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8 years ago+7 9 2Edge of Tomorrow 2 Teased by Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise recently said he has pitched Edge of Tomorrow 2 to Christopher McQuarrie and Doug Liman, and the story would involve Emily Blunt's character.
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8 years ago+2 3 1Sex trafficking: Lifelong struggle of exploited children
In the US, poverty, deprivation and exploitation draw thousands of its own children down into a dark underworld that offers few ways out. It is a world few Americans are aware of. But tens of thousands of American children are thought to be sexually ...
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8 years ago+18 18 0 x 2The Mind-Bending Science of Awe
Awe is not an everyday emotion. You don't wake up awestruck. A satisfying lunch doesn't leave you filled with awe. Even a great day is unlikely to leave you in a state of jaw-dropped, consciousness-opening fear and trembling. Perhaps that ...
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8 years ago+18 18 0eBay Now rapid delivery service shut down
eBay's US venture into speedy deliveries has ended up in the scrapyard. The online marketplace said Monday it has killed off eBay Now, which it started three years ago to allow its customers to buy items from local stores, such as AutoZone or GN ...
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8 years ago+21 21 0North Korean ambassador says country not interested in nuclear deal
The North Korean ambassador to China says that his country has no interest in an Iran-style nuclear disarmament deal because North Korea is a "nuclear weapons state."
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8 years ago+35 37 2 x 1North Korea would 'leave no Americans alive' in another war, Kim Jong-un says
North Korea celebrated the 62nd anniversary of its "victory over U.S. imperialism" on Monday with a threat: it would "leave no Americans alive" in a war.
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8 years ago+27 27 0 x 1Drone Vandalism Is Now A Thing
By this point, drones have been co-opted into most human activities: proposals, religion, and yep, porn. As of Wednesday morning, you can also add vandalising a gigantic NYC billboard to that list. As Wired reports, well-known graffiti artist KATSU h ...
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8 years ago+16 16 0Magicians Young & Strange Hijack Sky News!
Magicians Young & Strange photobomb the background of a Live Sky News broadcast with journalist Ashish Joshi in Westminster.
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8 years ago+17 17 0Mystery pooper targeting holes of Norwegian golf course
The groundskeeper of a Norwegian golf course said a mystery pooper targeting course holes must be a man "because the poos are too massive to be from a woman."
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8 years ago+26 27 1 x 1How Walmart's New Car Seat Will Save Babies' Lives
Hoping to stop the fatal phenomenon of kids left alone in hot cars, Walmart just began selling Evenflo’s “smart” new car seat, which reminds drivers there’s a child in the backseat by sounding an alarm when the ignition turns off. In the wake of yet ...
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8 years ago+65 65 0 x 3NASA estimates 1 billion ‘Earths’ in our galaxy alone
There are a billion Earths in this galaxy, roughly speaking. Not a million. A billion. We’re talking 1 billion rocky planets that are approximately the size of the Earth and are orbiting familiar-looking yellow-sunshine stars in the orbital “habitabl ...
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8 years ago+67 68 1 x 1Dunkin' CEO: $15 min wage is 'outrageous'
Dunkin' Donuts' top executive says a $15 minimum wage for fast food workers is "absolutely outrageous." On Thursday, New York state's wage board recommended fast food workers make at least $15 per hour. The board said it shou ...
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8 years ago+29 29 0 x 1The Ancient City Where People Decided To Eat Chickens
An ancient, abandoned city in Israel has revealed part of the story of how the chicken turned into one of the pillars of the modern Western diet. The city, now an archaeological site, is called Maresha. It flourished in the Hellenistic period from 40 ...
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8 years ago+14 14 0Bill Cosby counter-attacks in alleged sex assault storm
Embattled US comic Bill Cosby went on the counter-attack Wednesday against a woman he alleges breached a confidentiality deal the pair made in settling a sex assault claim 10 years ago. The veteran actor also charged that the media had misinterpreted ...
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8 years ago+11 11 0DOJ called to investigate Florida's 'Muslim-free' gun store
Muslim civil-rights advocates are asking the government to investigate a Florida business owner who declared his store a “Muslim free zone.” “I have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure the safety of all patriots in my community, and so effecti ...
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8 years ago+2 3 1Too much TV can raise the risk of Alzheimer’s, new study suggests
Sedentary lifestyles and social isolation seem to speed decline of cognitive function, researchers say.
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8 years ago+13 13 0The French Scrabble champion who doesn't speak French
Nigel Richards’ command of the language of Molière, as the French like to call it, stretches to “bonjour” and being able to count. However, the New Zealander who has been called “the Tiger Woods of Scrabble” certainly has a way with words – even Fren ...
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8 years ago+1 3 2A new NASA-funded study lays out a plan to return humans to the Moon
Humans could return to the Moon in the next decade and live there a decade after, a new study claims. The announcement was made on the 46th anniversary of the Apollo 11 crew's first steps on the lunar surface. The study, performed by NexGen Spac ...
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8 years ago+15 15 0Monday marks 46th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing
Monday, July 20 is the 46th anniversary of the first moon landing, a day that space buffs everywhere still celebrate. More than a half billion people watched the televised first moonwalk where Neil Armstrong uttered the now-famous words," That i ...
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8 years ago+27 27 0 x 2Polar bears are in more trouble than we thought
Polar bears have been a face of climate change for years. We’ve long understood that the melting sea ice is drastically reducing their means of foraging for seals, their main food source. We even know that pollution puts their penile bone density at ...
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