For a while there, e-mail newsletter Popbitch had recoiled into Brit-centric tidbits of relatively little interest to anyone outside the ascot set. But with new lows of Amy Winehouse and… READ ON

What’s the deal with adorable Sesame Street muppet Elmo and his unslakable lust for blood? A few years back, as the video above shows, a family in Dallas realized that… READ ON

PROJECT RUN-AWAY Klum
Though it’s hardly tacking on eight extra episodes in Paris, a la Hills, the Project Runway finale sort of … wasn’t. Actually, this wasn’t so much a… READ ON

BEARLY LEGAL (Clockwise from left) Cute, adorable, joyous, sublime (Photo: Getty Images)
Hold on to your ovaries, ladies. There’s a new baby polar bear in town. Yes, first there was… READ ON

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is making a historic visit to Iraq this weekend, and though little information has been released about his itinerary, Reuters is advising that a show of… READ ON

UTTERLY RIDICULOUS PETA protest
• Squeal! To protest animal cruelty, PETA puts a naked pregnant woman on all fours in a cage in London, simulating both a mother pig in… READ ON

SOLDIER OF FORTUNES Harry (Photo: Getty Images)
• Homecoming: Concerned that the prince will become a “high-value” target, the British Defense Ministry says it will bring Harry home from… READ ON

HOUSE SITTING Tommy Hilfiger’s 27.9M Connecticut jump-off
Having sold his eponymous clothing label for $1.6 billion, Tommy Hilfiger will never need a penny more. Ever. So it must purely be… READ ON

At a town hall meeting in Texas Thursday, presidential hopeful John McCain addressed his oft-repeated remark about U.S. forces remaining in Iraq for a hundred years, clarifying that, “I was… READ ON

Following a Hollywood casting call asking for actors with an “other-worldly look … an albino or something along those lines,” or, more simply, someone from a “West Virginia holler,” Mountain… READ ON

Just as Amy Winehouse is reported to be moving from her raucous party pad in London to Buckinghamshire’s bucolic outer regions, British courts announce she’s been cleared in the justice-perverting… READ ON

…THE TRAIL OF DEAD Harry (Photo: Getty Images)
When we heard that Prince Harry had been serving on the front lines in Afghanistan, we were pretty skeptical that the gangly… READ ON

JESUS, FREAK John (Photo: Getty Images)
John McCain scored the endorsement of a major mega-church mullah in John Hagee this week, and this “McCain Embraces Bigot” press release suggests that… READ ON

ROOMIES Fleiss, Greene (inset) (Photo: Getty Images)
CNBC is drooling, drooling over its “first ever television interview” with real estate mogul Jeff Greene today. He’s about the only hedge funder… READ ON