This article on Somalian pirates made me LOL and LOL.

( The pirates are the hottest men in town, Abdi said. Girls from all over Somalia moved here to marry pirates. But if the girl isn't cute she's out of luck, because the pirates only go with beautiful girls )

Girl, 13, stoned to death in Somalia
Posted: 05:19 PM ET
(CNN) - A 13-year-old girl accused of adultery was stoned to death last month in a soccer stadium in Somalia, witnesses told CNN.The killing occurred October 27 after the girl, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, told officials of al-Shabab, a radical Islamic group that controls the port city of Kismayo ( Read more... )

Sometimes I love the newsJERUSALEM (CNN) -- An Israeli archaeologist has discovered what he says is the earliest-known Hebrew text, found on a shard of pottery that dates to the time of King David from the Old Testament, about 3,000 years ago ( Read more... )

An Italian showgirl and bikini model is selling her virginity - for $1.8 million.Raffella Fico, 20, told an Italian magazine she was offering herself up for one million euros to help pay for acting classes and insisted she had never had sex before ( Read more... )

1. David Duchovny is a sex addict. That is amusing me immensely. I have never watched him an anything (yes, I have never seen X-Files) but am of course familiar with him through pop culture osmosis, so LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL ( Read more... )

I am normally pretty indifferent to celebrity couples, but Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams are an exception for some weird reason. And apparently, they are back together, making them one of only 3 celebrity couples I actually dig (that are still together, I dug some other ones which broke up). The other two are (1) Abhishek Bachchan and Aiswarya ( Read more... )

Lee Eon has just died in a motorcycle accident.

Oh no!

I loved him SO much in Coffee Prince as a little bit dim but sweet and loyal boyfriend of heroine's sister. He was so awesome as one of the coffee princes.

Grrrrrr.

He was really young, too, only in his 20s.

That is horrible.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She is the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave ( Read more... )

...is from a Miss Korea beauty pageant:


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I don't usually post contemporary events stuff here, as this is mainly a place for me to fan-blab, but this is an exception ( Read more... )