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CBC Erin Greene of Montreal says she’s lucky to be alive after a 400-pound polar bear attacked her last month, pouncing on her and swinging her around like a rag doll. A Montreal woman says she’s lucky to be alive after a 400-pound polar bear picked her out of a group last month, pounced on her head and swung her ...

Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News Jabari Parker, possibly the best college player in the country, leads Duke past UCLA. Standing on basketball’s greatest stage and with a near capacity crowd watching his every move, Duke’s Jabari Parker looked more than comfortable. It won’t be long now. The 6-8 freshman still has what’s shaping up to be an incredible season to ...

A new discovery could let scientists artificially create crude oil in under an hour, accelerating a natural process that normally takes at least a few million years to complete. In nature, crude oil is the product of hundreds of species of algae and bacteria that grew, died, and slowly settled to form deposits of decaying organic matter. This matter builds ...

Those dastardly devils at iFixit have managed to get their mitts on one of Valve’s 300 Steam Machine prototypes and, of course, torn it down. Inside is a quad-core Haswell Core i5-4570, a Zotac GTX 780 graphics card, 16GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport (PC3 12800) RAM, and a 1TB 5400 RPM Seagate hard drive. If you wanted to build your ...

Alex Chapman via YouTube One Direction posted a video to YouTube on Thursday with a special message to the 16-year-old girl critically wounded in a Colorado school shooting. The members of boy band One Direction posted a new video to YouTube with a special message to the teen girl critically wounded in a Colorado school shooting. The world-famous band said ...

BrandlMichaela/Getty Images/iStockphoto/Getty Images/iStockphoto Angry outbursts caused by intermittent explosive disorder are associated with higher levels of inflammation, a U.S. research team found. Aspirin could help people with rage issues chill out, a new study suggests. Scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado have found evidence linking angry outbursts caused by the psychiatric condition intermittent explosive disorder ...

INFphoto.com Miley Cyrus and Kellan Lutz are photographed arriving back in Miami after an overnight trip to Treasure Cay in the Bahamas on Wednesday. Another day, another Miley Cyrus dating rumor. The 21-year-old singer was spotted exiting the same private jet as hunky “Twilight” star Kellan Lutz on Wednesday in Miami, sparking chatter that the two may be a hot ...

LDProd/Getty Images/iStockphoto The French are no longer sexting. Now, when they exchange dirty text messages, it is called ‘textopornographie.’ The language of love now has its own word for sexting: textopornographie. L’Académie française, France’s official language authority, decided that “sexting” needed a French equivalent, Vice Motherboard reported. RELATED: FRENCH IS SEXIEST LANGUAGE: POLL The academy, which was established in 1635 ...

Evandro Inetti/ZUMAPRESS.com A 51-year-old man doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday. VATICAN CITY — A man has doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. The Vatican said Thursday the 51-year-old man was treated at a nearby hospital and transferred to a larger ...

Chuck Burton/AP/AP Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman could find himself in a familiar spot in February as the longtime Giants personnel guru’s Panthers are looking like Super Bowl contenders. Back when Ernie Accorsi was general manager of the Giants and the team would fly back late from road trips, he’d sleep over on the couch in his office instead of ...