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Actor Charlie Sheen’s antics are nothing new but in early 2011 he took them to new levels.

It’s hard not to think about Fridays without the infamous Rebecca Black song playing in your head.

The video for “Friday” hit Youtube in March of 2011 and quickly went viral. The song amassed millions of views, countless parodies, and made Rebecca Black a household name.

Yet her instant rise to fame came at a cost. Rebecca left her high school after being bullied by classmates. The internet was no kinder to her, amounting her nasally, auto-tuned voice and tedious lyrics to the worst song ever made.

May 21st, 2011 was supposed to be the end of the world. Almost seven months later we’re still here.

So who cried wolf? Radio preacher and Evangelist Harold Camping. He claims to have calculated the date of the rapture through numbers and dates found in the Christian bible.

About 5-thousand billboards were posted all around the U.S. announcing the end of the world. Many of his followers gave away their entire life savings before the alleged doomsday.

Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch saw the foundations of his News Corp empire shaken to the core this year. British tabloid News of the World was found to have been hacking the voicemails of celebrities, royals and even kidnapping victims and relatives of dead soldiers. The practice went on for over a decade. Private investigators were hired by the paper to dig up dirt.

Read by: Aisha Samu

Stories by: Aisha Samu, Nikita Smith, Tara Brockwell, Katie McGroarty, and Niki Mohrdar.

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Remember the hungry and the homeless this holiday season as well as your empty beer cans.

A non-profit organization is campaigning for Quebecers to reimburse their empty cans over tossing them in the bin.  Consignéco says that Quebecers lose twenty one million dollars worth of beer cans in the garbage and recycling bin each year.