Focusing and unfocusing your eyes is typically an automatic function, but there are some conditions that may make it difficult.

Ruth Madoff, the wife of imprisoned swindler Bernie Madoff, agreed to pay $594,000 and surrender her remaining assets when she dies to settle claims by the court-appointed trustee liquidating her husband's firm.

At his small wilderness cabin near Lincoln, Montana, Theodore John Kaczynski is arrested by FBI agents and accused of being the Unabomber, the elusive terrorist

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Researchers modify microbe to manufacture cannabis compounds including the psychoactive chemical THC.

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Martyred Intellectuals Day is observed on 14 December in Bangladesh

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Reality TV queen Kim Kardashian boasts an Instagram following of well over 100 million people a recent report states about half of them are fake.

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How Ian Fleming's unique writing approach helped create a billion-dollar franchise, an immortal character, and the world's greatest spy stories "My daily occupation in Jamaica is spearfishing and underwater exploring," wrote Ian Fleming, the now-legendary…

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