A dead whale has been discovered pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises luxury liner near Juneau, the third such incident for the company's Alaska fleet in a decade, officials said on Thursday.
The advertising catalog promised a new residential development, with a creche, tennis court and a mini golf course, minutes from the bustling center of the Irish town of Longford.
Spending as much as $250,000 on a bachelors degree from world-renowned U.S. universities such as Harvard University and Yale is a waste of money, a new book asserts.
A vicar was found guilty on Thursday of conducting hundreds of sham marriages between African nationals and cash-strapped eastern Europeans to allow illegal immigrants to gain residency in Britain.
A Dutch brewer with a penchant for competition has laid claim to creating the world's strongest brew: a beer that is some 60 percent alcohol by volume.
The brightest leaders don't just rely on their own intelligence to succeed, but use it to help their people shine as well.
Sales of the glittering rocks have shot up by 20 to 30 percent, Liu Yujie reports
Plato postulated about the golden proportions of beauty, the "magic ratios" that make a face pleasing to the eye.
If you've ever walked into any of the familiar looking Western luxury brand stores around Beijing, chances are you've walked straight back out again when noticing the less familiar prices.
As Rome's ancient Colosseum literally crumbles from neglect, the cash-strapped Italian government is looking for private sponsors willing to help pay for restoration work in exchange for advertising rights.
Paul Ilegems, a retired professor of art history, has a vision of heaven. It involves a simple Belgian pommes frites stand where "human souls ascended eat their fries undisturbed."
Catalonia, a region of northeastern Spain with a strong separatist movement, will become the first part of the country's mainland to outlaw the centuries-old tradition. It has been banned in the Canary Islands for some years.
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