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Andreja Pejic, one of the world's most beautiful women, is now making a documentary to catalog her modeling career and transition from boyhood to androgyny to womanhood.

Scratchy nylon princess gown. Check! Headache-inducing plastic tiara. Check! My 6-year-old daughter, Daisy, obsessively planned her Queen Elsa outfit for Disney on Ice's "Frozen" for weeks. Only when we were...

When you're running across crumbling rooftops in Paris, it's hard to stop and think about the historical accuracy of the setting around you. And when you're chasing your mark down tight, winding streets, rarely do you qu...

Bats aren't blind, sharks get cancer, and your tongue isn't divided up into different areas for each taste -- all of your taste buds can sense bitter, sour, salty, sweet, and umami flavors. Over at Information is Beautif...

Seriously, outside of an airplane, I don’t think I’ve ever traveled at 207 miles per hour (or 333 kilometers per hour, if you’re metric). Swiss cyclist François Gissy, however, just set a speed record on a rocket-...

An eyewitness at the theater says the woman "flipped out" when he tapped her on the shoulder

The United Nations, on Monday, announced the formation of an "internal and independent" board of inquiry to investigate attacks on U.N. premises in the Gaza Strip during the recently concluded 50-day war, according to a ...

Ramotar suspends parliament for six months to avert a no-confidence vote, which the opposition brought to parliament.

The judo-fighting, rifle-shooting, shirtless bachelor also known as President Vladimir Putin has been shunned — after a fashion — by the First Lady of China 62-year-old Putin made a chivalrous move during meal time a...

This man knows how to work a crowd.

itwbennett writes: Germany's foreign intelligence agency reportedly wants to spend €300 million (about $375 million) in the next five years on technology that would let it spy in real time on social networks outside of...

WASHINGTON -- The first battle line drawn between President Obama and a resurgent Republican party is not, it turns out, over immigration.

Phil Falcone's controversial move to take a steel-fabrication firm private has landed him in court. A shareholder suit that seeks class-action status charges that the board of Schuff International --...

The attacks come amid heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians

Lee Jun-seok, 69, was convicted of deserting the Sewol as it sank in April, killing more than 300 people, most of them high school students on a field trip.

Country's top prosecutor captures mood of growing dissatisfaction with government response.

New York City will change its policy on possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving police officers the option of writing offenders a ticket instead of taking them into custody, city officials said Monday at a press...

An American doctor who became the first person to be diagnosed in New York with Ebola is to be released from hospital on Tuesday after recovering.

Two days of high-level talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran's nuclear program ended on Monday without an apparent breakthrough, according to media reports. U.S. and Iranian officials reportedly said that ...

At least 50 people die in an accident in involving a bus and a lorry in southern Pakistan.

KAILUA-KONA Hawaii - A slow-moving lava flow from an erupting volcano on Hawaii's Big Island incinerated a house on Monday, marking the first home devoured by a stream of molten rock that has crept toward the village of ...

NYC to stop many small-time marijuana arrests, to issue summonses and violations instead