Australia has formally denied Chris Brown’s visa application to tour in that country on character grounds, the Guardian reports.

Here’s your daily affirmation that it’s not good to be Chris Brown—according to the AP, a group of armed, masked men broke into the singer’s home last night and seriously terrorized his poor aunt.

On Friday, Chris Brown added “shitty friend” to his considerable list of achievements in the field of assholery, sharing a hateful meme on Instagram that referred to the recently transitioned Caitlyn Jenner as a “science project.”

According to reports, Chris Brown broke his (personal best?) year-and-a-half streak of not assaulting anyone when he allegedly punched a man in Vegas this weekend.

With songs like "Back to the Crib" and "Wet the Bed," Chris Brown has long alluded to his desire to become a parent, but a new report from TMZ says the singer got his wish a full nine months ago, siring a beautiful baby girl.

Chris Brown, an emphatic "fuck you" from God to humanity, involuntarily turtled up on stage when five people were shot during a San Jose nightclub appearance early Sunday morning. Now he's voluntarily turtling up in life by refusing to play any clubs he deems "too hood," TMZ reports.

Five people were shot early Sunday morning at a San Jose nightclub where Chris Brown was making an appearance, SF Gate reports. All are expected to survive, so it seems fair to say none came to more harm than Brown's already limited dignity.

Unlike some other pop stars, here's one who actually has the goods.

Justin Bieber posted the photo above on Instagram early this morning, which features him "choking" Chris Brown against a wall. "Had fun with the homey @chrisbrownofficial," Bieber writes, and he probably did! Lots of laughs. It looks like the two enjoyed a sushi date before play-fighting.

A is for Asshole. Chris Brown is an asshole. Even if we summon all of the self-control needed to ignore his violent, petulant, destructive, unrepentant, homophobic conduct, and focus on his music, his on-record persona is consistently dickheaded in a way that is out-of-step with the contrived redemption arc devised to promote his new album X.

Perhaps you've noticed that Chris Brown has been walking around wearing a new chain recently. Some blogs have reported that this nice piece of jewelry bears a striking resemblance to a necklace Rihanna once kissed in a mysterious undated black-and-white photograph. Could Brown be sending secret signals about his love to/for Rihanna?

A decade or so ago, the NYPD copped to having a so-called "Hip-Hop Police" force that kept tabs on all the rich and famous black men just itching to commit all types of heinous crimes in New York City. That force still reportedly exists, but now it keeps its eye on people like Drake and Chris Brown.

Chris Brown is not a rapper. Though he does rap sometimes, he is primarily a singer, and should be identified as such in the same way that Charles Manson should be identified as a cult leader/criminal and not a musician/dude with sweet moves, and that Bugs Bunny should be identified as a talking rabbit and not a drag queen. But people continue to write "rapper Chris Brown..." which seems assumptive to the point of being oh, hmmm, what's the word? Oh yeah, racist!

TMZ reports former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight was shot six times at a Chris Brown-hosted party at a nightclub in West Hollywood early Sunday morning.

Celebrity domestic abuser Chris Brown was released from jail Monday morning. Brown, famous for punching people in the face, was serving time for punching a man in the face last October. Brown, who also sings, was originally ordered to enter rehab, but was jailed in May after refusing to submit to a drug test.

Since Thursday, Chris Brown has been on a never-ending cross-country tour of American jail cells, racking up miles on the notorious, prisoner-preferred "Con Air" flight.

After his arrest this weekend for misdemeanor simple assault, Chris Brown has decided to go to rehab. According to a statement given to E! News, Chris Brown has “elected to enter a rehab facility.” His goal for rehab is to “gain focus and insight into his past and recent behavior, enabling him to continue the pursuit of his life and his career from a healthier vantage point.”

The felony assault charge against Chris Brown has been reduced to a misdemeanor. He is required to stay 100 yards away from his accuser and has been released without bail. Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband.

Chris Brown made it down to our nation's capital this weekend, and what did he do? Tour the White House? Check out the monuments? Debate the intricacies of DC pizza versus New York and LA?