Afshan Azad, who plays Padma Patil in the popular film series, was reportedly attacked at her Manchester home by family members. Her father and brother appeared in court yesterday and were charged with threatening to kill the 22-year-old college student.

Portland police have re-opened their investigation into the alleged sexual assault of masseuse Molly Hagerty by Vice President Al Gore.

Crystal Gail Magnum, the woman who falsely accused members of the Duke lacrosse team of raping her, held a crazy press conference in her yard today to announce that new charges against her—of arson and attempted murder—are false.

We hope you haven't already made up your mind about the rightness or wrongness of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates' arrest in his own home. Because after a full year, a Cambridge "blue-ribbon" panel has issued a worthless, wishy-washy review!

Jin Hua Cui, a 44-year-old Queens woman, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with running a sex slavery ring. Her alleged victims were young Korean women, forced into prostitution at massage parlors on Long Island.

Tutankhamen's penis is missing! Maybe you think it was the victim of a "brutal autopsy"? Or, if you're conspiracy-minded, you think someone removed it because it was "under-developed"? Either way, you're thinking about a mummy's penis. [New Scientist]

A pack of robbers armed with baseball bats beat and robbed 60-year-old Geoffrey McDonald (of the McFlurry McDonalds) and his wife in their villa in the south of France. Why did they have a villa there?

What a purrrrfect crime! A New York woman is on a cat burglary spree in the city, robbing several stores of nearly $600, all while wearing a cat mask. She is 5'6" and believed to be named Selina Kyle. [NYP]

David London, the NYPD cop filmed beating a veteran, was acquitted on all charges.

Anarchist mobs protesting the G-20 summit smashed and looted stores in Toronto last weekend. One of their targets: American Apparel. A tipster sent us these photos of the demolished AA store—one more after the jump.

Santa Monica is currently being terrorized by an alleged environmentally conscious sex offender. (Not Al Gore.) The Bike-by groper! According to police, he "has been riding his bicycle by females and grabbing their bums, crotch and breasts." Stop it. [LAWeekly]

Earlier this week, prosecutors released portions of a video showing NYPD cop David London beating the hell out of Army veteran Walter Harvin. Now the full video's been released (below). It clearly shows Harvin being beaten after being handcuffed.

A man wearing only underwear and a shirt stole a delivery truck and led police on a car chase through Brooklyn on Thursday, hitting two 12-year-old girls before finally crashing. Also: He ate "leaves straight from tree branches."

Turns out the most depressing things sold at Walmart aren't found inside the store. A couple allegedly offered to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 to two strangers in a Salinas, California Walmart parking lot.

Following today's post on a man who said, "Leave me alone," then disappeared into his bedroom for four years—only to be found dead there this week—Dutch speakers translated more on the tale that has the Netherlands in uproar.

Any mystery about why tech companies feel free to plunder, lose and even illegally appropriate your personal data should be cleared up by observing how lightly the Federal Trade Commission spanked Twitter for losing control of 35 high-profile accounts.

It was a crime of infinite ridiculousness: Dressed in a sumo wrestling suit, Sandra Talbot assaulted her ex-girlfriend with her own girth and a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, vengeance for flirting with a man dressed as giant Snickers bar.

"Don't bother going to a voodoo priest. He can't help you. Don't bother calling Obama. He can't help you, either. Just give us money, or we will kill the girl."—Haitian rapist/ kidnappers' demands. Life's really not fair. [NYT]

Prosecutors are now going after the assets of two of Bernie Madoff's "back office" staffers, who oversaw the day-to-day operations of his scam. They handled office paperwork, and they're both multimillionaires? Guilty. Also—you guys seen $9 billion anywhere? [WSJ]

Although two robbers on a motorcycle have a sword to defend themselves, these Chinese townspeople come to a victim's defense with all sorts of makeshift street tactics.