• Girl on film: English lingerie model Sophie Anderton is dropped from her lucrative contract with the Fake Bake tanning firm after she's filmed snorting cocaine, stripping, and offering sex to an undercover reporter for £10,000. And worst of all: she disses Kate Moss.
• 'Bama battles back: All of Barack Obama's recent "mudslinging" has paid off: He's leading the new ABC polls in Iowa, most significantly in categories that emphasize trustworthiness and honesty.
• Oh daddy: An 80-year-old archbishop is at the center of an Atlanta-area megachurch sex scandal in which he slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her. And you thought stalking Conan O'Brien was bad.
• Taser-happy: A former BYU professor is tased "into unconsciousness" in a courtroom while five bailiffs attempt to apprehend him. Andrew "Don't Tase Me, Bro" Meyer laments the loss of the spotlight.
• Just in time for the holidays: CBS News writers vote to join the ranks at the picket line. The network may have to rerun some of our favorite Katie Couric news highlights.
• Chavez channels R. Kelly: At an OPEC summit in Saudi Arabia, celebrity magnet Hugo Chavez has to pee. Bad. "Look, I have to go," the Venezuelan strongman is heard saying. "For a while now, I have needed to go to the bathroom and I am going to pee ... Do you want me to pee on you?"