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China had foot binding. Burma had neck rings. And America? Well, we have corsets. After a nearly 100-year hiatus, waist training has returned to popular culture. The thinking is that...

Car thieves are using money placed on windshields to tempt drivers out of their vehicles in Maryland.

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Six Winter Springs High (Winter Springs, Fla.) football players have been arrested and charged with sexual battery and false imprisonment after allegedly raping a 16-year-old student in the woods near the school.

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 Amazon and Google might be chest-thumping about their respective drone delivery programs but the technology is still years out from being feasible in dense urban environments. Dr Mirko Kovac, director of Imperial Colle...

Mycestro, the world's first wearable wireless 3D mouse that is worn on the finger and operated with gestures, is here to bring the computer mouse into the 21st century.

Lunar Mission One wants to bury a time capsule deep below the surface of the bottom of the moon, and it's asking the public to foot the bill. So far, humanity seems willing to chip in.

MIT team provides theoretical roadmap to making 2-D electronics with novel properties.

Wealthy and eccentric Spanish aristocrat who was a darling of the gossip magazines The 18th Duchess of Alba, who has died aged 88, was one of Spain's best-known public figures. Her frizzy hair (sometimes dyed red), waxen...

Flywheel, the app-enabled cab hailing startup and Uber rival, announced Thursday that it had raised $12 million in Series C funding The timing couldn't be better for the company's new CEO, Rakesh Mathur, who isn't shy ab...

Czech actor Karel Roden - who can be seen as Grigori Rasputin in del Toro´s Hellboy or as Viktor in Frankenstein´s Army - becomes infamous Czech photographer Jan Saudek in a film inspired by his life, The Photograph. S...

ESPN's "First Take" is ripe for commentators who like to go off the rails. Sometimes it's offensive, and other times it's just passionate. Skip Bayless had one of those latter moments on Wednesday when he all but lost it...

When I watch the films of Mike Nichols, I see my children, my parents, family, friends, foes, life in all of its complexity. I see me.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Three minority women who worked at a western Pennsylvania 911 center have filed lawsuits, with one of them saying black dispatchers were made to take calls from inner city residents because they knew h...

A German fund has agreed a deal to buy Transform, one of the UK's biggest cosmetic surgery providers, Sky News learns.

More than 80 percent of Hong Kong residents want the pro-democracy Occupy protests to cease, and over two thirds support the authorities taking action to clear the protest sites, according to a new survey. The survey, co...

FARC and Colombian government say they have agreed conditions for release of General Ruben Alzate and four other people.

The BBC looks at the latest crime and violence statistics in Mexico, as the disappearance of 43 students continues to grip the country.

Human rights group says software represents 'a strike back against governments' over covert surveillance Human rights experts and technology groups have launched a new tool allowing members of the public to scan their co...

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