Earlier this summer, an article regarding Jennifer Lopez pointed out that the singer used to have budgets upward of $1 million for music videos earlier in her career, but her budgets have dropped to one-tenth of that. Lopez was quoted saying, “What g ...

Engineer Nell Watson worries that it won't be easy to teach powerful robots values.

Phil writes, "Runa Sandvik of Freedom of the Press Foundation is systematically documenting the arrests of journalists in Ferguson, Missouri made during protests of the August 9 officer-committed shooting death of Michael Brown."

New research indicates that a current "pause" in global warming could be caused by the Atlantic Ocean, which is pulling heat from the atmosphere and taking it to its depths.

Since the fatal shooting of unarmed, black teen Michael Brown at the hands of a local police officer, the town of Ferguson, Missouri, has erupted in unrest as citizens have taken to the streets in outrage for more than three days.

They say the first way to treat a problem is to admit the problem exists. In that respect, the Australian government may be coming to terms with what it will take to turn around the worrying state of the Great Barrier Reef.

The US alliance will not drag Australia into war with China, says the top US diplomat for Asia. Assistant Secretary for East Asia at the State Department Daniel Russel rejected the assertion by former prime minister Malcolm Fraser that Australia was ...

North Korea has allowed consular access to Kenneth Bae, a detained Korean-American man, after he was sent back to a labor camp two weeks ago, a news report said Wednesday. Bae had a meeting with officials at the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang earlier t ...

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) states that "U.S. military forces continued to attack ISIL terrorists in Iraq today, successfully conducting multiple airstrikes."

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The trouble with making a documentary about the deepest, most remote place on the planet, five miles below the surface of the ocean, is that there really isn't a whole lot happening down there. There are no monsters, no sunken alien warships, ju ...

Have you ever dreamed of moving to a quaint, faraway island where, at first, you can’t adjust to the locals’ slow-paced ways, and they just don’t seem to understand your big-city talk; but after a few weeks of kismet encounters and possibly even a fl ...

Police are seeking one man and have arrested another who they believe tried to smuggle contraband into a South Carolina prison by way of drone. On the morning of April 21, officers discovered a small drone that had crashed in the bushes outside the L ...

A gang of seniors are headed on the way to their corner store, but they're so unbelivably slow that they cause a traffic mayhem. Even the most patient driver in the world can't help but get frustrated at how long it takes them to cross the ...

Peaches have long been compared to backsides. Because, well, peaches look like tushes! And now, thanks to some fruit venders in China, they really look like butts. Sexy butts. These peaches are apparently being sold to capitalize on the the upcoming ...

Facebook has announced today that it will no longer allow messaging in its main mobile application later this week. Instead, any users who wish to take advantage of the company’s messaging platform will have to do so through the standalone Facebook M ...

How can rich countries best help poor ones? Matt Ridley identifies five priorities that provide the biggest benefits for every dollar spent.

The German national team is one of international soccer’s most consistent powerhouses. German teams—including those from the Nazi era, post-war West Germany, and reunified Germany—have qualified for 18 of 20 World Cup tournaments and missed the quart ...

Check out David Kalb's ultimate backyard golf shot complete with watermelons, hotdogs, and fire.

Looks like the Story of Star Wars plays on Earth too in the next Episode.