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Despite countless architectural renderings to the contrary, the top of a skyscraper is actually a terrible place for trees. Tim de Chant breaks down all the reasons in Arch Daily, citing brutal winds that buckle tree tru...

• Webber's father says his son will be at the Chinese Grand Prix• Bernie Ecclestone hits out at team orders so early in season The Red Bull driver, Mark Webber, is not about to immediately turn his back on Fo...

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The world has a new lightest solid material. Graphene aerogel weighs just 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimetre, making it just twice as dense as...

"Have you ever looked up the word 'intercourse' in the dictionary?" Cliff said, gruffly. He was an 87-year-old resident of Bayberry Care Center. I was a high school recreation volunteer. "Well," he said, "I never had it....

Out of the world's estimated 7 billion people, six billion have access to mobile phones. Far fewer -- only 4.5 billion people -- have access to working toilets

Nick D’Aloisio, a programming whiz who wasn’t even born when Yahoo was founded in 1994, sold his news-reading app, Summly, to Yahoo.

Fresh out of the Police Academy, many of the 59 recruits sworn in today will become the latest front in Chicago's battle against gangs and crime.

The singer is more than $10 million in debt stemming from mismanagement.

Dealing with disappointment is no easy skill. But without that skill, you face years of distraction and wasted effort. All of us get disappointed.  It happens in business, in sports, and in your personal life.  Cha...

A colorful and energetic festival, Holi is celebrated by Hindus throughout India, and traditionally heralds the beginning of spring. While the national holiday occurs on March 27, there are regional versions that take pl...

A Texas biolab lost a vial of Guanarito, a deadly virus from Venezuela.

Talk to most professionals about their ultimate goals, and you’ll get the same responses – work for myself, travel the world, and maybe even win fame and fortune. Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startu...

Discussion in court touched on legal standing, the voice of children and the relative newness of gay marriage.

Remember last year when those photos of an insanely muscular - even by NFL standards - LaRon Landry came out? How awed we all were, even after controlling for post-gym muscle inflation? Well, we might just have 2013's an...

An officer who resigned from Greater Manchester Police over its handling of sex abuse cases in Rochdale has told the BBC the victims were let down by the police.

Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that a new bug has temporarily reset Like counts and comment threads on sites sporting its Like buttons and Comments plugin. Luckily, all the counts and comments should be restored so...

Two second-half goals inside 10 minutes from the Serbia forward Filip Djuricic gave Gordon Strachan much to ponder as his much-changed Scotland side succumbed to familiar defensive failings in trying conditions in Serbia...

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Parents are angry that Victoria's Secret customers keep getting younger.  While the brand insists that its Pink line markets to college students 18 and older, comments from a Limited Brands executive suggested that ev...

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Two trailers hit the Web today for the newest mutant superhero movie, The Wolverine, and the first thing you'll notice is -- Hugh Jackman might've worked out a bit for this movie, eh?