Violent riots continue to shake Stockholm's suburbs for the third night in a row, following a police shooting last week. Last Monday, police shot a man in the impoverished, mostly immigrant suburb of Husby, after the 69-year-old allegedly threatened the police with a machete that he was brandishing. Husby is primarily…

Hackers, protesters, and more than 70 Chinese celebrities, including Yao Ming, are opposing an initial public offering made by a Chinese company called Guizhentang Pharmaceutical, whose key ingredient is bear bile. The bile is cruelly "milked" by inserting tubes in the animals abdomens three times a day, "sometimes for…

A Scottsdale, Arizona, restaurateur whose very public meltdown in the aftermath of a now-infamous appearance on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares nearly ran him out of business can now add "possible deportation" to his mounting list of troubles.

On last night's episode of Ke$ha's #yolol-fueled MTV reality show My Crazy Beautiful Life, she peed into a bottle and then drank it. Just to be, you know, funky. She's so unusual. She's such a freak. She's so My Strange Addiction.

Jon Stewart began The Daily Show last night by noting: "The great thing about mayors is that they can maintain the eccentricities that get sanded-off and focus-grouped out of statewide or national politicians." And even among crazy mayors, he says, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford stands out.

A website for Chinese newspaper Global Times recently published photos of a new Japanese military helicopter "design concept". Too bad it's not real. It's not even made by the Japanese military.

City Councilman Eric Garcetti won the race for mayor of Los Angeles last night, defeating his opponent, city controller Wendy Greuel, by a margin of eight percent.

A few years ago, guitar prodigy Tina S. made a minor splash with her dexterous performance of Ferdinando Carulli's "Andante."