A terrifying report by Amnesty International on conditions in North Korea describes harrowing living conditions, marked by widespread food shortages and appallingly sparse medical care.
The report indicates that patients are routinely operated on in substandard conditions, and ...
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In addition to being the most exciting things in the world when you're high, salsa and guacamole are also super efficient at transmitting foodborne illnesses, the CDC would like you to know.
Before you hit up your favorite ...
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A man carrying bags containing the corpses of more than 70 dead babies has been arrested in Nigeria.
The man, who worked for the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, was supposed to be bringing the infants' corpses to receive ...
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How does that make you feel, Grandpa?
[via Reddit]
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Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old girl attempting to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world alone, may be lost at sea and a search effort is underway to locate the California teenager.
Sunderland has not been heard from ...
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In a roundtable discussion about the production of reality shows, Jersey Shore creator SallyAnn Salsano, herself a native of Jersey Shore twin Long Island, called the set of the show a "herpes nest" and admitted to dispensing ...
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A man accused of shoplifting tubes of toothpaste from a Chicago CVS has died of strangulation related injuries after an employee forcefully restrained him outside the store.
36-year-old Anthony Kyser was taken to nearby Mt. Sinai Hospital, reportedly ...
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Well, we have a new "most compelling argument ever" for online shopping.
Bill Jordan was picking up an iPad at a Denver Apple store for a Canadian colleague and as the old adage goes, no good deed goes ...
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Back in February, a story broke about the administration in a Pennsylvania school district possibly spying on students via school issued MacBooks with webcams.
The FBI quickly got involved, and many people still feel the school grossly violated ...
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The secret ingredient in many old man cocktails (like Manhattans and Old Fashioneds) has been in short shrift worldwide, and it appears there is no end in sight to the limited availability of the most prominent brand, ...
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A man from St. Albans, in the New York City borough of Queens, has been charged with murder in relation to the death of his infant son Xiah, who was seven months old.
Twenty-year-old Larry Greene told police ...
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The new professional networking site Unvarnished was a pretty big topic of discussion yesterday after people balked at its strange marriage of concepts- kind of like LinkedIn meets /b/ on 4chan.
When the site comes out of beta, ...
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You've probably heard some of the steadily increasing buzz about the new professional networking site Unvarnished, a site Gawker says aims to "cross the anonymous pompous idiocy of Yelp with the overserious 'professional'ism of LinkedIn."
People are freaking ...
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Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), one of the most vocal proponents of the new healthcare reform legislation, received a threatening letter containing an unidentified white powder today.
Law enforcement officials responded to the scene on Kew Gardens road at ...
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Everyone writing a research paper or looking to resolve an argument this afternoon was SOL after Wikipedia suffered an outage.
Protocols to redirect traffic to servers in Florida also failed, causing the site to go down globally for ...
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This is why you should fear left turns.
Video emerged on the internet recently showing a tiny Clio helplessly embedded under the bumper of a speeding giant truck on a motorway in Yorkshire, England. The driver of the ...
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Would you feel comfortable knowing a range of auto dealership employees had remote access to determine whether you could get to work on time or at all, transport your partner to the hospital in an emergency or ...
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One of the top trending topics on Twitter right now is Formspring, apparently due to a fake news story circulating on the microblogging service.
Formspring.me, a social media platform designed for users to ask and answer anonymous questions, ...
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Grooming your lady garden is a challenge at the best times, requiring all manner of gymnastics and special tools to get the task at hand accomplished.
37-year-old Megan Barnes was convicted on a DUI charge the day before ...
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Two men and four women were killed in an early morning bus crash in Arizona today.
The rollover crash involved the tour bus, two semi trucks and and "several" cars. The accident occurred at 5:27 A.M. local time ...
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An investigation sparked by alarming chats between a British teenager and an online acquaintance in the US may have prevented the rape of a small child in North Carolina.
The 17-year-old girl, who has been involved in a ...
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Two people were killed and six injured today when a 26-foot "freak wave" struck the Maltese-flagged, Greek Cypriot-owned Louis Majesty cruise ship in the Mediterranean.
A spokesman for the company confirmed that a massive rogue wave "smashed windows ...
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