French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama re-learned a lesson about foreign diplomacy: speak softly and make sure your microphone is turned off before you bad-mouth Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and call him "a liar." After holding a presser at the G20 conference in Cannes Thursday, Obama and Sarkozy retreated to another room for a private conversation that turned out to be a very public faux pas.

Hugh Hefner's runaway bride Crystal Harris has apologized via Twitter – not for dumping him just days before their June 18 nups – but for making a jab at the playboy's sexual prowess. "I'm sorry," she tweeted on July 28. "I was unprepared and blurted out things I shouldn’t have said." The 25 year old playmate over-shared on a July 26 interview with Howard Stern, revealing that sex with 85-year-old her ex-fiance lasted "like two seconds."

A Japanese squid dish that pushes the envelope on the raw food fad may not catch on as quickly as sushi, judging from reactions to a viral video (first video below) that shows a squid writhing in bowl of food after being doused with special sauce. Odori-don, which literally means “dancing squid rice bowl,” according to Japanese food blog FoodJapan.net, is a delicacy in which a live squid’s head is removed and made into sashimi, and the rest of the body is served whole on a bed of sushi rice.

The News of the World may be defunct, but its checks are still good. At least they are for Rebekah Brooks, who is still on the company payroll despite her arrest and resignation as the disgraced paper's editor-in-chief in July, according to a report in The Telegraph. "I am reliably informed that she remains on the company payroll," reports Tim Walker of the London paper.

Anders Breivik, the man who confessed to the massacre in Norway last month - including a bombing in Oslo and a shooting rampage at a political youth camp - returned to his scene of evil Saturday for a tour in which he reenacted the slaughter. Norwegian police said they questioned Breivik for nearly eight hours while they reconstructed the bloody ambush on Utoya Island that claimed the lives of 69 young political activists on July 22, CNN reports.

Scientists are saying that ecstasy-an illegal drug largely connected with hardcore clubgoers-can actually treat several forms of cancer. However, a market-ready medication doctors can prescribe to patients may take another ten years to develop, researchers told BBC Radio. "This is an exciting next step," said Professor John Gordon, lead author of a groundbreaking study on the topic, during a radio interview.

Republicans have seemingly grown tired of Sarah Palin's teasing about running for President, and have decided she should just stay out of it. A shocking 71% say the former reality TV star should not run for the White House in 2012, according to a Fox News poll. Only 25% of those asked the question, "Do you think Sarah Palin should run for president in 2012 or not?"

Levi Johnston's first foray into publishing had him baring some skin for Playgirl. Now, he's revealing everything about why ex-flame Bristol Palin got pregnant with their son Tripp in a new tell-all book out Sept. 20. In "Deer in the Headlights," Johnston says Palin, daughter of ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, convinced him to get her pregnant so she could have a baby in revenge for her mother's surprise pregnancy with son Trig.

Human remains found Friday in a 55-gallon drum filled with hardened concrete may belong to a young New Jersey mother missing for over a month, officials said. Jersey City Police Chief Tom Comey said the gruesome discovery was the first "significant development in the case" of Randy "Amanda" Lehrer, 32, who was last seen in public on August 12.

The husband of a missing New Jersey woman found encased in a cement-filled 55-gallon drum was arrested Friday night for her murder, according to the Newark Star-Ledger. Steven Acuna, 38, was arrested shortly after cops made the grisly discovery, Hudson County prosecutors told the newspaper. Acuna reported his wife Randy (Amanda) Lehrer, 32, missing in August five days after she disappeared.

A high-ranking female official at the Centers for Disease Control was busted Sunday on charges of bestiality and child molestation for sexual acts involving a 6-year-old boy, authorities told a Georgia paper. Kimberly Quinlan Lindsey, 44, the deputy director of laboratory science policy at the Atlanta-based center, was collared after a medical professional dropped a dime on her and her security-guard partner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

At two years old, Lia Vega is already saving lives. The fact that the toddler had never used a phone didn't prevent her from knowing what to do when her mom collapsed on the floor of their Texas home on Thursday. When Larissa Taylor hit the ground during a seizure, little Lia didn’t scream or cry, but grabbed the nearest cell phone and figured out how to call her grandmother, Bobbie Gonzalez, in Houston, ABCnews.com reports.

Fans of hit-maker Adele may have to rely on iTunes to hear “Rolling in the Deep” and “21.”. Since canceling her US tour dates earlier in October, the 23-year-old singer’s six remaining appearances in the UK have also been canceled, prompting suspicions around the Internet that the unspecified illness may actually be throat cancer.

A San Diego man distraught over the death of his only son in a car accident Thursday morning died after crashing his own car on the same highway on the same day, reports NBC San Diego. Sumil Sambhi was driving the wrong way on eastbound Interstate 8 Thursday when he steered into the path of an oncoming car near his home in Alpine.

Brain scans of frequent tanning-booth users showed activity mimicking patterns of drug addiction, researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center discovered. They also found that habitual tanners needing a fix won't feel satisfied without a big dose of UV radiation. Scientists have long suspected that repeated exposure to ultraviolet light is addictive, and a 2005 study showed that a proportion of frequent sunbathers met the psychiatric definition of a substance abuse disorder based on responses on a test used to spot alcoholism.

A second experiment clocking the speed of subatomic particles called neutrinos confirms previous reports that the elusive particles can travel faster than the speed of light. Both experiments involved shooting a beam of neutrinos produced at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, France, to a veritable landing pad 450 miles away at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy.