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Remember the pool party scene in "The Wolf of Wall Street" in which the already-married Jordan Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, first lays eyes on his future second wife? The role of "Naomi," played by Margot Robbie...

Good Morning America got a hold of the GoPro video taken inside a plane's cabin as it crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii last month. A passenger on a plane, Ferdinand Puentes, also used the camera to take a self...

Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are tied with five combined Super Bowl wins and Most Valuable Player awards. Of course, most of Manning's success has come during the regular season (four MVPs), while Brady has been better i...

The wreck of the Costa Concordia — which crashed on underwater rocks off the Italian coast in January 2012 — will finally be towed away in June, officials said at a press conference today. Ports in Italy, France, Tur...

The open-floor office is ruining your ability to do your job. It sounds odd to say, especially as open offices — layouts with no cubicles, few spatial dividers, and shared working spaces — have taken off. An estimate...

A 28-year-old mother of four was found dead in her bedroom Monday after obtaining two restraining orders against her allegedly abusive ex-boyfriend, The Seattle Times reported. Police have not yet arrested anyone in con...

On Wednesday, the Pew Research Center released a graphic, based on research from University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, that purported to show how people in Muslim-majority countries think it is appro...

The Alaba Market, in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, is a chaotic mass of noise, vehicles and electronics shops; open air stalls selling software and movies of dubious provenance and tiny dark rooms housing the co...

Target Corp. said the recent security breach affected more people and more information than previously thought was taken.     

Facebook made these county-by-county maps of who's rooting for who in this weekend's NFL playoff games. It's based on Facebook likes, and it's pretty cool. Some takeaways: The entire south loves the Saints Mississippi li...

The Dakar Rally claims another victim Friday with organizers announcing the death of Belgian Eric Palante, a competitor in the motorbikes section.

Embattled gasket maker Garlock files sealed complaints against asbestos lawyers for fraud

December's much-weaker-than-expected job growth should be taken with a grain of salt, economists say, and one month worth of data should not stop the Federal Reserve from making another reduction of its asset purchases a...

A group of Washington D.C. coffee shops are lashing out against Starbucks with a "disloyalty card."  Once the card-holder has six stamps, they get a free beverage from any of the shops, reports Alex Baldinger at The Was...

So far, French President Francois Hollande is having a horrible 2014. The economy is in the pits, his popularity continues to set record lows, and a Dutch newspaper even made fun of the fact that no one seems to want to ...

China tech made a splash at the Consumer Electronics Shows in Las Vegas this year, one more sign that Chinese technology is going global.

No. It's a simple two-letter word that can be so difficult to say, particularly when it comes to business. That's because so many have built their success by saying yes to whatever opportunities came their way and taking...

Shiva Keshavan is a three-time Olympic luge competitor from northern India. In 2010, he was one of just three athletes that the world's seventh-largest country sent to the Winter Games in Vancouver. Many winter sports at...

The richest people on the planet got even richer in 2013, adding $524 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world's 300 wealthiest individuals.

Evan Spiegel, 23, and Bobby Murphy, 25, have turned Snapchat and its disappearing photos into the hottest app in America for teenagers. Hot enough, in fact, to spurn a $3 billion offer from Facebook. Will they become two...

Narcissism and chief executives are much in the news of late. Maybe it's a hangover from the financial crisis or continuing fallout from Enron and other financial scandals. There certainly seems to be a growing interest ...

At CES 2014, we went in search of products and services with the potential to disrupt entire industries. We found dozens of them.