News Bits!

-Police in the UK are trying to figure out the true identity of the fake Earl of Buckingham, who "married under the false name, passed it to his children, laid claim to the Buckingham crest and promised his teenage son that the peerage would one day be his." Sounds almost too awesome to be true.

-The crazy woman in Houston who drowned her five children back in 2001 has had her murder convictions thrown out the window.

-Bloomberg re-elected Mayor of New York

-Deputizing pet-owners to so that their dogs can hang out on restaurant patios? Genius!

-The Kansas State Board of Education approved revisions to science texts to "question the veracity of evolution theory."

-One of the fiercest terrorists in Asia blew himself up yesterday

-Nuclear talks with North Korea continued in Beijing

-Bill Gates proposes shifting Microsoft's emphasis towards subscription-based services

-A Catholic magazine in Rome is apologizing for showing a woman's buttocks in an advertisement

-Holy crap! Australian officials prevented what could've been a catastrophic major terrorist attack.

-France remains in a state of emergency

-The City of Austin's being sued by protesters over their biased handling of the KKK rally