Chris Brown's very public breakup

Chris Brown and model Karrueche Tran have called it quits very publicly. Brown reportedly took to social media to accuse Tran of cheating with rapper Drake, who has also been involved with Brown's famed ex, singer Rihanna. He later apologized.

Well, that didn't last long. According to E! Online, Jennifer Lawrence's relationship with Coldplay's Chris Martin is over. The two allegedly started dating in June.

It seems the sweetness has run out of Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson's relationship with June "Mama June" Shannon. The couple, who star in TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," announced in September that they were separating. Now there are allegations that Mama June has moved on to a relationship with a man who's causing concern at TLC, leading to the show being canceled.

Actor Charlie Sheen said he called off his engagement to former adult film actor Brett Rossi so he can focus on his children. The couple had been engaged since February. "I've decided that my children deserve my focus more than a relationship does right now. I still have a tremendous fondness for Scotty and I wish her all the best."

Actress Paula Patton filed for divorce from her husband, singer Robin Thicke, in October. The couple, who mutually decided to separate in February, have one child together, Julian Fuego.

The couple that was Jordin Sparks and Jason Derulo are no more. In September, Derulo confirmed during a radio interview that the pair split after almost three years together.

"Irreconcilable differences" claimed another fairy-tale Hollywood marriage when Amber Rose filed for divorce from Wiz Khalifa on September 23. The model-actress-singer sought full custody of the baby boy she shares with her hip-hop husband, according to a Los Angeles County court spokeswoman.

Kris Jenner filed for divorce from Bruce Jenner on September 22. The couple acknowledged they separated in October. "We will always have much love and respect for each other. Even though we are separated, we will always remain best friends and, as always, our family will remain our No. 1 priority," they told E!.

Neil Young had more than a wife in Pegi Young; he also had a musical collaborator and a muse for some of his most classic love songs. But according to Rolling Stone, Young filed for divorce from his wife of 36 years in July.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have been dodging breakup rumors for months. After multiple denials from Cannon, he finally admitted that he and his wife of six years have been "living apart." Carey's rep had no comment.

Tea Leoni and David Duchovny have reportedly made their breakup official. The couple separated in 2011, but they'd done that before and reconciled. However, according to TMZ and People magazine, Leoni and Duchovny quietly filed for divorce in June, bringing an end to their 17-year marriage.

It looks like Michael Strahan and model/TV personality Nicole Murphy aren't going to make it down the aisle. People magazine confirmed that the couple has ended their five-year engagement. "They love each other very much, but with the distance and work schedule it has been hard to maintain the relationship," Strahan's rep told the publication.

On July 2, Jewel announced that she and husband Ty Murray had split up. In a lengthy blog post, the folk singer/songwriter explained that she and her husband of six years had decided to get a divorce, choosing to "release each other" with love so that they "may take on our new form: dear friends and devoted co-parents of our beloved son Kase."

After five years of romance, Rick Fox and Eliza Dushku parted ways. It seems it was distance that came between the former basketball star and the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actress -- Dushku told The Boston Globe that "Rick's an L.A. guy and I'm a Boston girl." As a result, she has moved back to Beantown and plans to eventually enroll in college.

Actors Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs surprisingly decided to separate after 10 years of marriage, a rep for the couple confirmed to People magazine in December. The couple's son, Walker, was born in 2009.

Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas "thoughtfully and consensually" brought an end to their 20-year marriage in June. The two actors released a statement announcing their breakup after reports indicated Griffith had filed for a divorce.

On June 6, the rumors about Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart turned out to be true. A source close to Lopez told CNN that the infamously May-December couple had ended their romance after dating for three years.

Actors Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell recently separated after nearly two years of marriage. The couple, who welcomed a son in July 2013, said in a statement that they plan to remain close friends.

Sofia Vergara recently announced via her WhoSay account that her engagement to producer Nick Loeb is off. The "Modern Family" star blamed the breakup on their busy schedules.

After 20 years of marriage, Cuba Gooding Jr. and his wife, Sara Kapfer, have split up. The actor's wife filed for legal separation on April 21. According to TMZ, the pair were high school sweethearts who went on to have three children together.

