Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who allegedly tried to kiss him on the lips as he walked down the red carpet for the Moscow premiere of “Men in Black III.” The reporter known as Vitalii Sediuk, from the Ukrainian television channel 1+1, also made headlines at the Venice Film Festival in […]
China has grown more popular than the United States, according to a recently released survey that involved more than 24,000 people around the world about whether countries and the European Union affected the world for good or for ill. China has long been popular in Kenya and Nigeria, where most people surveyed said the country […]
Pepsi announced on Thursday that it was cancelling sponsorship of a prestigious national horse show, a day after ABC News broadcast footage of a horse being beaten by a trainer in training. According to the Walking Horse National Celebration, Pepsi had been a sponsor since 2010 of the nation’s leading competition for Tennessee Walking Horses, […]
A recently discovered shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico may have originally gone down 200 years ago. The ship is full of ceramic plates, glass bottles and boxes of muskets. The ship was discovered 200 miles (321 kilometers) off the Gulf Coast in more than 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) of water by a Gulf of […]
A limbless Frenchman planning a journey of making a challenging swim around the world finally got his epic wish which started on Thursday after sorting out paperwork problems in Papua New Guinea. Philippe Croizon, who lost both his arms and legs in an electrical accident in 1994, braved the waters in the Pacific country’s remote […]
Eating too much sugar can muddle with your brainpower, according to US scientists who published a study on Tuesday showing how a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup sapped lab rats’ memories. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) had an experiment with two groups of rats. One group was supplemented with brain-boosting […]
Princess Cruises has been charged with a lawsuit due to its “outrageous conduct” and “callous disregard for human life” as it failed to rescue three young men aboard a disabled Panamanian fishing boat, two of whom later died at sea. The civil complaint, in a tragic high seas case that has caught international attention, was […]
Rebekah Brooks, the former Chief of News International and confidante of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, is to be charged with obstructing justice in the phone-hacking scandal that has stunned Britain. Prosecutors announced on Tuesday that Brooks would be charged with three counts of “conspiracy to pervert the course of justice,” all of them resulting from […]
Perhaps America isn’t quite ready for Howard Stern as an AGT judge. Ratings for Monday’s season premiere of “America’s Got Talent” hit low compared with that of last year’s, according to Nielsen. The first episode with shock-jock Stern, who took over as a judge for Piers Morgan, slipped by one-third, to 10.3-million total viewers in […]
CDC is leading a national education campaign initiative called “Know More Hepatitis.” The campaign aims to decrease the burden of chronic viral hepatitis by increasing awareness about this hidden epidemic and encouraging people who may be chronically infected to get tested. Take CDC’s new online Hepatitis Risk Assessment. Answer a few questions and then you […]
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