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Somali pirates who tried to storm a luxury cruise ship were sent packing by a group of retired British and German tourists wielding deck chairs. When the armed pirates pulled up to the ship off the coast of Somalia, the ...

A specimen of the world’s largest flower, the titan arum, is about to bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. To attract carrion insects, the flower emits a stench botanists likened to “a very dead elephant.” ...

47%: Share of U.S. jobs that are at high risk of becoming automated in the next 20 years, according to Oxford University research ...

$1.4 Billion - Projected annual revenue Mexican drug cartels stand to lose because of pot legalization in Colorado and Washington State ...

Drivers are doing more than just texting behind the wheel.  In a new study by Braun Research, 33 percent admitted they regularly send and read emails while driving, while 28 percent said they browse the internet and 27 percent said ...

• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which used to be known “being a kid", is the most commonly diagnosed psychological “disorder”. • Nearly 10% of American children have, at one time or another,been diagnosed with ADHD. • The state with the ...

A new wave of demonstrations across Australia is planned for June after the government of Western Australia moved to close remote Aboriginal settlements, saying it could no longer afford to subsidize communities plagued by social problems such as alcohol and ...

The pork industry is renaming various cuts of meat to give them "consumer-friendly" names. The National Pork Board has been given approval from the USDA to rename pork chops "porterhouse chops," "ribeye chops," and "New York chops," depending on the ...

$15.6 BILLION - The amount of money Quebec Justice Brian Riordan ruled three tobacco companies must pay to more than 1 million smokers in Quebec who have become ill from tobacco use or say they can’t quit smoking.  The companies said ...

Of the approximately 11,000 people murdered with guns in the U.S. in 2012, just 322 were killed by an assault weapon or any kind of rifle.The vast majority of killers used handguns ...