A recent TRAFFIC survey found more than 2,100 ivory pieces on sale in two luxury hotels in Vientiane. Lao PDR is playing a more prominent role in the international ivory trade than was previously thought, says a new report launched by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. The report points to the significantly higher volume […]
Researchers who unearth the “mummies” say that the pair of 3,000-year-old mummified corpses that were recently discovered in Scotland are actually composed of body parts originating from six different people. The corpses were discovered in Cladh Hallan, an archaeological site on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, the only location […]
Justin Bieber said the police who ticketed him, when he had been trying to evade the pursuing paparazzi, were “not nice” while he was trying to explain what was going on. The 911 call Justin Bieber made when paparazzi were following him on Friday has been released, and in it the singer can be heard […]
Justice Department officials today offered $1 million for the capture of the five Mexican “border bandits” who killed Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry with an ATF-sourced weapon in the mountains south of Tucson. Agent Terry’s death has been at the center of the Congressional investigation into a botched ATF gun-smuggling investigation dubbed “Fast and Furious.” […]
Spider-Man has spun himself a $65 million opening weekend and $140 million in his first six days at U.S. theaters. Overseas, Sony’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” added $129.1 million, raising its international total to $201.6 million and worldwide haul to $341.2 million since it began rolling out a week earlier in some foreign markets. The new […]
A French collector of games just caved in a cool one million Euros (or about $1.23 million) on eBay for what seems to be the most epic game collection ever. The collection includes full sets for 22 game consoles, or roughly 7,000 games. It includes every single game for every Sega console, every game released […]
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $971 million to continue improving preparedness and health outcomes for a wide range of public health threats within every state, eight U.S. territories, and four of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. Administered by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response […]
Swimmers in Cape Cod, Mass. are sporting back into the water Sunday after a great white shark sighting closed a popular beach this weekend. Lifeguards and swimmers spotted the shark some 100 to 150 yards off Nauset Beach in Orleans Saturday afternoon. The 12-14 foot shark was last seen swimming away from shore. No one […]
A singer-contestant who competed on the second season of “American Idol,” filed a libel lawsuit on Thursday against MTV Networks for more than $40 million, claiming he was unfairly ridiculed by one of its news reporters. The lawsuit claims that after Corey Clark was disqualified from “American Idol,” having reached its “Top 10” finalists, MTV […]
In order to save money on the installation of central air-conditioning in his St. Joseph, Mo., home, Bryan Fite, 40, began replacing the wires in his attic himself, prying up the floor boards on the rafters. Accidentally, he discovered a treasure beneath the floorboards: 13 bottles of century-old whiskey. Fite, who grew up in St. […]
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