Despite having less than half the population of the United States, Japan is second only to China in the amount of cigarette tobacco smoked... and thats your...

Egyptians seem to be enjoying democracy more than Americans have for a long time.

WASHINGTON—Calling a GOP victory in the 2012 presidential election antithetical to the party platform, top Republicans revealed a new long-term political strategy Tuesday: reelecting Barack Obama and making his life even more of a living hell tha...

Neighbors say Kenneth Robinson is a squatter, but he says house is legally his.

A few months post-baby you may not be into your old jeans, but at least you still have those lustrous locks, right? Wrong!

Although Sesame Streets creators have never said that the two characters are gay, viewers have long speculated that roommates Bert and Ernie are more than just friends. Perhaps the petition, started by Illinois resident Lair Scott, was prompted b...

Marco Polos journeys to China and the Far East established him as one of history’s greatest explorers but archeologists now believe he never actually went there.

When the first image of Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle was released online last Friday, the Internet reaction went from meh to meh. This is par for the course when dealing with superhero-costume-first-looks, but lest you think the online handwringi...

Whether you consider it an anachronism or not is little matter: A wedding is a fête, marriage is an institution, and because summer is culturally enshrined as the season for matrimony, there’s no better occasion for exploring the anthropology of ...

Countries such as the United States are avoided by large technology companies because of their high income-tax rates. The U.S. corporate income-tax rate is 35, while the U.K.s is set at 28.

Tired of running around in the same old neighborhood? Maybe you should overthrow a small country instead! Heres how!

Its been a bad stretch recently for dirty coal, the countrys largest source of global warming emissions. First, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stepped up and contributed big time to the Sierra Clubs fierce

Apple has been granted 20 new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

According to a new lawsuit, the Kindle combined with discounted $9.99 e-books so terrified the publishing industry that it joined forces with Apple in a scheme to force Amazon to raise its prices.

What if you mix multi-touch in with that m***ive size? Thats what Perceptive Pixel has done, and theyve just introduced the worlds largest projected capacitive display at the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference.

Elections no longer work. Lobbying no longer works. Email and telephone campaigns no longer work. Symbolic protests no longer work. Americans need to get organized and mobilized to demand what we want. The occupation begins on October 6, 2011 whe...

As Yogi Berra once said its déjà vu all over again as for Wisconsin Democrats as they allege that the Waukesha County clerk is once again tampering with votes to hand an election to the Republicans.

Graphic designer Marko Manev has a large and growing collection of minimalist tributes to Marvel superheros from the Incredible Hulk to Magneto, many of the greats are here. The posters have a nice folded and worn look to them, as if they once pr...

UPDATE: Early this morning we received a call from Honda of San Marcos Pre-Owned manager Ian Jones. We tried to get the dealerships side of the story, but Jones instead focused on our having brought Xao Vangs story to public attention and accused...

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