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Jennifer Aniston is living her best life in Hollywood. The 48-year-old former Friends star only took on a few lowkey roles in the past 12 months and still earned more than almost any other actress in the world. With $25.5 million, she came in second on Forbes’s annual list of the world’s highest-paid actresses, which […]Read More

Obesity is a risk factor for numerous disorders that afflict the human race, so understanding how to maintain a healthy body weight is one of the most urgent issues facing society. By 2025, it is estimated that 18% of men and 21% of women will be obese worldwide. In the US alone, 68.8% of people […]

More than 20 years ago, then-US president Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico into law. Today, prodded by president Donald Trump, negotiators from the three countries will start talks to revamp it. As a presidential candidate, Trump bashed the deal, which went into effect in 1994, […]

Two days later, the staggering effects of a devastating mudslide in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, is starting to become clear. So far, over 400 people have been reported dead while another 600 remain missing and are believed to be buried in the debris as recovery operations continue in the affected areas near the capital. Thousands […]

The way to my heart is through my ears. That’s what I learned from Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages, the Bible of relationship theory among psychologists and Facebook friends alike. Chapman’s 1995 book suggests there are five ways that couples show love: gift giving, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and touch. […]Read More

Amazon borrowed $16 billion in the bond market yesterday, the fourth-largest deal of its kind this year, according to CNBC. It’s using the money to finance its $14 billion takeover of Whole Foods (and then some). A chunk of the debt has to be paid back in 10 years and yields about 3.2%, which is […]

Elvis’s story is so classically American (poor country boy makes good in the city) that his press agents never bothered to improve on it. So said the great chronicler of American popular culture, Greil Marcus, in his classic 1975 study, Mystery Train. Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in a two-room shack in […]

When ancient humans looked up to the heavens and tried to understand the movements of celestial objects, they started a tradition that would evolve into astronomy. With incredible precision, they tracked the shifting of the stars, hoping it would help them anticipate clear omens in the sky—namely, solar and lunar eclipses. Solar eclipses have a […]

Given the current state of commercial air travel, any effort to get the flight over with more quickly could be considered noble. Supersonic flight is the obvious answer. That technology isn’t even new. The Concorde’s maiden flight was in 1969, and service ended in 2003. Getting a plane to fly faster than the speed of […]

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga said he will challenge the results of the general election at the Supreme Court, standing by his claims that the electoral system was hacked and the results rigged in president Uhuru Kenyatta’s favor. In a press conference in the capital Nairobi, Odinga questioned the electoral commission’s tallying process, and termed […]Read More

The German government threw Air Berlin a lifeline after the country’s second largest airline filed for bankruptcy due to its biggest shareholder, Etihad Airways, pulling the plug. With the general election looming, the German government quickly stumped up a €150 million ($175 million) loan to at least temporarily safeguard some of the 8,500 jobs at […]

One of the creepiest scenes from Annabelle: Creation—a movie about a demonic doll possessed with the spirit of a dead girl—involves a girl, a toy gun that shoots a ball attached to a string, and a darkened hallway. The girl, Linda, shoots the ball through bedroom doorway and, when she attempts to reel it back, […]