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“USA Today” has released a list of ‘The Top 25 Super Bowl Ads of the Past 24 Years’. They took the BEST commercial from each year and then ranked them. Each year’s top ad was determined by their “Ad Meter” system…a “real-time consumer ranking of Super Bowl commercials.” There’s one entry from each year, except for 2011 when there was …

Royal Caribbean International is cutting a 10-night voyage short after an outbreak of stomach illness sickened hundreds of passengers. On Sunday night, the Miami-based cruise line said the Explorer of the Seas would return to New Jersey on Wednesday, two days early, to allow for another round of cleaning. More than 600 passengers and crew aboard the ship, which departed …

A four-meter-long crocodile took a 12-year-old boy seriously mauled his friend, after the pair went swimming with friends in a water hole in northern Australia’s Kakadu National Park, a major tourist attraction for the region yesterday. The saltwater crocodile first attacked one of the four boys that were swimming together, but the boy managed to fight off the animal while …

A college student from Russia has been arrested and charged with building a suspected bomb in his bedroom at an apartment near Penn State’s satellite campus in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Vladislav Miftakhov, 18, a student at the Altoona campus, was in jail yesterday after being arrested Friday and charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction, risking a catastrophe and several …

A tourist apparently trampled to death by elephants in Thailand was a woman from New York state. The US State Department said yesterday that she was 24-year-old Lily Glidden, who was from a small village named Freeville. Park rangers in Thailand found her body on January 18, five days after she had left alone from a campsite in Kaeng Krachan …

VETERAN BRITISH ROCKER Phil Collins says that he has started collaborating with compatriot Adele, reported to be working on a follow-up to her hit 2011 album 21. The former Genesis frontman, who effectively retired from music a few years ago, gave no more details of his cooperation with the multiple Grammy-winning British songstress.

Columbia, Md. • A man carrying a shotgun opened fire at a busy shopping mall in suburban Baltimore on Saturday, killing two employees of a skate shop and then himself as panicked shoppers ran for cover, police said. Five others were injured. Police were still trying to determine the motive of the gunman who killed a man and a woman, …

“Octomom” Nadya Suleman, the California single mother of 14 children including octuplets, pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles on Friday to charges that she lied about her income when filing for public assistance. Suleman, who became a media sensation five years ago after giving birth to octuplets conceived through in-vitro fertilization, is accused of failing to report nearly $30,000 in …

The price of a first-class postage stamp will go up this weekend. The price of first-class “Forever” stamps will increase from 46 cents to 49 cents starting Sunday, said Rich Hibbard, supervisor of the Mount Royal post office.

Eight people are known to have died and the families of about 30 others are “bracing for the worst” as the search resumes for victims of Thursday’s fire at a home for senior citizens in eastern Quebec.

Singer/rapper Nicki Minaj was super excited to appear on the cover of ESPN Magazine’s music issue alongside NBA great Kobe Bryant. She, however, got pissed when she saw the magazine had retouched to the cover to make her forehead appear larger.