Originally brought to Japan as pets, raccoons are being released into the wild when they become too big. Now it has become too difficult for Japanese authorities to control them. Julian Ryall reports from Tokyo.

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In 2006, Tom Shadyac seemed to have the world at his fingertips. He had directed nearly every one of Jim Carrey’s comedy blockbusters, including the “Ace Ventura” films, “Liar Liar” and “Bruce Almighty,” as well as Eddie Murphy’s remake of “The Nutty Professor.”…

The Deep Lake Water Cooling System or DLWC is a deep water source cooling project in Toronto, Canada. As a renewable energy project, it involves running cold water from Lake Ontario, to air-condition buildings located downtown Toronto.

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Yes, movie theaters are still closed. But one enterprising filmmaker has the No. 1 film in the US. And his story is better than any noscript.

Before credit scores were invented in the 1950's, lenders took a much more social approach to determining creditworthiness.

According to lead engineer Jon Simms, the new Rolls-Royce Ghost proved "too quiet" during the design process - making test drivers disoriented & nauseaous.

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Lions, tigers, and puns… oh my! The Jungle Cruise has become synonymous with the hilarious Skippers who helm the attraction, but few know that the iconic dad jokes featured in the ride did no…

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Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. She discovered artemisinin (also known as qīnghāosù 青蒿素) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century…

The alpha wolf is a figure that looms large in our imagination. The notion of a supreme pack leader who fought his way to dominance and reigns superior to the other wolves in his pack informs both our fiction and is how many people understand wolf behavior.…

In the age of coronavirus personal protective equipment has become ubiquitous. We all look like surgeons in public now, donning masks and gloves even to go grocery shopping. But however obvious it

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"Shotgun" — also known as "dibs" — is a well established way to stake claim to something. Here's how the term evolved from the roughshod Old West.

People used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor" But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't…