Chances are, when hearing the news yesterday about Malaysia Airlines plane being shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, you had the standard reaction of shock and horror. You might have expressed said shock and horror privately among friends and coworkers, or publicly.

Good news for those of us who love Star Wars and diversity in film. The movie has just added an Asian actress to its lineup, up-and-coming British thespian Christina Chong.

Poor Freddie Minnis might have already peaked at 11 months old. He's just won a contest to be a Prince George lookalike.

Is the giant Tom Brady for Uggs billboard by the pike.

Former police officer David Cerna was recently arrested for placing a hidden camera in a Mobile gas station bathroom in Chesterfield, Missouri, and then posting the videos on a porn site. Now, after the site has been taken down, stills remain searchable on Tumblr. Yet Tumblr refuses to take down the photos—what…

I just found out that most ladies do in fact love Jeff Goldblum. So does anybody like this Lenny Kravitz song or am I alone on this one?

After giving us an exceedingly cold and snowy winter, the Weather Gods are blessing Chicago and other parts of the Midwest/Northeast with unseasonably cool weather later this week. Think mild and pleasant mid-September temperatures, rather than hot and humid mid-July ones.

My favorite Hills personality, Lo Bosworth, chronicled everything she ate during the 4th of July weekend, and it seems decadent. Like Lo loves eating oysters and "lox on lox on lox" at fancy-sounding restaurants.

An independent board committee is still investigating American Apparel founder and ex-CEO Dov Charney for sexual misconduct, yet the company board has hired him back as a "strategic consultant" until the end of the investigation.

John Legend has a video out for his song, "You & I (Nobody in The World)." The whole thing is cheesy in that "you don't know you're beautiful" way, but it does feature a diverse range of women — in terms of race, age, and experience — and showcases the great Laverne Cox and Tig Notaro. Check it out.

So much for giving this upcoming season to the women. True Detective season 2 is becoming Colin Farrell's Emmy campaign.

This hedgehog and his hamster pals are Team Tiny Cake (not to be confused with cupcake).

People may be buying The Goldfinch and The Hunger Games in droves, but how many actually finish these books? How far do readers get? According to mathematician Jordan Ellenberg, his Hawking Index will let you know!

A non-autotoned version of Britney Spears' "Alien," from her latest album Britney Jean, has been leaked. Not surprisingly, her voice falls flat in many places, either because Britney Spears is not known for her vocal prowess, or because this version wasn't meant to be a "take" for engineers to refine anyway.

Caption this: Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Watson attend the Dior couture show in Paris.

Is it the dumb blonde? The asexual gay dude? Or the Long Duk Dong-like Asian background player? Which sitcom stereotype can you just not abide?

Photographer Jill White snapped an image of her daughter and a friend that reminded her of the iconic Coppertone Ad, so she shared it on Coppertone's Facebook page.

12-year-old Lauren Arrington brings some positive attention to Florida with her discovery that venomous, predatory lionfish can survive in bodies of water with low salt content, unlike previously believed. Now she's been credited in the Environmental Biology of Fishes journal for her discovery.