drill before reaching the men. Original estimates had the miners being rescued around Christmas. Just in time, too. [BBC; AP]

Vietnam's ruling communist party isn't too psyched about the idea of its citizens using Facebook and other social networking sites. So they've made their own: It's called go.vn, and you need your government-issued I.D. number to sign up.

[A South Korean policeman breaks stone plates with his head during a demonstration for a successful G20 Seoul Summit. The G20 summit will be held in Seoul from November 11 to 12. Pic via AP.]

This is Senior U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp Jr., former chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Atlanta. He just got arrested for buying coke, weed, and prescription painkillers. From a stripper.

[This Elvis impersonator was one of the people who came to say goodbye to Tony Curtis today at the star's funeral in Las Vegas. Image via AP]

Constantly masturbating hobbit-witch Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Senate candidate, knows all too much about China, and she doesn't trust them one lick. During a primary debate for her 2006 Senate run, for example, she warned: "They've got something up their sleeve."

British scientist Robert Edwards, who created the first test tube baby in 1978, has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

So we finally read the long New York Times Magazine profile of babbling television person Glenn Beck. At this point, it's hard to remember what crazy shit about the guy we already knew. Here's a quick look at it.

The State Department has issued an alert urging Americans in Europe to be "vigilant about possible terrorist attacks" planned by Al Qaeda. It's hard because in America you at least know everyone who speaks a foreign language is a terrorist.

New York Governor David Paterson is leaving office soon, and he's already apologizing for screwing people over. But it wasn't all his fault, because "It's really hard to think of what you want to do when you are still working."

In exchange for support in trimming the nation's deficit, the Dutch government bowed to fascist politician Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party yesterday, by agreeing to ban burqas in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, he's still on trial for inciting racial hatred.

[About 300 New Yorkers broke the world record for "world's largest strength training workout using resistance bands" in the middle of Seventh Avenue this morning. Image via AP]

There's no chance that Hillary Clinton will challenge Barack Obama in a 2012 primary. None! Stop thinking this. But Gallup has polled it anyway, and finds Obama leading her 52% to 37%. It's bad news for a certain Chicago dentist.

In your disastrous Thursday media column: Philip Falcone cannot stop the media, a media reporter job is open now, a newspaper wants to see your tats, and the Boston Globe and Philly Inquirer are total wrecks, in separate ways.

Tony Curtis, the Bronx-born actor and onetime heartthrob, star of The Defiant Ones and Some Like It Hot, and father of Jamie Lee Curtis, has died at the age of 85. His movie career spanned nearly six decades. [NYT]

A Pakistani boy salvaged a window from his home after flooding in Dadu district, southern Pakistan. The UN says flooding there has left 8 million people homeless and 12 million in need of emergency food aid. [Dawn; Image via AP]