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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...

Thousands of children are likely to have been separated from their families as a result of the latest violence in South Sudan, an aid agency warns.

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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(Reuters) - The securities regulator has asked life insurers to disclose the potential cost of forcibly winding down in-house insurance units known as 'captives,' whose business model has come under regulatory radar, the...

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...

Bradford Bulls announce the directors who stood down on Christmas Eve will lead the club again to help resolve its future.

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 ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook took a $4 million pay cut this year, after he urged the company's board of directors to link half of his stock grants -- which make up the bulk of his compensation -- to the company's performance on Wa...

(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.     

A top Chinese political adviser, who was once an aide to ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang, is being investigated for corruption, the government says.

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

Police are continuing to question two men arrested after a fire broke out on a North Sea ferry, with five people later flown to hospital.