In an outdoor usual hot spring, or onsen, in snow-covered Nagano, Japan, people get a rare up-close view of snow monkeys in their natural habitat.
The Jigokudani Monkey Park has been a sanctuary for these snow monkeys for 46 years. The monkeys lounge, appearing to approximately nod off in the steaming hot bath, almost all of [...]
Smokers in the Big Apple are mad, now that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has signed into law a ban on lighting up in city parks, beaches, public plazas and boardwalks. His administration banned smoking in restaurants, bars and other public indoor spaces in 2002.
90 days after Tuesday’s signing the ban will take effect. By this summer, [...]
After loading ham and bacon baguettes on to the flight instead of the standard kosher food, a United Kingdom budget airline has apologized to its Jewish customers.
EasyJet alleged that they made the mistake on a flight from Israel to London.
Several passengers were forced to go starving during the 4 1/2-hour trip from Tel Aviv.
An airline [...]
Japan suspends its yearly Antarctic whale hunt since an anti-whaling group is following its ship, a government official said Wednesday.
An official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Hirosh Kawamura, said the hunt has been “temporarily suspended” since February 10 due to the actions of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
“We have experienced the dangerous [...]
Do you stalk too much?
The Facebook Breakup Notifier is a new app for the site which is super simple — and will perhaps be super popular.
It will let the users pick certain friends whose relationship status they’d like to keep an eye on. The user will be notified by e-mail if one of those relationships [...]
It works just as well in half the time! That’s not a sales ground but the word from a latest study presenting that a flu vaccine produced by means of fast methods works as well as the popular vaccines now in use.
Finding a method to speed progress of flu vaccines has been a main concern [...]
In spite of the unconfirmed reports concerning the state of his health, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to meet up on Thursday night with President Obama and other tech leaders.
Reports in a supermarket tabloid and a gossip website have raised latest assumption about the health of Apple’s co-founder, who last month announced an indefinite [...]
Crystal Renn famished herself to move forward her modeling career. Now she said that she feels so pressured to eat too much – in order to live up to the “plus-size” label she was given after her recuperation from anorexia.
Who is really pressuring Renn, who has matured obviously thinner in recent months? Is it the [...]
Billy Ray Cyrus says his daughter Miley Cyrus’ Disney show “Hannah Montana” has “destroyed” his family.
In addition to his regrets about doing the show, Cyrus says he also wonders about his parenting. He said that was never capable of disciplining his six children.
Cyrus said, “How many interviews did I give and say, ‘You know what’s [...]
All through the very last round of the Dubai Desert Classic, Tiger Woods made a triple bogey.
But it was his single logy that is getting all the attention.
Woods was being fined by the European Tour after spitting on the12th green after missing a par putt – a move that prompted a TV announcer to call [...]
