CULTURE

The Chinese blogosphere is abuzz with tales of discrimination in the Maldives against Chinese tourists and their beloved instant noodles.

Glenn Beck's TheBlaze TV network, which he founded after his departure from Fox News, is launching "For the Record," which purports to offer an objective viewpoint. Can a conservative network pull off investigative journalism?

Bindi Irwin, the 14-year-old daughter of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, shocked fans now that she's all grown up.

The World Wildlife Fund reports that 28 elephants were killed in Cameroon by poachers for nearly a month.

After a hero grandfather saved children from a potential shark attack in Queensland, 62-year-old Paul Marshallsea and his wife were fired.

Kim Kardashian decided to change her hairstyle, and now looks very much like her sister Kourtney Kardashian.

"Habemus Papam!" "We have a Pope!" These are the words the world's Catholics wait for each time the white smoke rises above the Vatican to announce a new pope. And they were spoken again Wednesday afternoon, when French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran announced Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis.

A sixth-grader at Taylor School District in Taylor, Mich., brought a backpack full of money to school, reportedly amounting to $20K in cash, which she then gave away to other students.

Nina Dobrev confesses to Conan O'Brien the embarassing sex scene tips her mom gives her on "The Vampire Diaries" set.

Anthony Johnson, 13, drowned in a swimming pool at Disney World.

Lamar Odom gave his wife Khloe Kardashian a puppy this week, adding a new member to their family

Three "killer dolphins" escaped, possibly to look for a mate, during a training exercise off the coast of Ukraine, according to Russian reports.

Warren Lahoud, Reeva Steenkamp's long-term ex-boyfriend, had coffee with the model two days before her death.

Felicia Barahona, 32, had sex with the student for four months at her home and began the relationship when the boy turned 18 years old in the fall of 2011.

Taylor Swift may be in trouble with fans after hundreds of unopened letters from admirers were found in a dumpster in Nashville

The new cartoon will focus on Christopher Wallace's children, C.J and T’yanna, as they try to preserve their father’s Bedford-Stuyvestant studio in Brooklyn.

A Montana man accused of waterboarding four children as a "learning experience" will receive probation as part of a plea agreement.

Australian hunk Liam Hemsworth is no longer engaged to Miley Cyrus as reports emerge that the couple has called it quits.

Is a massive “floating village” the answer to the U.K.’s economic woes? London Mayor Boris Johnson thinks so.

Michael Boysen, the 26-year-old Washington man accused of killing his grandparents, was captured by police on Tuesday in Oregon.

An Oklahoma mother was arrested for failing to report child abuse after her 11-year-old son allegedly raped her 6-year-old daughter.

Beginning next month, flight attendants on China's Spring Airlines will not only hand you peanuts and a soda, they'll sell you a new car.

Makeup artist Melissa Murphy has posted before and after pictures of porn stars without makeup to her Instagram account.

After months of national media publicity and social media sparring the “rape crew” trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday in Steubenville, Ohio.

"Teen Mom 2" star Jenelle Evans left rehab recently, and seems to be back with Courtland Rogers despite filing assault charges.

Gerard Butler admits to sleeping with Brandi Glanville, the only problem is that he forgot her name.

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last survivor of the failed 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler died Friday in his Munich home at age 90.

Less than two weeks after a Florida sinkhole pulled a man out of his bed and beneath the earth’s surface a golfer in Illinois narrowly escaped a similar fate.

Taylor Swift has graced the covers of Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Elle and now Vanity Fair, but they aren't selling like her music.