Fifteen British naval officers were seized by Iranian forces this morning, after they boarded an Iranian ship for a “routine” inspection.

Nearly 100 pet owners have already joined a class action suit against Menu Foods, the company responsible for distributing contaminated cat and dog food.

Some British drug experts pushing for a reclassification of recreational drugs in Britain released a new report ranking drugs in terms of the social and personal harm they cause (and taking addictiveness into account): alcohol was fifth on the list, with cannabis, LSD, and ecstasy ranking 11th, 14th, and 18th, respectively.

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found a dramatic shift in political party identification since 2002, with significantly more respondants identifying with the Democratic Party. Meanwhile today the house is scheduled to vote on a measure that would set a deadline for the withdrawl of troops from Iraq.

Judy Giuliani revealed to have had a“secret first marriage”—making that a grand total of sixmarriages between Rudy and Judy combined.

Another Mel Gibson meltdown : When a Mayan woman called the depiction of Mayan culture in the movie Apocalypto racist, a furious (and undeniably racist) Gibson told her to to fuck off.