One of Banksy’s latest London pieces has been painted over, continuing the public tradition of embellishing his work with spray cans, paint rollers, saws and other methods of destruction. The semi-elusive street artist recently sprayed over a 25-year-old ROBBO piece along Regent’s Canal in Camden, using the graffiti as the backdrop to his stencil of a worker papering the grey wall with vandalism. Not surprisingly, ROBBO returned on Christmas Day, not to bomb over Banksy completely, but to carefully convert the wall into a self-tribute with the worker painting a “KING ROBBO” piece in black and silver. |Graffoto| Read more »

The Iranian government continued its violent crackdown on opposition protests over the weekend, leading the White House to issue a stern “You better cut that out!” memo. Some protesters, however, fought back by beating down Iranian security forces with night sticks of their own. |Yahoo/AP Photo|

On Christmas Day, a 23-year-old Nigerian man aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam tried to ignite an incendiary device strapped to his leg during the final approach to Detroit, but the bumbling fool only managed to light his own crotch on fire instead and then got a swift ass-kicking by a Dutch passenger who helped subdue him. So what do we know about Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab? For one, not even his rich banker dad liked him. Nigeria’s This Daily reports: Read more »

Chicago apparently takes the whole Christmas thing pretty serious as evidenced by the CTA’s specially decorated “Holiday Train.”

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