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This case began with two lies: the one I refused to tell, and one a crack-cocaine abuser agreed to tell. On December 15, 1995, while I was charged in an unrelated case, a detective from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania demanded that I become an informant and ...

Chilean mountaineers say they have found the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Andes 54 years ago, killing 24 people, including eight members of a professional soccer team. The group said they came across the wreckage at an altitude of about 3, ...

Billionaires and politicians gathering in Switzerland this week will come under pressure to tackle rising inequality after a study found that – on current trends – by next year, 1% of the world’s population will own more wealth than the other 99%. Ah ...

Carl-Einar Häckner-comedy magician from Sweden preforms the classic disappearing Banana at the Comedy Gala at the Melbourne comedy festival 2011.

Sometimes, a TV show comes along that seems so brilliant and revolutionary that it’s simultaneously hard to believe it hasn’t happened already and surprising that anyone was ever clever enough to think of it in the first place. Now, according to Dead ...

For some, an old saying that translates to “men from the South are handsome, and women from the North are beautiful,” means that a South Korean man and a North Korean woman make the perfect couple. Stepping up to fill the growing void created by the ...

They are the most unlikely architects of the CIA’s programme of torture. Two psychologists who swore to heal not harm. Now it has been revealed that two doctors, identified by the pseudonyms Dr Grayson Swigert and Dr Hammond Dunbar, were paid $81 mil ...

Around 500,000 Russians die due to alcohol abuse every year, Russia's health and safety watchdog said in a statement Monday. More teenagers and women of childbearing age have started consuming alcohol, which lowers life expectancy and contribute ...

Peter Wald’s family truly believed he would rise from the dead. They believed it because they had prayed for it, every single day, while his corpse lay rotting for six months in an upstairs bedroom of their north-end Hamilton home. When neighbours as ...

RadioShack won't be the only store to open on Thanksgiving Day, but it might be the only one of its particular makeup to do so. This isn't Walmart or a call center, in which volunteers who want overtime pay can be chosen first. Most RadioSh ...

In 1980, only 30,000 people lived in Shenzhen, China. Today the population is over 15 million, and Shenzhen is the most crowded city in the country, with more people per square mile than famously packed Hong Kong. And it's still growing. That� ...

It's no secret that the FCC has at least a few links to the communications companies it's policing. Chairman Tom Wheeler is a former lobbyist, and commissioners have taken industry jobs mere months after leaving office.

Researchers working on artificial intelligence at Queen Mary University of London have taught a computer to create magic tricks. The researchers gave a computer program the outline of how a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind reading card trick work, as w ...

A Polish woman who spent 11 hours in cold storage in a mortuary after being declared dead has returned to her family, complaining of feeling cold. Officials say Janina Kolkiewicz, 91, was declared dead after an examination by the family doctor. Howev ...

Controlling cockroaches with electrical 'backpacks' is one of those science experiments that's simultaneously quite cool and ethically grey. What might make you feel better, though, is the knowledge that those remote-controlled cockroa ...

The Russian leader beat out Neil Patrick Harris and Apple CEO Tim Cook for his influence on the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. His amendment to a propaganda law passed last year outlawed the depiction of homosexuality.

Fireball Cinnamon Whisky is taking heat in Europe over a chemical ingredient that's used in some forms of antifreeze. Norway, Sweden and Finland have recalled the popular cinnamon-flavored liqueur - a trendy favorite of sweet-toothed college stu ...

*Well, kind of. Meet Frank Bourassa, a Quebec native who printed a reported $250 million in counterfeit money and was able to sell $50 million of it before getting caught. Here’s how he did it