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Adele and Ed Sheeran win at UK music’s Brit Awards

Adele celebrates with the award for the best British Album of the Year during the Brit Awards 2012 at the O2 Arena in London, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Soulful songstress Adele capped a momentous year of Grammy Awards triumph and medical woes with a double win at the U.K.’s Brit music awards Tuesday, taking prizes for album of the year and best British female solo artist before making an obscene gesture after the show’s host cut her acceptance speech short.

New Type of Alien Planet Is a Steamy ‘Waterworld’

Scientists have discovered a new type of alien planet — a steamy waterworld that is larger than Earth but smaller than Uranus.

Fugates of Kentucky: Skin Bluer than Lake Louise

Fugates of Kentucky: Skin Bluer than Lake Louise

Genetics and In-Breeding Cause Six Generations of Family to Turn Blue

Koran Burning at U.S. Base Sparks Afghan Protests

Koran Burning at U.S. Base Sparks Afghan Protests

NATO Says Burning of Korans Was an Accident

Hillary Clinton must not have gotten the white shirt memo!

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stood out from the crowd during a G20 group photo in which she was the only participant not dressed in a white button-down shirt. Instead, Clinton arrived wearing one of her signature pantsuits, this one a shade of chartreuse green. The photo-op was held at the G20 Ministers of Foreign [...]

A Trip to The iFactory: ‘Nightline’ Gets an Unprecedented Glimpse Inside Apple’s Chinese Core

A Trip to The iFactory:

“Okay.” “Okay.” “Okay.”The voices are robot feminine and they never shut up, each chirp a surreal announcement that another new iPad is about to be born.”Okay.” “Okay.” “Okay.”The factory floor is spotless under the bright fluorescent lights and with hypnotic rhythm, thousands of hands reach into a conveyor belt river, bringing each gliding gadget to [...]

John Burri, Father of Fallen Soldier, Burns NJ Flag to Protest Whitney Houston Tribute

John Burri, Father of Fallen Soldier, Burns NJ Flag to Protest Whitney Houston Tribute

A Michigan man whose son died in Iraq has burned the state flag of New Jersey after New Jersey flew its flags at half-staff in memory of Whitney Houston last week.”They’re watering down the term of what a true hero is these days,” John Burri told ABC News. “I thought it was offensive to every [...]

Grandma Stars In Dance Tribute To Whitney Houston

Grandma Stars In Dance Tribute To Whitney Houston

With all the Whitney Houston tributes in the last week one from a 90-year-old grandmother from Utah stands out.   With help from her grandson and caretaker, Adam Forgie,  Jeanne Harr – who  is legally blind  and suffers from moderate  hearing loss – posted a video…

Every February Yosemite waterfall turns to lava

In this undated handout photo provided by the Scott Gediman of the Yosemite National Park Service, the firefall from Glacier Point is shown in Yosemite. A window of time just opened in Yosemite National Park when nature photographers wait, as if for an eclipse, until the moment when the sun and earth align to create a fleeting phenomenon. This marvel of celestial configuration happens in a flash at sunset in mid-February _ if the winter weather cooperates. On those days the setting sun illuminates one of the park

A window of time just opened in Yosemite National Park when nature photographers wait, as if for an eclipse, until the moment when the sun and earth align to create a fleeting phenomenon.

Monica Lewinsky reclaims public attention thanks to PBS ‘Clinton’ film

Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern made famous for her sexual encounters with President Bill Clinton, is again in the spotlight thanks to a four-hour PBS documentary, “Clinton,” which will air in a pair of segments on the evenings of February 20th and 21st as part of the network’s ‘American Experience’ program. As news [...]