[London, August 4. Image via Getty]

[Arlington, Virgina; August 4. Image via Getty]

• Angelina Jolie, as you may know, was in Baghdad yesterday. Saint Angelina walked through a makeshift settlement where 20,000 displaced Iraqis live, and said:

[Baghdad, July 23. Image via AP]

[Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan; July 22. Image via Getty]

[Baghdad, July 14. Image via Getty]

[Baghdad, July 13. Image via Getty]

[Baghdad, July 6. Image via Getty]

Who but Gawker's Alex Pareene could help me understand Bon Jovi's Iranian tribute song, Iraqi withdrawal, the New York Senate's misdeeds and the appropriately Christian punishment for Mark Sanford's sins?

[Karbala, Iraq; June 30. Image via Getty]

Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang raped in Iraq by an unknown number of co-workers, is suing for the right to sue their mutual employer, as the Justice Department won't investigate and she's covered by an arbitration clause. [NPR, YouTube]

"I helped to destroy a family and end the lives of four of my fellow human beings, and I wish that I could take it back, but I cannot," said Steven Green, an ex-soldier who raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her family. His apology was not accepted. [CNN]

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• Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin claims that the famous bust of Nefertiti housed in a Berlin museum is actually a fake, created in 1912 as a copy on which archeologists could test pigments. •

[Baghdad, May 3. Image via Getty]

• People at Washington's Sidwell Friends School (where Sasha & Malia go) are disappointed that the Obamas "only" donated autographed magazines to their charity auction rather than agreeing to hang out with the highest bidder. [MSNBC]

Promising news in the campaign against female genital mutilation: 10 villages in Niger have publicly denounced the practice and the parliament in Iraq's northern autonomous region of Kurdistan is preparing to issue a ban.