• A cat has survived being walled in under a bathtub for 7 weeks in Berlin after the feline crept under a bathtub that was being installed. • More stories of survival: A tortoise narrowly escaped being buried under 50 tons of trash at a landfill after his owners accidentallly threw him in the garbage. • Lunatica Desuna has complied a gallery of the different depictions of the Mona Lisa by famous artists like Andy Warhol, Keith Herring, and Marcel Duchamp. • Jeremy Paxman, a TV-presenter on the BBC network, whines that "the worst thing you can be [in the television industry] is a middle-class white male". • A 21-year-old mother undergoing treatment for cervical cancer has been denied Ondansetron, an anti-sickness drug, because it is supposedly too expensive. • Women at the National Theater in London are getting a chance to shine behind the scenes as art directors, designers, and playwrights by giving over the largest stage to a living female playwright's play, a first for the theater • Child rape is rising in Afghanistan's northern provinces (as the government's control begins to be lost to insurgents). • A 47-year-old man in Scarborough, Ontario has claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary in his neighbor's tree. • More than 1/3rd of women between the ages of 18-44 have admitted to sharing prescription drugs in a recent study. • Wooser, Tibet's most famous female writer and blogger, has been arrested by police after being accused of photographing military installations. • Cheerleaders in Monroe, Ohio have been banned from wearing their cheerleading uniforms to school because the short skirts violate a new district-wide dress code on skirt length. •

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• An unsanctioned Gay Pride Parade (the first in Cuba) that was organized by Florida's Unity Coalition was cancelled when two of the leaders were arrested, only one other person was set to march for the event. • JK Rowling's complaint that her privacy was violated when her home was pictured in newspapers has been rejected by the PCC. • Spain's parliament has given Great Apes (or chimps, gorillas, orangutans, and bonobos) the "human rights" of freedom and a right to life. • Bond girl names "Moneypenny" and "Honeychild" were actually inspired by British farm names. • 36 Swedish couples have registered to get married in "drive-thru" weddings at a gathering of auto enthusiasts, the gathering will have a '50s and '60s Las Vegas-type theme. • Specially trained dogs in Sweden and Hungary can detect ovarian cancer just by a scent. • The Doody family in England have been crowned The Faggot Family for their love of faggots, a British dish. • A national survey in England has found that 1 in 5 homosexuals have been victims of some sort of homophobic aggression over the past 3 years. • Ten ways to have Green sex: use solar-powered sex toys! Wear heat-sensitive panties! • Some British lawyers say that text messaging is the number one sign of infidelity in many divorces they handle. • More U.S. states are considering a law that requires doctors to perform ultrasounds on women who wish to have abortions. • YouTube tells us that there is a new trend of "boob punching" out there. Uh, ow. • Men's groups (yes, that's right) in India are pulling together to get rid of "pro-women" laws that protect women from domestic violence because it is against the belief that a person is "innocent until proven guilty" and only identifies the victims as female and the males as the abusers.

Toledano seems to have changed his mind on the "young, hip" angle. "The brand has to stay exclusive," he says, and calls the latest collection (below) "elegant." (Agreed!) But this new exclusive, sophisticated shift comes with an insane price tag, both literal and figurative: Sales of bags costing more than $2,800 have tripled in recent months — won't the teenagers who adored Dior feel slighted and betrayed? And what about the rest of us, who can't even afford the Dior shit we love in Teen Vogue?

Dior's Latest Makeover Focuses On Grown-Ups [WSJ]