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Can an old pearl regain its original luster? For Bracli, creators of the world-renowned pearl thong, the question isn’t academic. The company whose orgasmic invention brought Kim Cattrall to her knees (literally) on Se...

63 people have died since the outbreak began last week

A series of questionable business dealings by Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company) has been affecting the standing of the president, Dilma Rousseff. Before taking office as president in 2011...

Nowadays, we spend nearly 6 hours each day staring at a display, whether it’s a desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet. After looking at screens all day, your eyes may start to feel a bit off, which means you may be suf...

Armed groups are increasingly forging links across the border of Syria and Iraq, fuelling sectarian tensions, UN says.

The probe comes after years of mounting pressure and several U.S.-led resolutions

Brandon Wade has built a controversial online dating empire based around the concept that it's perfectly OK for people — men, mostly — to pay women for dates and relationships. Wade even believes in bribing women to ...

BOMBARDOPOLIS, Haiti (AP) -- Jean-Romain Beltinor plunged a hoe into the rocky dirt on his parched hillside to prepare for planting seeds he does not have.     

WASHINGTON -- The flight simulator and hard drives that the pilots of Flight 370 had at their homes appear to be a dead end, yielding few clues that shed any light on whether they deliberately diverted the missing jet, a...

Less than nine months after she shoved her husband off a steep cliff just days into their marriage, a federal judge sentenced Jordan Linn Graham to 30 years in prison Thursday.

PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Planes are searching a new area of the Indian Ocean for possible signs of the Malaysian airliner after a new analysis of radar data suggests the plane flew faster than thought and used up more fu...

The athlete's performance on the stand could spell the difference between life in jail or a chance to resurrect his sporting career

Robert Sillerman is the 64-year-old CEO of SFX Entertainment, the newly public company that produces popular electronic dance music [EDM] festivals like Tomorrowland, Rock in Rio, and Electric Zoo. But Sillerman acted ...

A grenade attack on a funeral in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, has killed 11 people, the Red Cross says.

(LAHORE, Pakistan) -- A court convicted a Pakistani Christian man and sentenced him to death Thursday in a blasphemy case that sparked a riot last year in the eastern city of Lahore, according to his lawyer. Naeem Shakir...

UN Security Council says test-firings were a breach of resolutions after US calls for urgent meeting.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Russian spacecraft ferrying three astronauts has docked at the International Space Station after a delay.     

Austin police say 4th person has died from injuries in South By Southwest wreck

Head down to a county fair in Texas, and you may find helmeted men racing through dirt tracks at bristling speeds on, of all vehicles, lawn mowers. The pastime is a strange motorsport that photographer Jennifer Boomer st...

Australian designer Marc Newson talked to Dezeen about his new line of glasses that will launch in Milan next month and the conversation unsurprisingly lead to Google's smart take on eyewear. The designer took the chance...

Roku has long argued that bigger competitors end up helping Roku when they release streaming-video boxes. Anthony Wood says in the case of main rival Apple, the Apple TV does results in lost money -- for Apple.     

Though shy of the 7 million sign-ups the White House had once hoped for, the number marks a significant milestone ahead of the deadline to enroll.WASHINGTON — With the Monday deadline still a few days away, the White H...