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Have you ever talked to friends about your underwear? Don’t worry, we’ll start. Underwear shopping sucks. Guys don’t talk about their underwear. MeUndies keeps it brief with the “most comfortable basics in the wo...

It could be the fact that we all have so many of them of them, but we seem to demand more and more from our tools on a daily basis. That applies to pens, too. We like the simplicity of only having a cool ink deployment s...

What makes Harvard the best law school in America?  It's more than just its accomplished faculty, challenging curriculum, and post-grad opportunities—it's also the unbelievably impressive students who walk the Crimson...

"Disappointing" standards in maths among 14 to 16-year-olds in Wales must be tackled, says an education watchdog.

Al Michaels was discussing Matt Schaub's pick-six record and then OH LOOK HE JUST BROKE IT. Video, after the jump.

Ever find something weird in an airplane bathroom? How about $1.4 million in gold? Four men have been arrested for stashing 32 kgs of gold biscuits in the lavatory of an Air India flight, according to the Press Trust of ...

After a certain age, driving becomes a liability. Vision deteriorates, reaction times slow, and just getting into and out of a car safely can prove challenging. But it's not easy to convince someone — especially a pare...

How do you tell the leading man of the wildly successful film adaptations of two of your novels that in the third novel his character is no more? If you're Helen Fielding, you break it to him as gently as possible. Field...

The hitting and fielding of shortstop Andrelton Simmons in Game 2 helped the Braves tie their playoff series with the Dodgers.     

Over the next few years, Twitter could become a Wall Street darling, like Tesla. Jeff Reeves explains why.

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman is signing with the Minnesota Vikings, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

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By now, smart businesses realize the Millennial generation isn't just a bunch of hipsters with smart phones taking selfies but rather a generation of consumers 86 million strong-- that's 7 percent more than baby boomers ...

You are sitting in the window seat in, say, row 12 of an airliner, waiting as the rest of the passengers pile in, dragging most of their belongings as they try to avoid baggage fees. You are hoping, praying, that the emp...

People don't just watch TV anymore; they talk about it on Twitter. From the comfort of couches, they share reactions to touchdowns and nail-biting season finales --and advertisers and networks…

(Reuters) - A terrifying crash put three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti in a Houston hospital with a spinal fracture on Sunday and left over a dozen spectators injured.

The new leader has a plan to sort the sprawling bank's operations by the kinds of projects involved, like agriculture or energy, rather than by region.     

National Review's Robert Costa reports that many House Republicans already hate John Boehner's debt limit plan, which they haven't seen yet. And he has a choice quote from Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) about why he's not prepa...

Authorities have closed West 57th Street between 6th and 7th avenues in Manhattan after a tower crane hoisting a load apparently got stuck about 20 floors up.

Gov't shutdown enters 2nd week with no end in sight, ominous signs about debt limit prospects WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown entered its second week with no end in sight and ominous signs that the United Sta...

Are Americans saving too much? Is that a trick question? The difference between what Americans have saved and what they will need in retirement is $6.6 trillion, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York is expanding its probe nationwide into the 1980s sale of the rights to the name "World Trade Center" to a nonprofit for $10, resulting in millions of dollars in fees for use of the name in 2...