News Corp. will pay a $3.2 million settlement to the family of Milly Dowler, the girl whose voicemail was hacked into by News of the World reporters after her murder in 2002. The company will also pay an additional $1.6 million to a charity of the Dowler family's choosing.

The first feature film from young writer/director Sean Durkin is certainly a stylistically assured debut — mysterious, moody, unbearably tense in parts — but all the style can't shroud the fact that there isn't much substance.

Poor Donald Trump! The all-American man of the people and real estate tycoon has sold his marble nightmare of a mansion in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The home was listed for $12 million in 2010, but sold for a middling $7.5 million.

Old-fashioned "meet me in Union Square and do the Thriller dance"-style flash mobs have been played out for years, although the more recent "big group of teens running around beating everyone's ass, just like they've always done, but with a new, trendier name"-style "flash mobs" are still going strong. And now, in a completely new and never-before-seen phenomenon: "Flash robs!" We must use any and all methods to crush this brand new and super scary outbreak of stealing things!

Our mom says that "anything's possible if you put your mind to it," and she's never wrong, so we're fairly certain that there is some way to transform human poop into gold. But mixing the poop with fertilizer and putting it on a heater is not that way, as Irish wannabe wizard Paul Moran recently discovered.

The Czech bank Komerční Banka isn't just "a universal bank providing a wide range of services in retail, corporate and investment banking"—it's also a place where you can have satisfying sexual experiences, as this ad proves. The woman featured here just opened up a bank account that charges a low maintenance fee. Just imagine what taking out a loan is like.

New Jersey state senate candidate Phil Mitsch knows just what America needs to get his awful state back on track: tax reductions, something called "mandatory mortgage loan modifications on at risk residential properties," and more cooperation from the ladies. "Women, you increase your odds of keeping your men by being faithful, a lady in the living room and a whore in the bedroom," he recently tweeted.

At a time of high unemployment and dwindling job alternatives for millions of Americans, Walmart—America's largest private employer—is denying healthcare benefits to many of its part-time employees. It's enough to make a (socialist) person cry in their craft beer (purchased at Walmart).

The University of Arizona played host to UCLA on Thursday for an evening game of football. Just before halftime, a man posing as a referee rushed the field, was exposed as a fraud, and then attempted to escape while simultaneously shedding his clothing. Did I mention that all the commotion led to a bench-clearing brawl?

In a recent Huckabee appearance, Mitt Romney said he'd "absolutely" support a constitutional amendment defining conception as the beginning of life. In addition to outlawing abortion, such an amendment could ban many forms of birth control, a fact Romney was seemingly unaware of when pressed on his position during a campaign event on Thursday. So tonight, armed with beer and female anatomy diagrams, Rachel Maddow invited Romney to her "Man Cave" for a crash course in how babies are made.

Do you "like" these Keds? Think they're #cute? Want to +1 pair to your sneaker collection? Well, unfortunately, you can't — not at the moment, at least. They're just concept kicks, created by graphic designer Lumen Bigott. They're also not-yet-available in Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube styles. It's only a matter of time. (Click image to get a better look.) [Social Media Shoes by Lument Bigott via Copyranter]

Under the guise of a program called "Books for the Troops," Bill O'Reilly strong-arms viewers into buying his latest bestseller by promising to send a copy of each one sold to American soldiers serving overseas. Of course, that doesn't mean the troops actually want the books, as we learned Wednesday when one serviceman in Afghanistan posted a photo online of scores of O'Reilly's Pinheads & Patriots burning in a trash bin. How rude! Thankfully, Stephen Colbert was at attention on tonight's Report to set the pinheaded troops straight.

New York City offers a great many things, but places to sit and places to relieve oneself (which might also encompass a place to sit) are not among them. One of those deficits is about to be remedied, however, as the ambitious new CityBench program seeks to install 1,000 new benches on city streets, with an emphasis on placing them near "bus stops, retail corridors, and in areas with high concentrations of senior citizens."

Jon Stewart began tonight's Daily Show with an evaluation of how people reacted to the death of Muammar Gaddafi. Which was silly, because how could anyone spin the death of an insane, 40-plus year-long dictator in a way that would discredit the United States' integral role in making it happen? And yet.

The revolution has spread past the 49th parallel and towards our friendly neighbors to the north: Occupy Toronto is only five days old, and already 2,000 have marched to the city center, with 100 of them having settled into a tent city in St. James Park. Sadly, however, the movement hit a slight bump on Thursday, as one demonstrator had pitched his tent in the grossest way imaginable.

Wang Yue, the two-year-old captured on video being run over twice in a Foshan market and ignored by bystanders, has died. The Guangzhou Military District General Hospital said she succumbed to her severe injuries shortly after midnight on Friday. [AP]

After outlawing special last-meal requests for prisoners on death row, the Texas prison system has now gone one better: They're outlawing meals, period, for everyone.

Great news, people who don't want brain cancer! A Danish study of 350,000 people over 18 years has found no link between that disease and cellphone usage. This contradicts the WHO's findings, who ruled they might cause cancer. [BBC]

If you're the kind of person who likes to casually drop Debbie Downer statistics into your holiday party conversations, here's some new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that will certainly be of interest to you: 8 million adults reported considering suicide at some point between 2008 and 2009, and 2 million actually made plans to do it.

They are the littlest, furriest, most adorable faces of the Occupy movement; or, as the NYPD sees them, target practice! Now, we can all coo over them over at Awwwccupy Wall Street, a Tumblr devoted to their ongoing crusade against the vast disparity of treats plaguing our nation.