Electricity production must also be profitable for nuclear power plants, according to the facility's operator Teollisuuden Voima (TVO).

Parents of a 15-year-old Chinese tourist have apologized after the teenager defaced a stone sculpture in an ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple with graffiti.

You might think you know everything there is to know about this neon drink, but Mountain Dew has a rather rocky — and interesting — history.

Dutch Nick's infamous saloon in Empire, NV played a role in many early crimes. And his tarantula juice was the best -- or worst -- around!

"You have been on the record — all your adulterous acts, your sexual orgies extending far into the past. "

Rumor has it the rock band found an unlikely inspiration in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy.

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935…

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Your dog is basically a super social wolf, and scientists may have found the gene that makes him want to cuddle with you.

loss of the ability to create new memories after the onset of amnesia

Chinese eunuch

French advisor to Japan

minimum speed needed for an object to escape the gravitational influence of a primary body

circus school (1968–1997)

‘It felt like skinny-dipping,’ says singer Susanna Hoffs. ‘I ended up doing it for most of the album’

Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat.

A musician who broke every norm, Tharpe turned rock 'n' roll from a burgeoning musical style into an international sensation. She was — and is — an unmatched artist.

2014 film directed by Frédéric Auburtin

“I’m auctioning off his freedom,” the man who was kidnapped in Maryland bragged, according to court documents.

The blobfish is the world's ugliest animal. But we don't think the contest was very fair