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Russian officials explore ways to cash in on meteor strike
When a 10-ton meteorite exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, it injured more than 1,500 people, caused $30 million in damage, and sparked nearly 3,000 financial aid applications from...
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Kazakh website hosts vote for beautiful women in uniform
China's People's Daily may have taken some heat this week for publishing what the Shanghaiist described as a "leering" slide show of a "beautiful" journalist, but some news outlets in Kazakhstan have...
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Hugo Chávez, and 7 other perfectly preserved dead world leaders you can visit
Traditions aren't traditions if they're not a little weird, right? "We have decided to prepare the body of our 'Comandante President,' to embalm it so that it remains open for all time for the...
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Russia's Chelyabinsk region wants to trademark itself as world's 'meteorite...
The fervor may have died down a bit since Chelyabinsk, Russia was hit by a huge space rock in February, but the region is still working hard to turn that meteorite into money. As I noted in an earlier...
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Study: Government forces responsible for majority of rapes in Syria
Rape has played a devastating role in Syria's two-year-long civil war, but data about how prevalent the practice is in the murky conflict have been hard to come by. In one of the most ambitious...
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The next big thing in Japanese technology: coat-girlfriends
From the country that brought you the virtual-girlfriend game Love Plus comes the latest breakthrough in dating simulation: Japanese students at the University of Tsukuba have apparently invented the...
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Indian officials fortify elephant-vulnerable polling stations
In India, elephants are revered as the living incarnation of the Hindu god Ganesh -- but that doesn't mean Indians want the huge animals showing up at voting booths. State elections are slated to take...
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Brothers in arms: A brief history of sibling terror plots
News that the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are brothers has sparked a great deal of interest in their family history and the relationship between the two siblings. But if they were...
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Turkmenistan's president won a horse race in the most embarrassing way possible
During a race on Sunday to mark the Day of the Turkmen Racehorse, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and his horse Berkarar (Mighty), of the national Akhal-Teke breed, were the first to...
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Wait, the U.S. is making Mexican security officials take polygraph tests?
Fraying cooperation in the drug war will surely be top of mind as President Obama meets with his counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico this week. And perhaps nothing encapsulates Mexico's growing...
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Mapping the incredible spread of Mexican drug cartels in the U.S.
As Barack Obama heads to Mexico, U.S. involvement in Mexico's battle against drug cartels is getting a lot of press. But it's worth noting that Mexico's notorious narcotics trade isn't just Mexico's...
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How does America's suicide rate compare globally?
The suicide rate among Americans ages 35 to 64 rose by roughly 28 percent between 1999 and 2010, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Friday, up from 13.7 to 17.6...
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