At least three people have been confirmed killed after a US passenger train derailed onto a motorway in Washington state during rush hour on Monday morning. Officials say 72 people were taken to hospitals after most of the Amtrak train's car...
Blackout at Atlanta airport leaves thousands stranded...
Christmashas always been a time for festive frocks, triumphant touches and holly-jolly accessories, but the social media craze this holiday season is crazy Christmas hair in all shapes and forms. From Christmas tree hair tall enough to make Ci...
"Meghan Markle", fiancee to Prince Harry, has been revealed by Google as the top most searched term in the UK for 2017. It puts the royal bride-to-be ahead of "iPhone 8" and "Hurricane Irma" in the list of top s...
China has been building what it calls \\\\\\"the world's biggest camera surveillance network\\\\\\". Across the country, 170 million CCTV cameras are already in place and an estimated 400 million new ones will be installed in the next three years. Many...
(CNN)2017, man. We laughed, we cried, we cry-laughed and, when words failed us, we relied on the sage power of GIFs and memes to communicate the deep unease coursing just under the surface of our daily existence. Which is to say, it's no...
Student Sophie Sandberg has been going around New York writing out unwanted catcalls on pavements. The 21-year-old says she's trying to raise awareness about sexual harassment in the city. Women send her the unwanted comments said to them a...
Prince Harry and his bride-to-be Meghan Markle are due to visit a World Aids Day charity fair later, in the couple's first joint official public engagement. The world's media are likely to join the couple, who announced their engagement on M...
The American love affair with the British Royal Family is an enduring, long-distance relationship, spiced up every now and then by a birth or a marriage. The latest development has a distinctly American twist: Prince Harry has announced his ...
A Victoria's Secret lingerie show is a glitzy affair. But some of the sheen was missing from its Chinese premiere on Monday, when most of the coverage focused on the two star names who didn't make it to Shanghai. Reports say Katy Perry and G...
UCLA basketball players apologize for shoplifting in China...
Apple users who keep seeing "A?" instead of "i" can finally breathe easy. On Thursday, Apple (AAPL, Tech30) released an iOS update to fix an issue some people experienced where a lower-case letter &quo...
Halloween dates back to the Celtic farming festival Samhain. The holiday marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. As the crops died, farmers believed there was a day when spirits could rise from their graves. During ...
The relaxed, colourful work environments of Silicon Valley have come to define the creative atmosphere of the internet age. Casual dress, flexible working hours andquirky job titlesat internet giants such as Google and Facebook s...
The history of Halloween...
The White House would currently be better described as "The Haunted House." On Friday, the exterior of the first family's residence began to be decorated with fake spider webs in anticipation of Monday's arrival on the South Lawn...
As you might have noticed earlier this month if you dared to venture outside, tourism is a pretty big thing here in China, and, for better or worse, it only promises to get bigger. A report by the World Travel and To...
The eight-year study from more than 250 scientists finds that infant sea creatures will be especially harmed. This means the number of baby cod growing to adulthood could fall to a quarter or even a 12th of today's numbers, the research...
Mainland China and Hong Kong predominate in the latest iteration of the QS Asia University Rankings, accounting for seven of the top ten schools. For the fifth consecutive year London-based higher education specialist Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ...
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