Many people assume the world's biggest employers are Chinese or Indian, given the size of the population in both countries. However, research has revealed that the US Department of Defense is actually the world's largest employer, boasting a massive ...
According to UNESCO students from Germany and France are among the most active students in the world who receive education abroad. Chinese and Indian students are most of the time heading overseas in order to get a higher education. As to th...
We as a nation have embraced all kinds of dumb slang, from “swag” to “hepcat.” (Never mind, hepcat is awesome.) But some words never get out of specific pockets of America, where they easily weed out the locals from th...
After attorneys made their closing arguments Tuesday, the Aurora theater shooting case went to a jury consisting of nine women and three men. Team Coverage....
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 brings the franchise to its powerful final chapter, in which Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) realizes the stakes are no longer just for survival—they are for the future....
A photo posted to Reddit of two cakes, side by side, with the comment, “The cake that was ordered and the cake that arrived,” went viral this week. But as many things on Reddit, there’s more to this story than first meets ...
A few of Google's cartoon-like self-driving cars began sharing the road with regular vehicles today around the company's Mountain View, California headquarters. Google's Self-Driving Car Project team shared a photograph of one of the first ...
Merriam-Webster added more than 1,700 words to its dictionary, but many of them probably should've already been included....
After 10 weeks of grueling practice and competition and one final round of competition, Rumer Willis was declared the winner of season 20 of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” Tuesday, beating out Noah Galloway and Riker Lynch. ...
Does consuming 100 bottles of wine a year sound like a lot? It turns out that this is actually the average alcohol consumption per person in many wealthy countries, according to a recent report. With the equivalent of a little more than...
An earthquake struck Nepal Tuesday, weeks after the country was devastated by a massive earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey. The 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck at a depth of 11.5 miles, according to the USGS. A 5.6...
This infographic shows the average of hours worked per week in the EU According to this infographic made by Statista (Statista.com), last year Greek workers worked 42 hours per week, followed by Portugal, ...
The Map of Languages Traditional Hats and Caps across Europe ...
Among McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook's global turnaround plans for the world's biggest burger chain, there are only a few changes that may be obvious to consumers, according to some analysts. Trying to revive sagging sales for the fast fo...
American women put an average of 168 chemicals on their bodies each day, according to a nonprofit group, but two senators say federal regulations on personal care products have barely changed since the 1930s. Senators Dianne Feinstein, D-Ca...
These days, blood transfusion is one of the most common medical procedures performed in U.S. hospita These days, blood transfusion is one of the most common medical procedures performed in U.S. hospitals. It's a procedure we've all but perfected, b...
With an estimated 46 million Americans using federal food assistance program, we want to know, are food stamps effective in alleviating hunger and poverty?...
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The Dubai police force are the proud owners of a 'super fleet,' a mass of high end sports cars from all over the world. However, these vehicles are not used to chase criminals, but instead as a PR mechanism. Heralded as the most progressive of the ...
Apple has its space ship-like campus. Google has its dream of constructing movable buildings. And Facebook -- well it has a warehouse. The social network's team moved into its new Menlo Park, California, headquarters this week. CEO Mark Z...