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It's the train that Muggles have been waiting for. New details have emerged about the upcoming attractions at Universal Studios' Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and apparently the Hogwarts Express ride is going to be ki...

Substance.com has put together an interesting infographic showing how Americans spent money on illegal drugs from 2000 to 2010. The data comes from a study by the RAND Corporation for the U.S. Office of National Drug Co...

Smoking has all but disappeared from popular media, and that’s indisputably a good thing. After more than 50 years of restrictive new laws and public health education, tobacco use is waning in most Western countries. I...

Airbnb gone very, very wrong.

Last week, we learned that the amount of U.S. Treasury securities held in custody for international accounts plunged by $104.5 billion during the week ending March 12. To be clear, this does not mean those securities wer...

Veterans affairs minister Michael Ronaldson says $211.60 a year bonus to be cut 'as a necessary consequence' of mining tax repeal. Michael Safi

Rapper Tyler, The Creator was arrested yesterday on misdemeanor charges of inciting a riot at his SXSW show, and now there's video of him encouraging a crowd of hundreds of fans to force their way into the Austin venue.

Iowa-based startup Dwolla has made a name for itself with its rather painless approach to sending money over the Internet — sending someone $10 or less is free. Sending more than $10 costs $0.25. That's all there is to...

Mick Jagger’s model-turned-designer girlfriend L’Wren Scott, 49, killed herself in a Manhattan apartment Monday, police have confirmed. Her assistant reportedly found her hanging by a scarf inside the Eighth Floor ap...

"The Lion King" stunned Broadway at year's end as the No. 1 earner for the first time since 2003, bumping off the champ, "Wicked."     

Airbnb might spread its wings and become more than just site for renting vacation homes for a weekend getaway. "Our business isn't [renting] the house," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says in an interview with Fast Company. "Ou...

T-minus 14 days until open enrollment closes for ObamaCare. It is crunch time for thousands as they decide if they want to enroll, and ultimately how much of a tax credit to accept in order to determine their first premi...

The HTC Desire 816 does seem as though it is shaping up to be a fairly decent mid-range handset, where we have already gotten our hands-on for a quick review. Well, it also looks set to make waves in the world's most pop...

Although Apple's iPhone software is generally less susceptible to malware than Android, that doesn't mean iOS is completely immune to security issues.  A security researcher has claimed that iOS 7, the current iPhone an...

Nicole Kidman, Marc Jacobs and more mourn the fasyion designer.

Colby Procyk has a feline to thank for helping him improve as a reader.

The Gazelle Project. That's what Amazon called its initiative to cajole book publishers into giving them better deals. According to The New Yorker, CEO Jeff Bezos said “that Amazon should approach these small publishe...

The Pentagon says that a team of Navy SEALs has boarded the oil freighter "Morning Glory" in the Mediterranean that had been seized by three armed Libyans. No one was hurt in the raid, which took place late Sunday in int...

Crackdown in Egypt on ousted president's backers sees 16,000 detained, many reports of abuses

Charity finds country's five richest families own more wealth than poorest 20% of population and appeals to chancellor over tax The scale of Britain's growing inequality is revealed today by a report from a leading chari...

LAZARO CARDENAS, Mexico (AP) -- Forget crystal meth. The pseudo-religious Knights Templar drug cartel in western Mexico has diversified to the point that drug trafficking doesn't even rank among its top sources of income...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks says a onetime Osama bin Laden spokesman who is on trial in New York had no role in planning military operations for al-Qaida.