Bad week for:

amid rising suspicions that a “zebra” at a zoo in Cairo is just a donkey crudely painted with wobbly stripes that became blurry in the heat. “The zebra is real and not painted,” insisted zoo official Mohammed Sultan.

who have the ugliest accent in the nation, according to a new YouGov poll. Texans were rated as having the most attractive accent, while Bostonians’ accent was deemed strongest.

after Leslie Cockburn, a Virginia Democratic congressional candidate, accused her Republican opponent, Denver Riggleman, of being “a devotee of Bigfoot erotica.” Riggleman says he put images of a nude, well-endowed Bigfoot on Instagram as “parody.”