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“To the girl who shared the siege with me: I love you.” Last week, photographs of a Syrian couple went viral, shortly after the final rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo...

U.S. President Barack Obama pauses as he participates in his last news conference of the year at the White House Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Obama administration will dismantle a...

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This week marked the second known Chhaupadi-related death in Nepal this year. The practice is supposed to be illegal, but it’s far from extinct. A 15-year-old girl in Nepal died...

Happy birthday, Colo! Colo, the world's oldest living gorilla, turned 60 on Thursday. Grahm S. Jones The female western lowland gorilla, who resides at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, was...

Police officers in New Jersey used a search warrant to seize a water meter that was at the center of a local newspaper’s investigation into alleged corruption at the town’s...

The meme has taken over the internet. Back in November, people on Facebook shared a video of kids in Ngabul, Indonesia, shouting "Om Telolet Om" (Sir, honk your horn, sir)...

The wireless earbuds sync to iOS devices with ease – but there’s a lot of room for improvement. When it unveiled the headphone jack-less iPhone 7, Apple announced an all-new...

North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore Gerry Broome / AP Fractured and short-fused before Christmas, the North Carolina legislature adjourned Wednesday evening without repealing a law that had polarized a...

China Photos / Getty Images Zenefits, the embattled human resources startup that is searching for a new CEO, burned cash at a rate of $16.2 million a month from February...