Animal services rescue 237 dogs from a squalid home in Corpus Christi, Texas.

The Vatican, which never has better things to do—like calling for peace in the Middle East or Africa or Asia, doing some charity work, or preaching love and understanding—has called the Golden Compass, the recent film based on the book series, "anti-Christian and hopeless."

Dick Cheney probably burned something important.

"Don't tase me, bro!" will live in infamy.

Mecca during The Hajj: never before have so many people been in one place with so little partying.

How much is the Magna Carta worth? $21.3 million.

Iraqi rape case moves quite slowly.

Israel plans to build new homes on disputed land, against advice, which certainly won't make things better.

Santa Claus is rap-attacked in Spain. Click here to watch.

Meanwhile, Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee denies intentionally putting a subliminal cross in his recent campaign ad, but in this day and age of overly-reviewed and overly-edited and overly-polled political discourse, the idea that his team of dozens of advisors didn't notice the friggin' thing is as likely as Huckabee actually winning.