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Jennifer Lawrence looks good up there on the cover of Flare, “Canada’s fashion magazine,” doesn’t she? That cover was from June 2011, and J-Law looked pretty cute in her purple and orange outfit with the big gold belt. (Those things appear to be having a moment again, so we hope she still has it around.) But a new GIF has …

Bea Rose Santiago of the Philippines successfully captured the much-coveted title as Miss International 2013 winner during the coronation night held in Tokyo, Japan. The Philippines completed a beauty pageant grand slam after the country dominated the Miss Supranational through Mutya Johanna Datul and Miss World 2013 winner Megan Young.

A new medical report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, warns $30 billion Americans spend every year on vitamins and mineral supplements should probably be spent elsewhere. Researchers looked at past findings and concluded that vitamins and mineral supplements are ineffective in the general population who don’t generally have micronutrient deficiencies — that’s the majority of supplement users in …

The swindler and big-time political contributor known as Bobby Thompson has been sentenced to 28 years in prison by a Cuyahoga County judge. Thompson is the identity stolen by John Donald Cody, who established the U.S. Navy Veterans Association in Tampa, Fla. He solicited donations in 41 states, including Ohio from 2002 until he disappeared in 2010. And he made …

Thirteen years ago, Sara Blakely was a fax-machine saleswoman with a pair of pants that didn’t fit right. So she decided to cut the feet out of her pantyhose and put them on under her pants to make them lie smoothly. That was the inspiration for her company, Spanx, now estimated to have a market value of $1 billion.

Sprint is reportedly considering a bid for T-Mobile US – a $20 billion deal, according to the Wall Street Journal. Sprint is said to be studying the regulatory hurdles and could offer a bid for T-Mobile during the first half of 2014. The companies would have almost 53 million combined post-paid subscribers – the industry’s most valuable customers. That number …

In case you were wondering, which, amazingly, I was. But alas, Candace Cameron Bure has dashed any hopes we had of seeing her naked in a new interview in which she also says she won’t be doing any sex scenes. Scrooge.

As the holiday season descends upon us, First Lady Michelle Obama reveals how she preps the White House for the celebratory months ahead. In a recent interview with Ladies’ Home Journal, Mrs. Obama, who appears on the cover of the magazine’s December/January 2014 issue, says that what is most important to her when preparing the White House for the holiday …

Four-year-old Sherwyn Sarabi, who attends Rastrick Independent School, became the youngest member of MENSA aged three. Now, 12 months later, his IQ level has been tested again – and the results put him on a par with Albert Einstein and Prof Stephen Hawking. Sherwyn’s intelligence levels are way beyond his years. He has the reading age of a nine-year-old, a …

The US$111.05 (S$139.42) New York restaurant receipt dated Dec 7 includes a US$1,000 tip and the words “god bless!” scrawled across it. The handle @tipsforjesus is stamped next to an illegible signature. In recent weeks, similar tabs have popped up in restaurants from coast to coast and even in Mexico, with tips of as much as US$10,000 — all charged …

Joseph Ali says onlookers thought he was drunk when he dove into the nighttime waters around a Southern California pier, but he returned to shore with a monster of a lobster and the catch of a lifetime. Ali said he was closing his father’s business, Zack’s Pier Plaza in Huntington Beach, on Monday when he saw the ocean was calm …