Rapper Big Sean and "Glee" actress Naya Rivera called off their engagement in April, six months after announcing their plans to wed. Rivera moved on from Big Sean to marry friend Ryan Dorsey in July.

On the April 4 episode of Katie Couric's talk show, "Katie," singer Richard Marx discussed being "back on the market" after a 25-year marriage to Cynthia Rhodes. The couple separated in July 2013 and announced their divorce in April.

"It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate," Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin wrote on Paltrow's site Goop in a March 25 post titled "Conscious Uncoupling." The A-list pair, who have been married for 10 years, reportedly took a "breakup moon" in the Bahamas following their surprising announcement.

The "Big World" of TLC stars Matt and Amy Roloff has been split in half. The couple, who'd been together for 26 years and came to fame on the reality series "Little People, Big World," announced in March that they're embarking on a trial separation.

According to TMZ, Khloe Kardashian filed for divorce from Lamar Odom in December. The couple met, got engaged and married within a month in 2009, and they were the subject of the E! reality series "Khloe & Lamar."

After a six-year relationship, Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom announced in October that they had decided to formally separate. TMZ indicated that the pair were planning to divorce. The couple, who share a son, said in a statement that they remain amicable.

In September, Liam Hemsworth's rep confirmed rampant speculation that the actor and Miley Cyrus had ended their year-long engagement. The couple first met on the set of 2010's "The Last Song" and had been off and on since then.

Movie veteran Clint Eastwood and his wife of 17 years, Dina, separated over the summer of 2013, according to People. They have one daughter together.

George Clooney and Stacy Keibler were going strong -- and looking hot on the red carpet -- for two years. But in July 2013, their photogenic romance came to an end.

"Vampire Diaries" stars Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder had a relationship that sizzled on and off the small screen. But the two shocked fans when anonymous sources confirmed to People in May 2013 that the co-stars were no longer a couple after dating for "several years."

Jane Seymour and James Keach announced the end of their 20-year union in April 2013. The couple are the parents of twin sons.

Julianne Hough and Ryan Seacrest decided to take a break in March 2013 after more than two years together, People reported. The duo's busy schedules were to blame, but they plan to stay friends, sources told the magazine.

In September 2012, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler separated after nine years of marriage. They have two sons.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes "amicably settled" their divorce in July 2012, just two weeks after Holmes filed for it, an attorney said. Holmes and Cruise, who were married for five years, have one daughter.

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver separated in May 2011 after 25 years of marriage. The public has since learned of Schwarzenegger's affair with the family's housekeeper that resulted in the birth of his fifth child.

After almost seven years together, Kate Winslet and director Sam Mendes went their separate ways in March 2010. The couple said that the split was mutual and that they would continue raising their children together.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman collaborated on four films together, including the controversial "Eyes Wide Shut," during their 11-year marriage. The couple split in 2001.

Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins split in 2009 after 23 years together. The pair, who met on the set of "Bull Durham," have two sons but never married.

Mia Farrow appeared in several of Woody Allen's films before the couple went their separate ways in 1992. The pair reportedly split after Farrow found out about Allen's sexual relationship with one of her adopted daughters, whom Allen married in 1997.

MTV "Newlyweds" Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey split in 2005 after their three-year marriage.

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe were married for seven years before calling it quits in 2006. The pair, who have two children, finalized their divorce in 2008.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's seven-year romance came to an end in 2005. Speculation over whether Angelina Jolie had anything to do with the breakup added a juicy angle to the split.

Perhaps Hollywood's happiest divorced couple, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, split in 1998 after a 10-year relationship. They have three daughters.

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Anaconda eats man alive?

• Naturalist says he wore a special suit and was swallowed by a giant green anaconda


• "The last thing I saw was her mouth wide open before everything went black"


• Paul Rosolie says he survived the ordeal and the snake is fine, too

(CNN) -- Paul Rosolie says he was eaten alive by a giant green anaconda, the largest and most powerful snake in the world.

