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On Monday night on NBC’s Tonight Show, the First lady Michelle Obama and Olympic gold-medalist gymnast Gabreille “Gabby” Douglas stopped by to Jay Leno. When the Leno asked Gabby how she celebrated her first win at the 2012 London Olympics, Gabby replied that she splurged on a McDonald’s Egg Mcmuffin, to which Mrs. Obama said “you’re setting me back here Gabby.”

On Monday, in what some are considering a defining move to shift power from the hands of the military to civilian authority, newly elected Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi dismissed a number of top military officials and pushed to early retirement Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, who served as the head of ad hoc military council.

On Monday the butler of Pope Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele has been indicted and could face up to six years in prison for stealing and leaking to the press private documents of the Pope, which in turn led to corruption allegations and revealed various tiffs within the Vatican.