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How chilled food is changing lives Before pooling savings from her extended family to buy a refrigerator, Sheela Naik, who earns $80 a month as a housemaid on the outskirts of Goa, had to shop daily at market stalls and ...

Renderings of this futuristic Floating City (via Dezeen) could very easily pass for the storyboard of a Hollywood sci-fi flick set in the distant future. But this design for a floating city, by London-based architecture ...

Steven Spielberg’s classic “E.T.” is heralded as one of the director’s best works today. It’s also one of the highest-grossing.  However, you may not realize the film about a friendly extraterrestrial was orig...

Mac: You'll find a ton of syncing notes apps out there, but we like the iOS version of Write because it manages to toe the line between simplicity and feature-packed. The new Mac app makes that experience even better.

Two teenage sisters were raped and killed by attackers who hung their bodies from a mango tree in Katra village in Uttar Pradesh. Villagers found the girls' bodies hanging from the tree early Wednesday, hours after they ...

Scott DeLong. Dong Nguyen. Amanda Hocking. All of those people found a way to create something and turn it into $1 million or more, quickly. Inspired by their stories, we found 11 unusual ways to make a relatively quick...

Scientists at Michigan State University say they have developed a system that turns cow manure into clean water, which is as gross as it is impressive.  

Donetsk leader calls for more Russian 'peacekeepers' to fight Ukrainian forces following battle for city's airport.

Einstein is wrong? That's the potential outcome of a quantum mechanics study as scientists race to disprove his views on entanglement.

Sceintists found ancient graffiti in a monument thousands of tourists pass through every day

Samantha Stosur of Australia won her third round match at the French Open in straight sets. But what has sports fans buzzing is what may be the most sculpted body at this year's tournament. Stosur recently told ESPN the ...

Sriram Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe have serious bragging rights: they both correctly spelled so many words that they basically shut down the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday. After Hathwar, 14, spelled "stichomythia...

Kurt Eichenwald, who wrote about many of the National Security Agency programs that Edward Snowden's documents described first in 2007, has a series of 16 skeptical questions for the former NSA-CIA analyst that NBC News ...

SpaceX founder takes next step in private-sector race to provide Nasa with transport to and from international space station Elon Musk has taken the wraps off a new spacecraft designed to ferry up to seven astronauts to ...

Ukraine's President-elect Petro Poroshenko vows to punish "bandits" after pro-Russian rebels shot down an army helicopter, killing 12 people.

Actor Mathew Perry has listed his modern Malibu retreat overlooking the ocean for $12.5 million. Known as the “Pier House," the architecturally gorgeous estate sits on 2.5 acres in the celebrity-studded neighborhood of...

The parents of deranged killer Elliot Rodger have broken their silence about the horrible events that unfolded at UC Santa Barbara six days ago. On Thursday, family spokesman and friend Simon Astaire read a statement fro...

WASHINGTON -- Tanning beds and sun lamps will carry new warnings that they should not be used by anyone under age 18, part of a government action announced Thursday aimed...

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ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri-based Army drill sergeant has been accused of sexually assaulting 12 female soldiers during the past three years, including several while he was deployed in Afghanistan....

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Four men had a terrifying few moments when the glass floor they were standing on 103 stories above Chicago in the Willis Tower observation deck appeared to develop cracks. The...