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China’s purveyors of abalones and sea cucumbers are losing business. After Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a frugality campaign, sales of these luxurious seafood plunged at high-end Chinese restaurants. “As the number of lavish official banquets has dwindled, the sale [...]
For Moms in Finland, every day is Mother’s Day. A new report from the non-profit Save the Children says that the Scandinavian nation is the best country on the globe for mothers to live. As the Atlantic reports, the child [...]
Well, this is awkward. Members of the Parkham Women’s Institute in southwest England decided to dress up like pirates for a recent talk with a former sea captain. Sure, that sounds pretty benign, but what they didn’t realize is that he’d [...]
A dinosaur skeleton from the Mongolian desert that was allegedly smuggled into the U.S. is finally going home. (MORE: Sexy Dinosaurs: The Lure of Feathers) The fossilized remains of an 8-foot tall, 24-foot long Tyrannosaurus bataar (a relative of Tyrannosausus rex that lived around 70 [...]
After months of threatening rhetoric, North Korea has severed ties with South Korea. In April, it suspended operations at the jointly run Kaesong Industrial Complex, the last cooperative effort between the two nations. But the Kim leadership is having trouble [...]
Just how unsafe is food in China? Over the past three months, Chinese police have arrested more than 900 people for selling fake or tainted meat, including a criminal ring that processed meat from rat and fox and sold it [...]
Chris Hadfield, the current commander of the International Space Station and viral video star, introduced a new space-themed $5 bill in orbit this week. Although the 15-minute clip above is not nearly as entertaining to watch as the Canadian astronaut’s duet with the [...]
It’s not quite the same as King Kong coming to Tokyo, but a new art installation in Hong Kong featuring a rubber duck bobbing in the harbor has become the city’s latest attraction. On Thursday, a 54-foot rubber duck made [...]
King, Princess, Prince. Just because your own little darling is a sweet princess in your eyes doesn’t mean the government of New Zealand will let you name your newborn baby that. This week, the Commonwealth country’s Registrar of Births, Deaths [...]
A 17th century British tradition has ignited a feud among Hong Kong lawyers. The city’s solicitors want the right to don judicial wigs — those handcrafted horsehair headpieces worn by barristers when representing clients in higher courts. The solicitors’ request [...]
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