Oliver Burton has battled cancer for most of his life, but recently the 10-year-old, who also has Down syndrome, was given a terminal prognosis. When royal officials informed his family that Queen Elizabeth II would not be able to fulfill his wish by meeting with him, actress Helen Mirren decided to reprise her famous role. The Academy Award winning star of the 2006 film The Queen invited Oliver and his family to a play (in which she also portrays the queen), then took them backstage for tea and a special knighting ceremony for young Oliver. Mirren stayed in character the entire time … Discuss

What’s the world record for fastest speed on a bicycle? It is now 163 mph. The new bicycle land-speed record (which is already being debated), was set by a French daredevil on what appears to be a rocket-powered mountain bike—immediately achieving every seven-year-old’s dream. Want to see what a Huffy looks like going 163 mph? Yeah, we thought so … Discuss

Here’s a profile of two Belgian entrepreneurs who have come up with what is possibly the world’s most insane business idea—eating dinner while suspended hundreds of feet in the air. Their company, Dinner in the Sky, launched six years ago, and has since held terrifying dinner parties around the world. If you don’t mind being strapped to your chair, being precariously suspended from crane cables or having to be lowered to the ground to use the restroom, than for just $500 a head, you too can reserve a sky-dining meal … Discuss

The new film from Spike Jonze will finally hit theaters in November. Her is the follow-up to the filmmaker’s 2009 big screen adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are and stars Joaquin Phoenix as a guy who falls in love with a Siri-like computer voice. So, yeah, it sounds just like a conventional rom-com. For a movie with such a trippy plot, it has a pretty impressive cast: Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Scarlett Johansson and Chris Pratt all star alongside Phoenix in the extremely postmodern love story … Discuss

In his message to Catholics on Wednesday, Pope Francis told believers that people of other faiths and atheists are redeemed through Christ and that all people should come together to do good.

"The Lord created us in His image and likeness, and we are the image of the Lord, and He does good and all of us have this commandment at heart: do good and do not do evil. All of us. “But, Father, this is not Catholic! He cannot do good.” Yes, he can... The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! “Father, the atheists?” Even the atheists. Everyone! .. We must meet one another doing good. “But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!” But do good: we will meet one another there.

In response to the Pope’s message, Father James Martin, S.J., a Jesuit priest and noted author of several popular books on Catholicism, told The Huffington Post, "Pope Francis is saying, more clearly than ever before, that Christ offered himself as a sacrifice for everyone. That's always been a Christian belief. You can find St. Paul saying in the First Letter to Timothy that Jesus gave himself as a ‘ransom for all’” … Discuss