The herpetologist, naturalist and author presented himself as prey to the snake after putting on a special reinforced suit with helmet and devices to measure his vital signs, he says in a press release on the Discovery Channel website.

"She got me right in the face," he said. "The last thing I saw was her mouth wide open before everything went black. As this happened, she wrapped around me and took me off of my feet. I felt the suit cracking. It felt as if my arms were ripping out of their sockets."

Rosolie doesn't say much about the experience in the western Amazon, which was filmed in advance, because he wants everybody to tune into Discovery Channel's "Eaten Alive" show 9 p.m. Sunday ET.

Anaconda to eat man alive on TV

Did guy get eaten alive by snake?

However, he did say he spent an hour inside the snake, which was difficult because he's claustrophobic.

Some animal rights organizations complained but he says the snake came out fine. "I would not have done this if there were any real chance of hurting or stressing out the snake," he said.

Next, he wants to find the biggest anaconda.

"During an earlier expedition in the Amazon, we encountered a 26-foot-long anaconda that weighed hundreds of pounds," he said. "The snake for the 'Eaten Alive' project was big, about 18 feet long, but we know that there are even larger anacondas out there.

Parents, is your teen NIFOC?

• Acronyms are widely used across the Internet, especially on social media and texting apps


• Some acronyms can be a shorthand for sex, drugs and alcohol


• Experts say parents should be aware of acronyms and talk to their children about them


• Expert: "Asking kids not only gives you great information, but it shows that you're paying attention"

Editor's note: Kelly Wallace is CNN's digital correspondent and editor-at-large covering family, career and life. She is a mom of two girls. Read her other columns on digital life and follow her reports at CNN Parents and on Twitter.

(CNN) -- If you think you are tech savvy all because you know what "LOL" means, let me test your coolness.

Any idea what "IWSN" stands for in Internet slang?

It's a declarative statement: I want sex now.

If it makes you feel any better, I had no clue, and neither did a number of women I asked about it.

Acronyms are widely popular across the Internet, especially on social media and texting apps, because, in some cases, they offer a shorthand for communication that is meant to be instant.

READ: Chances are, your teen has sexted

Teen likes: The '100 club'

Talking to teens about social media

Why Zuckerberg's sister says to log off

So "LMK" -- let me know -- and "WYCM" -- will you call me? -- are innocent enough.

But the issue, especially for parents, is understanding the slang that could signal some dangerous teen behavior, such as "GNOC,'" which means "get naked on camera."

And it certainly helps for a parent to know that "PIR" means parent in room, which could mean the teen wants to have a conversation about things that his or her mom and dad might not approve of.

Katie Greer is a national Internet safety expert who has provided Internet and technology safety training to schools, law enforcement agencies and community organizations throughout the country for more than seven years.

She says research shows that a majority of teens believe that their parents are starting to keep tabs on their online and social media lives.

"With that, acronyms can be used by kids to hide certain parts of their conversations from attentive parents," Greer said. "Acronyms used for this purpose could potentially raise some red flags for parents."

READ: 10 signs you might be addicted to your smartphone

CNN's Kelly Wallace talked to experts and reviewed sites to come up with a list of acronyms for parents.

But parents would drive themselves crazy, she said, if they tried to decode every text, email and post they see their teen sending or receiving.

"I've seen some before and it's like 'The Da Vinci Code,' where only the kids hold the true meanings (and most of the time they're fairly innocuous)," she said.

Still, if parents come across any acronyms they believe could be problematic, they should talk with their kids about them, said Greer.

But how, on earth, is a parent to keep up with all these acronyms, especially since new ones are being introduced every day?

"It's a lot to keep track of," Greer said. Parents can always do a Google search if they stumble upon an phrase they aren't familiar with, but the other option is asking their children, since these phrases can have different meanings for different people.

"Asking kids not only gives you great information, but it shows that you're paying attention and sparks the conversation around their online behaviors, which is imperative."

READ: Teen 'like' and FOMO anxiety

Don't miss out on the conversation we're having at CNN Living. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest stories and tell us what's influencing your life.

