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This upside-down house in an old canal town is set to become one of China's newest tourist attractions. (via NBC.) The house, in Fengjing Ancient Town south of Shanghai, has an upside-down exterior structure and interior...

A week ago, Japan, Pikachu, and Adidas inked a massive endorsement deal for the 2014 Brazil World Cup, so we speculated who the other countries should have as their national Pokémon. After much deliberation (and at your...

Hungarian singer Boggie is showing the world the dramatic before-and-after that musicians usually go through in their highly Photoshopped music videos. Throughout the three-minute video for her song "Parfum," watch Boggi...

Following the shocking death of Mick Jagger's girlfriend of over 12 years, fashion designer L'Wren Scott, The Rolling Stones just announced they have postponed the rest of their Australia and New Zealand concert tour. T...

A trombonist who couldn't hold back a sneeze during a church orchestra performance just let it fly directly into his instrument, producing one of the strangest sounds ever heard in classical music.

To cash in online you need to be a game-changer. When Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, there was nothing like it. He is now worth $17.5 billion according to recent Forbes valuations. There are still fortunes to be made...

Razer has just launched a brand new music app that features Afrojack for Razer Blade Pro, which so happens to be the first electronic music initiative with Afrojack. This is a particularly exciting partnership, where the...

A close collaborator of Russian President Vladimir Putin taunted President Barack Obama Monday via Twitter, after the U.S. administration imposed sanctions on Moscow for occupying Crimea and intervening in Ukraine's poli...

Our smartphone cameras are getting better with every version that is released. In fact it is safe to say that in some cases, our smartphone cameras have completely replaced the need for a compact digital camera, unless o...

Elon Musk's high-profile battle to sell Tesla cars directly to consumers is just the latest challenge to state laws that give an advantage to powerful local businesses, even if the legislative justification is often diff...

PopCap is certainly on the right track when it comes to their Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare community, having just announced that a free “Garden Variety Pack” DLC is on its way. After all, sharing is caring, and...

An arrest warrant for Timothy Jay Vafeades, the so-called vampire trucker, claims he beat one of his victims in Polk County just east of Tampa.

Nicholas Teausant was arrested at the Canadian border and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He was allegedly planning to join al-Qaeda in Syria.

In a meeting at the AEI Bill Gates points to what economists will argue is the best possible tax system, the consumption tax. It's worth pointing out the details of quite why economists think this is such a good tax: I t...

Motorola posted the following video teasing the release of its new smartwatch coming this summer called the Moto 360. The video doesn't reveal much information about the device, but discusses how Motorola's designers are...

On Tuesday night, we were introduced to 12 new tributes for the 18th annual Hunger Games season of Dancing With the Stars. The game-makers set the tone for the evening by underscoring Meryl Davis.      

The 30-29 vote was short of the 32 votes needed to pass, a rare defeat for a bill on the floor of the Senate. There are 63 seats, two are vacant, and two senators did not vote.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says there was nothing easy about the decision to impose sanctions on Russia. After the vote in Crimea, the United States and European Union imposed sanctions on Russian and Crimean offici...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Air Canada says it has suspended its flights to and from Venezuela due to civil unrest.     

Following Crimea's referendum Sunday that resulted in a 97 percent vote favoring secession from Ukraine and joining Russia, Great Britain's defense minister said the country will offer NATO six Typhoon fighter jets to he...

Oklahoma announced Tuesday it's delaying two executions after it couldn't get the drugs it needs to perform lethal injections, foreshadowing similar problems that will start affecting other states as drug supplies run th...

Righting an historical wrong, President Obama today awarded the nation's highest military honor to two dozen Army veterans who were previously overlooked, saying "today we have the chance to set the record straight." "No...