The Daily Mail started a burgeoning trend for bizarre teen drink-related scare stories when they wildly exaggerated featured "vodka eyeballing." Now Gothamist ask if teens pooping in each others' soda cans is next for the 'shocking expose' treatment.

You think trend pieces in American newspapers are shabby? Try Britain's The Daily Mail — they specialize in scaring gullible suburban parents with stories like today's ridiculous and disingenuous 'expose' on drinking vodka through your eyes.

Every toilet on a British Airways flight from England to the Cayman Islands filled up. Passengers were told not to drink. Crashing into the sea is not the worst thing that can happen during a trans-Atlantic flight. Happy Sunday! [DailyMail]

A while back we alerted you to a study that the Daily Mail reported suggested turning on the light during a late-night trip to the bathroom causes cancer. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that this is complete bullshit! The Guardian today points out today that this has been debunked in a number of places on the Internet. The study's authors told AOL Health that:

If there's anything science is good at, it's discovering new, strange ways for us to get cancer. Scientists have found a new one: Turning on the lights when you take a late-night trip to the bathroom. Thank you, science.

For a man who wears pretty much exactly the same thing every single day—a high-collared white shirt, blazer, dark slacks, and a fat tie—the Grand Moff of the fashion world sure needs a lot of luggage. How much?

On one side, a media outlet controversial for misleading readers, running sleazy ads and misappropriating private letters. On the other, a British tabloid. Facebook is in a big teen-sex-scandal feud with the Daily Mail — ironically, its old-media doppelgänger.

New pieces about the final days of Michael Jackson are flooding the news, along with tributes, memorials, debates on the nature of the conversation about him, etc. If there's one article you have to read on it, however, it's this:

Michelle Obama filmed a Sesame Street appearance yesterday, and, as any good American would be, she was delighted. Apparently it was even more fun than meeting some ancient English broad!

Now that her messy, messy divorce from Knight Rider/Baywatch star David Hasselhoff is finally over, Pamela Bach is freely dishing about the poor man's troubles. And, really, it behooves us to read every last detail. In 2002, for example, Hasselhoff called Bach from a hotel one dark night. "I'm drunk and I think I'm dying," he said. Then the line went dead. Berlin's most beloved singer went into rehab after that, but it didn't stick. "'I called the clinic and discovered he had checked out. I knew I had to go to him. I chartered a private plane and flew from LA to Palm Springs.’ Pamela learned that David had been taken to a local hospital, but didn’t know which one. ‘I got into a taxi and went to every hospital until I found him.’ "She discovered later that he’d drunk the entire contents of the minibar and had been found by a maid, semi-conscious and half-naked on the floor. The police had been called. This sordid episode, like so many before, was covered up by Pamela and a team of minders." And, says Bach, don't buy it if the Hoff seems to have gotten his act together lately: "To the woman who recently divorced him... Hasselhoff’s image as a self-aware, post-modern celebrity is a sham. ‘David is a falling-down drunk and I covered up for him for years. Alcoholism destroys you whether you are a regular Joe or the biggest star on the planet.’" Dayum, lady. Get a blog! [Daily Mail]

Could this be the end of the anonymous life of Banksy-British street artist -to-the-stars, darling of the underground and Angelina Jolie, and the most famous unidentified figure since Batman? We took a shot at solving the mystery ourselves a couple of months ago; but now the Daily Mail has done their own investigation, and we must say: it looks like they have him nailed. All the evidence is below-decide for yourself:

SCANDAL in the UK as a Guardian media commentator revealed to the House of Lords that rival papers The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph have "have a pact not to write about each other's parent companies." Shockingly, none of this involves Rupert Murdoch in any way! The Daily Mail is England's anti-Europe, severely moralistic conservative paper that features unparalleled coverage of celebrity gossip and scantily-clad photos of maybe famous people. The Telegraph is the boring Tory version of same. The papers' owners are all presumably rich British people with titles. The pact is a disgrace to journalism itself and would surely never be necessary in the US, where no newspaper would ever shy away from covering the owners of a competitor if it weren't for the fact that their readers don't give a shit. [Guardian]

Google hopes to someday track people and their belongings with RFID microchips, top Google engineer Douglas Merrill reportedly told David Jones from the U.K.'s Daily Mail. (Merrill might use such an innovation to track his dress shirts, had he more than one.) Google has overweening ambitions, it's true. But given the source, we're not inclined to take this one particularly seriously.

• In an interview with the Guardian, Conrad Black calls his fraud trial "bullshit" and announces that he's at war with the U.S. government. The paper also has an excerpt from Black's forthcoming biography of Richard Nixon, which praises the former president's "surpassing dignity." Read into that what you will. [Guardian]