Micky Morrison, a mom of two in Islamorada, Florida, says she finds Internet acronyms "baffling, annoying and hilarious at the same time."

She's none too pleased that acronyms like "LOL" and "OMG" are being adopted into conversation, and already told her 12-year-old son -- whom she jokingly calls "deprived," since he does not have a phone yet -- that acronym talk is not allowed in her presence.

But the issue really came to a head when her son and his adolescent friends got together and were all "ignoring one another with noses in their phones," said Morrison, founder of BabyWeightTV.

"I announced my invention of a new acronym: 'PYFPD.' Put your freaking phone down."

LOL!

But back to the serious issue at hand, below are 28 Internet acronyms, which I learned from Greer and other parents I talked with, as well as from sites such as NoSlang.com and NetLingo.com, and from Cool Mom Tech's 99 acronyms and phrases that every parent should know.

After you read this list, you'll likely start looking at your teen's texts in a whole new way.

1. IWSN - I want sex now

2. GNOC - Get naked on camera

3. NIFOC - Naked in front of computer

4. PIR - Parent in room

5 CU46 - See you for sex

6. 53X - Sex

7. 9 - Parent watching

8. 99 - Parent gone

9. 1174' - Party meeting place

10. THOT - That hoe over there

11. CID - Acid (the drug)

12. Broken - Hungover from alcohol

13. 420 - Marijuana

14. POS - Parent over shoulder

15. SUGARPIC - Suggestive or erotic photo

16. KOTL - Kiss on the lips

17. (L)MIRL - Let's meet in real life

18. PRON - Porn

19. TDTM - Talk dirty to me

20. 8 - Oral sex

21. CD9 - Parents around/Code 9

22. IPN - I'm posting naked

23. LH6 - Let's have sex

24. WTTP - Want to trade pictures?

25. DOC - Drug of choice

26. TWD - Texting while driving

27. GYPO - Get your pants off

28. KPC- Keeping parents clueless

Know any other Internet acronyms parents should learn about? Tell Kelly Wallace on Twitter or CNN Living on Facebook .

Battle rages on in besieged city

• Weeks of fighting between Kurds and ISIS have devastated the Kurdish city of Kobani


• Some people remain but food and fuel are scarce and mortars rain down


• Female Kurdish fighters are among those battling ISIS in the shell-blasted streets


• "I lost a lot of friends in this war and I resist to avenge their death," says one fighter

Kobani, Syria (CNN) -- When violence swallows a city as wholly as it has Kobani, as in so many of Syria's mottled cities, the fight becomes about who wins, rather than what is left for the victor.

Its streets have been so ground down to the bone, that the prize -- so small but so intensely fought over -- is now unrecognizable.

Every time you open your eyes in Kobani, you see the damage.

INTERACTIVE: Explore the devastation of this Syrian city

There are people still there, but it is hard to gauge how many. Food is scarce, as is fuel for heat. And day and night, indiscriminate, homemade mortars rain down on Kurdish homes -- ISIS borrowing a technique, it seems, from the Syrian regime, and using domestic gas canisters and junk metal to kill or maim civilians.

CNN crosses into ISIS wreckage

"Every time you open your eyes in Kobani, you see the damage," writes CNN's Nick Paton Walsh. "There are people still there, but it is hard to gauge how many."

"To the city's east, is the most hotly contested front line," Walsh says. "We are led there by Meedya Raqqa, the pseudonym of a 22- year-old Kurdish female fighter."

"Amid all the machismo war usually generates, it is jarring to see the defense of this city performed by women in their early 20s. They are very emotionally in touch with each other, often hugging. The polar opposite of ISIS's worldview."

"It is hard to know what will be left to celebrate once the fighting ends but... the intensity of the battle remains clear."

Fighting rages in city devastated by war

Fighting rages in city devastated by war

Fighting rages in city devastated by war

Fighting rages in city devastated by war

Fighting rages in city devastated by war

Iraqi Kurds join fight for Kobani

Reinforcements arrive in Kobani

CNN witnesses 'major battle' in Kobani

You can hear the clank of these metal shards bouncing on the street outside as you try to sleep.

Airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS -- often three thuds in rapid succession -- shake the very ground you are lying on. They have held ISIS back, but not enough for the Kurds.

From what we saw, the front lines appear much more toward the city's center than some Kurdish advocates would suggest. To the city's west, too, ISIS fighters are nearer than sometimes advertised. This is a fight that is still in the balance.

To the city's east is the most hotly contested front line. We are led there by Meedya Raqqa, the pseudonym of a 22-year-old Kurdish female fighter.

In a testament to the egalitarian way the Kurds live, she is this unit's commander. She has been fighting ISIS for two years -- almost since the Sunni extremist group's beginning.

ISIS fighters have been as close as five yards away from her. She has lost friends here, but also made them.

READ: At least 40 fighters killed in Syrian city of Kobani

'I resist to avenge their death'

"I lost a lot of friends in this war and I resist to avenge their death," she tells me. "No matter the destruction in Kobani, it can be built again -- the important thing is to destroy this strange enemy that entered our land."

The hardest loss to bear is that of her closest friend Reeban early this year. The Kurds have been fighting a lot longer than coalition airstrikes have been falling.

"I lost my best friend eight months ago. She killed herself to save her friends and the injured around her," Raqqa said.

"These are the difficult moments that we live, but I told you we gain strength from these martyrs. They are difficult moments that make you do more to avenge their death to make her dreams come true. The road she began, you finish."

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Boy lost foot to ISIS, vows to fight

The psychological importance of Kobani

The death itself was heroic and chilling. Reeban was surrounded but also injured. Her fellow fighters were too. They had used all their ammunition.

"Reeban pulled back the injured. She advanced while injured and then ISIS surrounded her. Girls are very prized by ISIS. She blew herself up. She killed a lot of them with her. Her last words to me were: 'We will liberate our land with the last drop of blood in my body.'"

READ: Report: Children say ISIS captured, beat them on way home from exams

Breaking the rules

Amid all the machismo war usually generates, it is jarring to see the defense of this city performed by women in their early 20s. They are very emotionally in touch with each other, often hugging -- the polar opposite of ISIS' worldview.

"Kurdish women's resistance will show the world a new history of women in which (women) can break all the rules that have no real basis in customs or traditions," said Raqqa.

But first, the fight for Kobani.

She leads us through a series of holes made in the walls of buildings rendered skeletal by the fighting in the east.

One official called the city "Kobanigrad," after the city whose people and essence the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin sacrificed to make a point.

Scavenged, aging weapons

It is hard to know what will be left to celebrate once the fighting ends, but up on the gun position she takes us to, the intensity of the battle remains clear.

Heavy machine guns try to hit ISIS in the rubble. ISIS fighters lie dead in the no-man's land between the two front lines -- distant in their decay from the glorious death of which ISIS propaganda often talks.

One navy machine gun jams repeatedly. This is a war the Kurds are still fighting with aging, scavenged weapons, even though pinpoint munitions fall from coalition jets onto their common enemy. Their fighters' repeated plea is for better weaponry.

Across no-man's land, you can hear ISIS call out "Alla-u-akhbar," God is the greatest -- the group's common rallying cry.

The Kurds, also Muslims, mock it gently. Their two views of civilization are almost millennia apart, but now separated by a stretch of icy mud, increasingly smaller than they would like.

READ: Iraqi Kurdish fighters cross from Turkey to join Kobani fight

CNN's Raja Razek contributed to this report.

Aziz Ansari tweets #GhostPlane script

Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari may have hit movie gold during a boring flight.

• Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari got bored on a flight Sunday


• He started tweeting ideas for a film about a haunted plane


• Unfortunately, the tale ended on a cliffhanger

(CNN) -- Well, that's one way to crowdsource.

"Parks and Recreation" star Aziz Ansari tweeted Sunday that he was bored on a flight, and what followed had all of the makings of a Hollywood movie.

The comic questioned why there has never been a film about a haunted plane: "Wouldn't that be dope?" He then started tweeting ideas and a script for a project he dubbed "Ghost Plane."

