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A survey from CareerBuilder shows that 31 percent of office romances end in marriage. Overall, 38 percent of US employees say they have dated a coworker at least once during their career.
If you’re one of the 4.5 million people who live in Ireland, you pay no water bill. Municipal water is free, no matter how much you use. And no one knows how much you use — not even you. Ireland has no water meters and no water bills. In fact, Ireland is the only country…
In which Washington learns what its policies have wrought
South Carolina Customer Declared Dead by Bank of America?
You might think Armageddon was just a lot of Bruce Willis sobbing and Aerosmith-fueled sex, but there was actually some truth in there! If an enormous space rock ever heads our way, we're already planning on nuking it to hell.
In South Africa, a rookie CIA field agent (Ryan Reynolds) shepherds a dangerous rogue operative (Denzel Washington) who's turned himself in to U.S. authorities. Critic Ian Buckwalter says the stars' effective performances can't save this tiresome, by-the-numbers effort.
Mere minutes after Super Bowl XLVI MVP Eli Manning hoisted the Lombardi Trophy on Sunday, he was congratulated in the locker room by his older brother, injury-ridden four-time NFL MVP Peyton.
But a new UC Irvine study challenges the GOP argument that the health care law is too costly, with data illustrating that health care costs on the whole fall when poorer, uninsured patients are provided with insurance.
By the numbers: 5, 247 Photographers, 124 Nationalities, 101, 254 pictures. Three hundred and fifty images by 57 photographers of 24 nationalities were awarded prizes in nine categories. To view the entire collection of winning images from the 55th World Press Photo Contest: 2012 World Press Photo.
text Cyclists Prefer Bikes to Sex
2012-02-10T15:18:06Z
In a recent survey carried out by Bicycling magazine, 50 per cent of men and 58 per cent of women said that, if they had to choose between bikes or sex...
The sweet scent of sewage may not sound romantic, but for lovers of urban infrastructure, the Department of Environmental Protection is offering a Valentine’s morning tour of the Newtown Creek Wastewater treatment plant.
The Iranian government isn't exactly known as a champion of free speech and access to information. Thus, it's never shocking to hear about Internet censorship in the country, the state of which appears to be getting worse all the time. Today, news surfaced that the country is blocking access to websites that use HTTPS. That means that a number of popular, secure websites like Google, Gmail, Yahoo and even online banking sites are inaccessible. Anything based outside the country that uses a secure connection via HTTPS is blocked, according to news reports and a thread on Hacker News. Secure sites...
When you live in an isolated nation with a population roughly the size of Pittsburgh's, accidentally lusting after a cousin is an all-too-real possibility.
AMSTERDAM — Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award for the New York Times with an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.
This guy is fricking amazing.
The social media juggernaut's financial filing reveals some uncomfortable truths about Silicon Valley and Wall Street. By Allan Sloan, senior editor-at-large FORTUNE -- There's something to be said for being a fossil when it's time to look at a phenomenon like Facebook's pending stock offering. The medium is new, the numbers are ...
Americans trying to cut sodium from their diets may be surprised to learn that bread, not chips or pretzels, is a leading culprit. A new report from the Center for Disease Control found that bread and rolls are the top source of sodium in America’s...
Mobile usage is the fastest-growing part of LinkedIn's business, but it's not a big revenue driver -- yet. That could soon change, as LinkedIn plans to test out advertising across mobile devices, now that it's gotten the product and user experience right on those platforms.
Forget about the 1-kilometer-high Kingdom Tower. There will be a building higher than that. This is it, the Azerbaijan Tower. It will be fifty meters higher, have 189 floors and looks like a beautifully shiny glass, steel and concrete monolith of crap.
text One Battery Powers 1,400 Homes
2012-02-10T06:49:54Z
Chemicals giant Solvay hailed Monday the successful entry into service in Flanders of what it said was the largest fuel cell of its type in the world.