Three transgender New Yorkers are suing the city in a bid to change what they call an outdated and discriminatory policy on changing birth certificates. [AP]
An oil spill has covered thousands of endangered penguins in crude after a cargo ship ran aground on an island in the South Atlantic. [AP]
Upstate New Yorker Keith Gruber was more than an hour late for his DWI hearing and had four more unopened cans of beer in his bag. This is what Charlie Sheen would call winning. [Middletown Times Herald]
Worth the risk: People are 2.7 times more likely to have a heart attack when they are having sex or immediately after. [Reuters]
Photos from Silvio Berlusconi's raunchy "bunga bunga" sex parties have emerged from prosecutors' 20,000-page dossier on the Italian prime minister. [Telegraph]
Spider-Man has claimed another victim. TV Carpio was hurt last week during an onstage battle scene. [FOXNY]
Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has passed away at the age of 79. The cause of death is unknown at this time. [GMATwitter]