Quicker than you could say "I'll make you a star," #GhostPlane took off.

Bored on my flight and just wondering - why has there never been a movie about a haunted airplane? Wouldn't that be dope?

— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) December 8, 2014

"Dude. For real. Is any studios into GHOST PLANE? I can make it cheap. It's all one location. Just the plane," Ansari tweeted.

Dude. For real. Is any studios into GHOST PLANE? I can make it cheap. It's all one location. Just the plane.

— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) December 8, 2014

The idea goes like this, according to Ansari's tweets: "Open on Indian guy RAJ (Aziz Ansari) saying bye to his parents. He gets on the plane. But this plane is actually a GHOST PLANE. #GhostPlane."

Open on Indian guy RAJ (Aziz Ansari) saying bye to his parents. He gets on the plane. But this plane is actually a GHOST PLANE. #GhostPlane

— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) December 8, 2014

"Raj uses the plane washroom pre-takeoff. He sees a face in the mirror. 'This might be a ghost' he thinks.... #GhostPlane," the actor added.

Raj uses the plane washroom pre-take off. He sees a face in the mirror. "This might be a ghost" he thinks.... #GhostPlane

— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) December 8, 2014

Don't even worry about casting. There's a role for Jennifer Lawrence as "Flight attendant Anne" and fellow Academy Award winner Tom Hanks as "The Captain." But our favorite character might be embodied in this tweet: "A mysterious man in a hoodie: 'If you want to stop the dolls. You need my help.' He lifts the hood: ITS LIAM NEESON AS HIMSELF! #GhostPlane."

A mysterious man in a hoodie: "If you want to stop the dolls. You need my help." He lifts the hood: ITS LIAM NEESON AS HIMSELF! #GhostPlane

— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) December 8, 2014

Because of course it's Liam freaking Neeson.

Fans were really into it. On person tweeted, "Now I can't sleep because @azizansari is telling the most magnificent story #GhostPlane" while another said, "A studio needs to pick up @azizansari's #GhostPlane IMMEDIATELY. If not we'll just make a kickstarter. It'll be cheap."

Now I can't sleep because @azizansari is telling the most magnificent story #GhostPlane

— Alex Dixon (@alex_dixon_13) December 8, 2014

A studio needs to pick up @azizansari's #GhostPlane IMMEDIATELY. If not we'll just make a kickstarter. It'll be cheap.

— Ian Eastwood (@Ian_Eastwood) December 8, 2014

We will have to wait to see how it all pans out.

Ansari said, "Sorry everyone. #GhostPlane is on pause. I just got home and have to be up early to shoot Parks. I'll try to finish this sometime."

Sorry everyone. #GhostPlane is on pause. I just got home and have to be up early to shoot Parks. I'll try to finish this sometime.

— Aziz Ansari (@azizansari) December 8, 2014

What a cliffhanger.

Student leader ends hunger strike

• Hong Kong teenage protest leader ends hunger strike


• Joshua Wong said it was "only way" to get government to agree to talks


• Strike was seen as an attempt to rally a flagging movement

Hong Kong (CNN) -- The Hong Kong teenager who has become the face of pro-democracy protests in the city ended his hunger strike on Saturday for health reasons.

Joshua Wong started the hunger strike on Monday, December 1, telling CNN it was the "only way" to get the government to agree to talks.

A statement on his Facebook page said that the strike lasted for 108 hours and he ended it on the advice of his doctor. He said he felt "extremely unwell" and his blood sugar was very low.

Hong Kong leader vows to 'keep turning up'

HK protest leaders turn themselves in

The 18-year-old activist, who leads a student group called Scholarism, wants open elections for Hong Kong's next leader, but Beijing has said Hong Kong may only hold elections if candidates are nominated by a small committee.

Wong's hunger strike was seen as an attempt to rally a movement which has shown growing signs of fracture.

Protesters have camped more than two months on an eight-lane highway in Hong Kong's Admiralty district, but the government has shown no willingness to make concessions.

The movement's momentum has sputtered and leaders of different protest groups are split over what action to take.

READ: Who is Joshua Wong