Following the abrupt stoppage three songs into the Kings of Leon concert last week, fans became irate, screaming: “Bullshit!”

With prices for cocoa having already risen 150% since 2008, makers of chocolate are up in arms over a British hedge fund manager’s recent buying spree of the valuable crop. Anthony Ward, head of the investment firm Armajaro, now controls the equivalent to 7% of the world’s annual cocoa production, which is enough to manipulate prices on commodities markets. Armajaro is active in the cocoa-growing nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria and Ecuador.

As if BP didn’t have enough public relations problems on its hands stemming from the gulf oil spill, it turns out the oil company doctored some of the photos it released to the media demonstrating its response to the disaster.

Quinnipiac University in Connecticut tried to get rid of women’s volleyball and replace it with competitive cheerleading. The move prompted a lawsuit from female students on the volleyball team, who successfully argued in federal court that the university violated Title IX, the federal law requiring gender equality in federally-funded educational programs, including athletics. Quinnipiac also eliminated men’s outdoor track and golf.

Already outnumbered by its adversarial neighbor’s army, South Korea is experimenting with using armed robots to help guard the demilitarized zone that divides the country from North Korea. South Korea currently has 655,000 troops to defend itself against North Korea’s 1.2 million-strong force, and the disparity in military sizes may grow even wider as South Korea’s declining birth rate makes it more difficult for leaders in Seoul to maintain troop numbers in the future.

Computer mouses may become a thing of the past, with the invention of an infrared system that allows a user’s hand to do all the pointing and clicking necessary on a computer. The technology, created by Pranav Mistry at MIT, tracks a person’s hand motion and translates it to cursor movement on the computer screen. People will be able to point and click, right-click, scroll and drag without a mouse…and for a cost of only $20.

National League victories in Major League Baseball’s All-Star game are always a welcome sight for Republicans running for Congress. Since 1950, all nine elections in which the Republican Party enjoyed double-digit gains in the U.S. House of Representatives have been preceded by the National League winning the All-Star game earlier in the year. Considering that the National League had lost to the American League thirteen straight times, this year’s 3-1 victory on Tuesday was a great relief for Republicans.

Going beyond traditional methods of military training, the U.S. Marine Corps is sending its men on ride-alongs with Los Angeles police officers to learn how to apply anti-gang tactics to fighting the Taliban.

By taxing soft drinks and other sugar-filled beverages, the government could help Americans lose weight and reduce the growing problem of obesity, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.