A massive earthquake in Chile has left at least 700 people dead and over one million homes damaged. The magnitude 8.8 quake also caused a tsunami that threatened the island of Hawaii but washed ashore before it could create major damage. A geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Hawaii “dodged a bullet.”
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Wall Street paid out $20.3 billion in bonuses in 2009, up 17 percent from a year earlier, New York State’s comptroller said, as the financial industry recovered fitfully from a near meltdown.
Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, and a group of 24 venture-capital companies will invest $3.5 billion in U.S. technology companies over the next [...]
The New York Times discusses college campuses where dating can be a daunting prospect for women, especially when they outnumber men.
A new report has found internet addicts are more likely to show signs of depression than casual users.
Fresno, Calif., tops Men’s Health magazine’s list of America’s “drunkest” cities while Boston, home to the “Cheers” [...]
Immigration reform that legalizes undocumented immigrants would help improve the economy, according to a controversial study by UCLA.
ESPN will launch a 3D channel this summer. The channel’s first broadcast will be the inaugural 2010 World Cup match between host country South Africa and México.
Officials in Nye County, Nevada have voted to legalize male prostitution. Bobbi [...]
A Chinese company is undertaking the largest foreign investment project in war-torn Afghanistan.
British hostage Peter Moore has been freed after being held captive in Iraq since May 2007, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced Wednesday.
Russia is considering a project to launch a spaceship to try to divert a large asteroid from hitting Earth after [...]
US Border Patrol officials have announced that drone planes, unmanned robot aircraft like those used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be used to track illegal immigrants on the California - Mexico border.
Technology not only makes it easier to cheat, it also makes it easier to get caught.
An iceberg twice the size of [...]
BuzzFeed looks at 40 things that were popular at the beginning of the decade and are not popular anymore; includes some nonsense.
The United States has only spent two percent of the $1 billion in aid it promised México two years ago to fight the drug war south of the border, according to a report by [...]
