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MARK MAKELA/REUTERS An Amish horse and buggy travels on a road in Pennsylvania. An Ohio Amish girl fled her home with her parents after a court-appointed guardian tried to force chemotherapy treatments on the ill girl. The guardian dropped her bid Friday. TOLEDO, Ohio — A court-appointed guardian is dropping her attempt to force an 11-year-old Amish girl with leukemia ...

Caters News Agency Chris and Janet Wright got married in an underwater ceremony in the Indian Ocean. A bride and groom have had their dream wet-wedding day in an underwater ceremony under the Indian Ocean. Chris and Janet Wright floated down the aisle happily drenched from head to toe as they exchanged their vows in a unique under-the-sea service in ...

Nick Ut/AP Sriracha chili sauce bottles at the Huy Fong Foods factory in Irwindale, Calif. Yes, a Sriracha shortage might be imminent, but there’s a spicy new way to drink your sorrows away. Philips Distilling Company has debuted a new flavor in its UV Vodka line: Sriracha, which sells for $ 11.99 for a 750ml bottle and is touted as ...

H&M H&M’s new line was designed with input from Swedish Olympians. The Swedish fashion giant is not going to be left in the blocks as sports and lifestyle clothing booms. Perhaps it’s an obvious move, after the company announced this April that is would be dressing the Swedish Olympic and Paralympic teams at the upcoming 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, ...

Here’s a revolution in dining: At Contra, Jeremiah Stone and Fabian van Hauske’s new restaurant, waiters don’t come over to ask what you’ll be having. They tell you what you’ll be having. The premise is so simple that it’s actually controversial: The menu offers just a single prix fixe meal — and it changes daily, depending on the day’s best ...

ERIC THAYER/REUTERS Metro-North engineer William Rockefeller Jr. is loaded into an ambulance after the train’s derailment in the Bronx. Rockefeller was described by an investigator as ‘consciously asleep’ during the incident. The engineer at the helm during Sunday’s deadly Metro-North crash has been described by investigators as “consciously asleep” leading up to the incident. “I was in a daze,” William ...

/Gallery Books Joe Manganiello’s rock-hard body even drew compliments from co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger. You are your own worst enemy when it comes to getting the perfect body. Nobody knows this better than Joe Manganiello. Before the toothsome “True Blood” star became the face (really the body) of modern fitness, he was a 185-pound junior-high weakling who couldn’t do a single ...

hero30 /shutterstock.com Energy drinks appear to cause more forceful heart contractions, and those with irregular heartbeat may want to avoid them altogether, caution researchers behind a small German study that examined heart imaging of 17 people after they consumed one of the drinks. If you rely on energy drinks to give you a buzz, researchers are warning that all that ...

Robert Sabo/New York Daily News Our reporter, Justin Rocket Silverman, uses a pipette on a piece of meat as he observes the experiments going on at the Culinary Institute of America. In a windowless room 90 miles north of New York City, highly trained CIA scientists experiment with cutting edge technologies like ultrasonic homogenizers and “robovaps.” “We’re testing preconceived notions ...

Thanksgiving snuck up on you, didn’t it? Black Friday has come and gone and you have nothing for that sports fan in your life. You probably figured you’d have a whole month to get your holiday shopping done after you digested the turkey, cranberry and stuffing. Think again. As of Sunday, there are only 24 shopping days until Christmas. Oh, ...