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Argo upset Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty to win Best Drama at the 70th Golden Globes, with Ben Affleck taking Best Director days after his Oscar snub.

January 14, 2013 · 2 min read

Chronic sleep deprivation raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and dementia. Sleep is not downtime; it is maintenance.

January 12, 2013 · 2 min read

Hrithik Roshan turned 39 on January 10, 2013, and his wife's 'surprise' yacht party was no surprise at all: the newspapers told him first.

January 11, 2013 · 1 min read

The NRA reported about 100,000 new members after Sandy Hook, as fear of gun restrictions drove record gun sales instead of gun control.

January 10, 2013 · 2 min read

From eating breakfast to cutting white carbs, the diet strategies celebrities actually use, with honest verdicts on which ones are worth stealing.

January 10, 2013 · 3 min read

Furious at his gun-control crusade, Americans petitioned the White House to deport CNN host Piers Morgan. The White House answered with the First Amendment.

December 22, 2012 · 2 min read

A Social Security Administration employee in Baltimore was formally reprimanded in writing for excessive workplace flatulence, and the internet noticed.

December 22, 2012 · 2 min read

An Atlanta postal supervisor, a coworker, and four accomplices pled guilty to stealing $3 million in U.S. Treasury checks from the mail.

December 19, 2012 · 2 min read

Christian parents in Encinitas, California threatened to sue their school district over classroom yoga, calling it Eastern religious indoctrination.

December 19, 2012 · 2 min read

Pope Benedict XVI joined Twitter on December 12, 2012, sending his first tweet to the world's Catholics and to anyone else paying attention.

December 12, 2012 · 2 min read

Vidya Balan rushed to finish Ghanchakkar before her December 2012 wedding to Disney UTV chief Siddharth Roy Kapur, the industry wedding of the year.

December 10, 2012 · 2 min read

Diet, fashion, and now weddings: Indian couples are giving the big fat wedding a vegan twist, from dairy-free feasts to cruelty-free finery.

December 10, 2012 · 2 min read

Thieves dug up dozens of graves at Paris's Pantin cemetery for gold teeth, and gravediggers were among those arrested in the 2012 crime wave.

December 10, 2012 · 1 min read

From Russia's paperwork maze to India's beautiful chaos, eight destinations where even seasoned travelers are smarter with a guide at their side.

December 10, 2012 · 2 min read

Belgian researchers built a curved LCD display that fits inside a contact lens, promising text messages and directions projected straight onto the eye.

December 8, 2012 · 2 min read

When Charlie Bit My Finger passed 500 million YouTube views in 2012, the 56-second home video became the defining artifact of the early viral internet.

December 8, 2012 · 2 min read

On December 6, 2012, Washington's marijuana legalization took effect with a midnight celebration at the Space Needle and a wink from Seattle police.

December 7, 2012 · 2 min read

With days to go before December 21, 2012, panic buying hit China and Russia, shelter sales boomed in America, and believers converged on a French mountain.

December 7, 2012 · 3 min read

Jane Perez was sued for $750,000 over her Yelp reviews of contractor Christopher Dietz. The case became a landmark fight over online free speech.

December 6, 2012 · 2 min read

Skyfall took 94.3 million pounds in 40 days to pass Avatar as the UK's highest-grossing film ever, a fitting crown for Bond's 50th anniversary year.

December 6, 2012 · 2 min read