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The modern era has been full of incredible urban growth spurts, from New York City in the first half of the 20th century to Shanghai and Dubai in the past twenty years. For some perspective, check out a collection of...

Workers in Harbin, China are gearing up for the city's 30th annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, a massive installation of sculptures and buildings made from ice.  The festival officially begins January 5th. According t...

While Michael Schumacher never competed in the IndyCar Series, the close-knit open-wheel community is banding together with Indy drivers sending the seven-time world champion their support. Legendary Formula 1 champion M...

A McDonald's restaurant in Taiwan has been dressing its female cashiers in schoolgirl uniforms and pink maid outfits and having them address customers as "master," according to a Japanese news website.  The skimpy outfi...

It's Black Monday, the worst day of the year for NFL coaches, assistant coaches, and their families. Before noon, five of the league's 32 head coaches were fired. Rob Chudzinski, Cleveland Browns — Fired after going 4-...

Companies that pay salaries of over one million euros will have to pay a 75 percent payroll tax for the next two years.     

Austria has produced many of the world's greatest skiers, and another made her mark on the history books in front of her home crowd on Sunday.

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Assessment says progress over past three years likely to be eroded by 2017, while some say prediction is pessimistic.

Police in the northwest region of Xinjiang killed eight people after what they are calling a "terrorist attack".

PETA wonders whether children might be the next victims of New Hampshire state Rep. David Campbell (D). An official from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released a statement to TPM on Monday saying he wants l...

A male student at Ohio University faces felony charges after allegedly blackmailing a fellow student into having sex with him, The Columbus Dispatch reports. 19-year-old OU student Dorian Graham allegedly posed as a wom...

Beyoncé is apologizing after including audio from the space shuttle Challenger disaster that killed seven people in her new song "XO," about a troubled relationship. The audio clip of now-retired NASA public affairs ...

(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co will pay a net $541 million to Fannie Mae to settle claims over defective home loans, completing the government-controlled mortgage company's efforts to have banks buy back troubled loans mad...

MOSCOW (AP) -- An explosion on a trolleybus in the city of Volgograd left 10 people dead Monday, a day after a suicide bombing that killed at least 17 at the city's main railway.     

Two Massachusetts women helped resuscitate a six-month old baby who had stopped breathing on board a flight to Puerto Rico earlier this month, and helped keep the baby breathing for two tense hours until the plane was ab...

BEIJING (AP) -- Authorities in western China say that police under attack from "terrorists" fatally shot eight of them and captured a ninth.     

China bans officials from smoking in public to set example in country where lighting up common     

Amid new surge in decade-old conflict, UN secretary-general urges Sudanese government to bring killers to justice.

Your opportunity to be a "micro-entrepreneur": By cleaning other people's homes or renting out your spare room. Thomas Friedman, and others, have recently extolled the virtues of the sharing economy (see "Welcome to the ...

The country's Constitutional Council said the tax, on companies that pay annual salaries of more than 1 million euros, was legal.     

A recent CNN poll tells us the obvious: Americans overwhelmingly think the Afghanistan War is a giant fail. The poll shows the war is the least popular in recent U.S. history. Gallup has similar numbers. From CNN: Just 1...