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Over the weekend, Valeria Lukyanova, better known as the Human Barbie or as a racist space alien, posted some photos of herself with little to no makeup. If it wasn’t for the huge breasts combined with the impossibly small waist and the fact that she recently converted to Breatharianism, a practice whose followers don’t eat or drink and believe they …

The funeral for the daughter of musician Bob Geldof and late TV personality Paula Yates will be held at the St. Mary Magdalene and St. Lawrence Church in Davington, reported the New York Daily News. It is the same church at which the funeral for Yates, who died of a heroin overdose, was held in 2000.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake shaked southern Mexico at 9:27 local time (1427 GMT) Friday, Mexican National Seismologic Service announced. The epicenter is located 31 km northwest of Tecpan in the southern state of Guerrero, some 300 kilometers south of the capital Mexico City.

Changing where a newborn baby is held before its umbilical cord is clamped could lead to improved uptake in hospitals of delayed cord clamping, according to latest research. Delaying clamping until around two minutes after birth allows for blood to pass from the placenta to the baby, and has previously been shown to reduce the risk of iron deficiency in …

The Waterloo Ontario-based cell phone manufacturer and mobile service provider, announced today that the company had launched a mobile app award for young entrepreneurs showing their scientific and technical expertise at the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2014, the largest and most established science-based competition for students in Canada.

Australian researchers say an experimental vaccine is extending the lives of patients with advanced melanoma and could be a useful new treatment for the disease, which kills about 1500 Australians a year. Researchers from the University of Adelaide said a small study of a vaccine to treat advanced melanoma in 54 people over the last decade showed 15 per cent …

Lower levels of blood sugar may make married people angrier at their spouses and even more likely to lash out aggressively, new research reveals. In a 21-day study, researchers found that levels of blood glucose in married people, measured each night, predicted how angry they would be with their spouse that evening.

It’s not unusual to see a lot of Mustangs on the roads in our area, but this weekend if you are anywhere near the Kannapolis-Concord-Charlotte area, you’re probably going to feel like you’re in the middle of biggest herd of Mustangs ever assembled. Thousands of Mustang lovers and their cars from all over the US and beyond are in town …

Smoking marijuana, even casually, can cause damage to critical parts of the brain, according to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

The remains recovered from a car found overturned in a South Dakota creek last fall have been identified as those of two teenage girls who disappeared in 1971, and no foul play is suspected, authorities said on Tuesday. The girls, Cheryl Miller and Pamela Jackson, were both 17 when they headed out to a party in a 1960 Studebaker and …

From the department of No Duh, a study from Princeton and Northwestern Universities supports the thesis that the United States of America is not a republic in substance but rather an oligarchy where the rich rule and the majority are irrelevant to policy decisions.