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Malia Obama's favorite band One Direction were on Ellen yesterday. Blindfolded fans felt them up, the uber-doober British boy band performed a song, and Liam Payne touched Harry Styles in the pooper. You can see it in th...

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Radiation levels at the Martian surface appear to be roughly similar to those experienced by astronauts in low-Earth orbit, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found.

TIME TO TALK TOILETS Over 40% of the world has zero access to a toilet.    People are forced to do their private business in public streets, fields or nearby waterways.  Diseases spread, girls drop out of school...

Personal debt is a huge problem in the US, but some Occupy Wall Street alumni think they have a solution. Since it's possible for banks to sell debt for a fraction of its worth onto third parties who then attempt to coll...

Israel puts 75,000 reservists on stand-by and vows to intensify its Gaza raids after militants target Jerusalem for the first time in decades.

Not being able to feel pain sounds like an okay deal. "No hangovers!" you shout, as you crack your sixth beer of the night. But, here's the thing about the human body: We feel pain so that we don't severely injure oursel...

Allyn Rose lost her mother to breast cancer when she was just a teenager, so after the newly-crowned Miss District of Columbia competes in the Miss America pageant in January, she will undergo a double mastectomy as a pr...

Lucille Bliss has passed away at the age of 96, but her voice lives on through iconic cartoon characters like Smurfette of “The Smurfs,” Anastasia from “Cinderella,” and more recently Yagoda from ...

9-year-old boy charged with murder in toddler's beating death in St. Louis suburb

DAVIE -- Linda Owen may want to cry, but tears won't help feed the hundreds of hungry families needing her help this Thanksgiving -- if she can figure out who some of them are. She turns to answer the phone, which has be...

When you're cooking a big Thanksgiving dinner, you want at least one super-easy side dish to create time for wrestling with the turkey and making complicated desserts. I've got one for you: It's simple, quick, involves a...

Animal hospitals are caring for koalas injured in a large bush fire west of Adelaide.

Today Zulily, a daily deals site for moms, announced it has raised $85 million in Series D funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. According to Fortune, this investment now values the company at $1 billion. "Zulily is one...

Nutella (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When I was in the UK years ago, a friend offered me a slice of bread with a creamy brown spread on top. "Try it," she said, "You'll like it." Like it? I loved it. As in couldn't believe ...

A Missouri man was arrested for planning an Aurora-style shooting during a weekend screening of Twilight.

San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard will be sidelined 10-to-14 days with quadriceps tendinitis in his left knee.An MRI on Friday discovered the injury

Welcome to BR5, your destination for sports and pop culture... The fans are as important to any sport, as the players on the teams who they root for are. They can lift the team, bring them down and are the de facto repre...

This is no time for LeBron James and the Miami Heat to panic. Yes, Dwyane Wade's status after missing a game against the Denver Nuggets is uncertain. Yes, Mario Chalmers is day-to-day with strained triceps (per ESPN's Br...

Former CIA chief says talking points given to UN ambassador were edited to remove classified information about terror group David Petraeus, the former CIA director, told congressional hearings on Friday that he had alway...

As Everton seek to maintain their stampede on the Premier League’s top four places, David Moyes’ side will need to overcome a Reading side that, while struggling at the foot of the table, have shown glimpse...

Can moments of brilliance such as the Swede's wonder goal against England transcend the sporting arena and become art? It's not every day that one hears the manager of the England football team describe an opponent's win...