Gawker is running a competition, tournament style, to see which accent will be crowned "America's Ugliest." In the running are 16 cities in the US, and readers get to vote. As a linguist, I'm not so thrilled about it.

The London-based US journalist Michael Goldfarb originally planned an entirely different career - as an actor. But while he waited for his big break in New York in the 1970s, he worked as a cab-driver. To begin with it seemed like easy money.

Every time you walk into a physician's office, you run the risk of overtreatment: Tests you don't need, medications that are ineffective (or dangerous), procedures that cause more problems than they solve. In many cases the best thing for y ...

An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly

After much legal wrangling, the fraternity brothers come to an agreement about the early development of the ephemeral messaging app.

In the wake of the beheading of Dave Foley and the alarming rise of ISIS’ influence – becoming a potent regional and international threat – calls are being made advocating for a large scale direct American military intervention; that America needs t ...

The NRA's top lawyer was convicted of murder, then freed over bad police work. What really happened?

The Cameroonian military says members of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram have abducted the wife of the country's deputy prime minister in the northern Cameroonian town of Kolofata. A local religious leader and mayor was also abducted from ...

A London-based reporter for Russia's state-owned English-language channel RT quit Friday in protest at its coverage of the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine. Sara Firth is the second person since March to publicly resign from RT, formerly known ...

A California production company is claiming that Seth MacFarlane and his company stole the idea for the R-rated talking teddy bear in the hit movie Ted. According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Bengal Mangle Pro ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious signal in X-ray data from a study of galaxy clusters, and they think the X-rays could have been produced by the decay of sterile neutrinos, a type of particle proposed as a candidate for dark matter.

The essential Suárez goal is short-range, larcenous, and inflected with chaos, a kind of white-hot bad manners.

What really went on behind the scenes at Bayside High? Lifetime will tell all in a 2014 television movie and BuzzFeed can exclusively reveal the new class.

Georges, my dog who loves watching sports, is having a great time watching the 2014 World Cup. He will watch the games for hours and doesn't care who wins or loses, as long as he can watch them play.

Bulletproof Vest testing.

Mao banned it; no one will admit to playing it; and it’s illegal. And yet China’s golf industry is booming. How?

Broadcaster denounces government response in speech at conference marking first anniversary of publication of NSA files

Complimentary Wi-Fi is so commonplace that a business advertising its “hotspot” in the window seems somewhat passé. But a new hotspot location should impress even the most jaded among us: For the first time, scientists have demonstrated it’s possible ...

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has passed a bill that seeks to punish Venezuelan officials accused of human rights violations during protests that have left 42 dead in the country since they began in February.

Sure, we've got a lot of problems in L.A., like poverty and trigger-happy cops. But maybe we should be focusing more on pressing topics, like celebrities defiling the sanctity of marriage. One noble man is fighting the good fight against the num ...