Hoping to impress the teachers at his new school, an Irving, Texas, high school freshman named Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock with him to MacArthur High Monday morning, which he’d assembled before bed the night before. When he showed it to those teachers, though, they were something other than impressed, and by Monday afternoon, Mohamed was being led out of school in handcuffs. Ahmed’s English teacher believed the device was a bomb.

Comedian Dave Chappelle had a less-than-spectacular night in Detroit last week, audience members are complaining.

Washington State teen hero Ibrahim Ahmad got the girl plus a bonus paid vacation this week when he schemed up an idiot prom invite that centered around a fake bomb.

Militants—likely Boko Haram—bombed a city center in Kaduna, Nigeria Wednesday. At least 25 people have been reported dead so far. According to the BBC, the attack was targeting the moderate Islamic cleric Dahiru Bauchi.

A man in a wheelchair detonated a homemade bomb at Beijing Capital International Airport early this morning, injuring only himself.

Hundreds of residents had to be evacuated from the center of Munich last night after German authorities were unable to defuse a 550lb. WWII-era bomb found buried a few feet underground.

The world is, on so many levels, a scary place. Hypothetically, one of the scariest things that can happen is a terrorist's underwear bomb going off anywhere near you or your family or your friends.

Frugal flyer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man and underpants bomb enthusiast who on Christmas 2009 allegedly intended to make an airliner go boom over Detroit, heads to court today for the first day of his trial on eight terrorism-related charges. Abdulmutallab has pleaded not guilty, but the evidence against him is pretty strong (a confession, a videotape of him explaining his bomb scheme, and the half-destroyed bomberpants he wore during his fateful flight, among other things) so he probably shouldn't expect a Christmas miracle. Given this development and the death of his inspiration source, Anwar al-Awlaki, just a few days ago, Abdulmutallab's kind of having a shitty week.

A bomb attack on a bus carrying soldiers in Istanbul killed at least three, according to TV reports.

An agitated man on Long Island told his boss he'd 'pull a Faisal' if he was fired. We, and the New York Post, presume he was referring to the would-be Times Square bomber. And a phrase is born. [NYP]

Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Connecticut resident, has been taken into police custody at JFK airport. There is a Faisal Shahzad on Facebook whose profile picture shows him in Herald Square. Is it the same guy? (Update: No.)

The NYPD has released security camera footage of possible suspect in Saturday's botched Times Square car bomb attempt, showing a man changing his shirt in an alley near the intended bomb site. Click through for the video.