Weekly Review

The United States debates a military strike in Syria, Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiates at a same-sex marriage, and KFC Japan begins selling deep-fried soup Read More

A poison-gas attack in Syria, a verdict in the Manning trial, and wing-walker Flame Brewer Read More

“We are cautious,” said General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, “about every drop of Egyptian blood.” Read More

The U.S. government responds to an alleged terrorist plot, Ramadan ends in violence in parts of the Muslim world, and Swedish men guard their testicles from pacu fish  Read More

Zimbabwe re-elects Robert Mugabe, a fatwa against croissants, and a lemonade-stand robbery at BB-gunpoint Read More

Egypt teeters precariously, cat zombies and zonkeys live, and a hexapus dies Read More

Detroit files for bankruptcy, prison breaks outside Baghdad, and snail-mucus makeup in France Read More

Trayvon Martin’s killer is acquitted, Yasiin Bey is force fed, and Sweden gets disability-themed beer Read More

Sexual assault amid Egyptian upheaval, adult breast-feeding in China, and the empathy of taxidermist George Dante Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court gets in on the Voting Rights and Defense of Marriage acts, Egypt threatens revolution, and a harsh Crimean punishment for borscht-dumping Read More

Edward Snowden's travel itinerary, a Christian ministry's ex-ex-gay therapy, and the apocalypse gets a golf course. Read More

The U.S. offers military aid to the Syrian opposition, Turkey clears protesters from Gezi Park, and oculolinctus enthusiast Elektrika Energias speaks Read More

Big Barack is watching, Turkish winter is coming, and Sunday Swett is winning Read More

Tension in Turkey, storm-chasing tragedy in Oklahoma, and auf Wiedersehen to Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz Read More

Obama calls for an end to the “war on terror,” tensions grow in Europe, and a Filipino with forty-one names Read More

Government power-drunkenness, space oddities, and anti-lesbian prejudice on the Isle of Man Read More

Pakistan’s first democratic transfer of power, the IRS and DOJ overstep their bounds, and the Pope comes out against spinsters Read More

One World Trade Center gets its spire, the Gitmo hunger strike continues, and the OED explores revirginize Read More

A Bangladeshi building collapses, George W. Bush’s presidential library opens, and koala chlamydia ravages Australia Read More

A manhunt in Massachusetts, the Gitmo hunger strike grows, and the cause of earthquakes in Iran Read More

A bombing at the Boston Marathon, a gun suicide at an NRA-sponsored event, and Anne Frank’s beliebf Read More

Oil spills, the Iron Lady, and Barbie’s Berlin Dreamhouse Read More

The Supreme Court considers skim-milk marriage, a Guantánamo Bay hunger strike expands, and Egyptian scuba divers sabotage SEA-ME-WE-4 Read More

Obama hoofs it to Israel, Cyprus barely skates by, and a Canadian suggests an unusual stimulus project Read More

Pope Francis among the people, rapist self-pity, and a slavery debate at CPAC Read More

Chávez cancer conspiracy theories, drone droning, and coitus leo interruptus Read More

Sequestration remonstration, shticklomacy in North Korea, and the menagerie of Nutzu the Pawnbroker Read More

Papal preparations, Polish diacritics, and Norwegian wood critics Read More

Meteoric tidings, a paraplegic piglet's wheelchair, and Chubby Checker's Chubby Checker check Read More

Pope Benedict XVI retires, as does the world’s most prolific streaker Read More