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A diffused unexploded World War II bomb was found in Berlin, Germany on April 3. Rail services to and from the capital were disrupted and residents were evacuated from their houses following the discovery of the unexploded 100 kilo bomb near to the rail tracks of the Hauptbahnhof.

Google has announced the beta version of Treasure Mode for Google Maps after finding Captain Kidd’s 315 year-old map in a September 2012 expedition. The digitized version of Kidd’s map has since been released to the public and it allows anyone to explore his long-lost treasure map (be sure to check out the ‘telescope’ feature). They have invited the whole world to come together and help them decipher the encrypted symbols of Kidd’s buried secrets. Let's go!

More surveillance please! Researchers at Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering have created Cyro, an autonomous robotic jellyfish that’s roughly the size and weight of a grown man, for the purpose of underwater surveillance. The 170-pound Cyro prototype and a smaller, hand-sized “RoboJelly” robot were created as part of a project funded by the US Navy. Cyro is modeled after the lion’s mane jellyfish, and measures five feet and seven inches long.

A reigning pope and a former pope faced each other for the first time in at least 600 years on Mar. 23 when Pope Francis traveled south of Rome for lunch with his predecessor, pope emeritus Benedict XVI. Francis, who was elected on March 13, flew by helicopter to the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, where Benedict has been living since he abdicated on Feb. 28.

Europeans might be a little confused on winters icy grip. The snow should be thawing as spring time temperatures should have started to come by now. Its hard to tell if its Christmas time or Easter time in Europe. London is going to remain below freezing temperatures on this Easter Holiday. Even though its not your typical spring time weather some people ventured out to the beaches and are enjoying the weather anyway.

When Katelyn Norman, a brave 14-year-old girl from LaFollette, Tennessee who suffers from cancer, was deemed too ill to attend her prom, her friends decided to bring the festivities to her hospital bedside instead.

Australian model caught distracted during a photo shoot when the first plane hit tower 1. What an epic photo. It’s so weird to think that normal things were happening on 9/11. People were walking their dogs, riding their bikes, models were doing photoshoots… and the planes hit.

Holi is an incredibly colorful and dynamic religious festival celebrated to welcome the beginning of spring and to commemorate various Hindu legends. It's mainly celebrated in India and Nepal. It also occurs in some parts of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Guyana, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States and Fiji. People cover each other in colored powder and water, and have a good old time dancing, laughing and being crazy. It looks like a super fun rave party. I'm in! Here are the best photos of 2013, Holi celebration in India.

Edith Windsor walked out of the court after arguments in her case challenging the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and a huge roar erupted from the crowd of fans gathered on the Supreme Court steps. Windsor sued the federal government after she was forced to pay additional taxes because it did not recognize her marriage to a woman (Thea Spyer) under the law known as DOMA. Gay Marriage is all over the news right now and almost everywhere it seems like people are fighting for equality for all.

This six bedroom penthouse in Monaco is on sale for $380 million dollars. Each day you can wake up and take your private water slide into the infinity pool on the top of the building. Wouldn't this be an awesome place to live?

Despite massive international pressure, North Korea has been moving ahead with its long-range missile and nuclear ambitions, launching a rocket in December and conducting a nuclear test in February. International sanctions tightened in response, and even China, a longtime ally, stepped up inspections of North Korea-bound freight. Responding to the crackdown, North Korea's government has been issuing new threats of war nearly every day over the past month, cutting ties to South Korea and ordering military units to prepare for attack at any moment. Over the past month, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea's official media division, has been issuing a stream of images of military exercises, soldiers in training, and, of course, supreme leader Kim Jong Un inspecting and inspiring the troops. (At least one of these images appears to be digitally manipulated). Gathered here are recent KCNA photographs of North Korea's war machine, as the country wishes the world to see it. The photos were distributed by Reuters, AFP, and AP as a service, and cannot be independently verified or authenticated.

The new photographic series “Smoking Kids” by conceptual photographer Frieke Janssens is unsettling, disturbing, provocative & unquestionably compelling. She photographed children aged between four and nine, theatrically clothing them to mimic their “glamour” stereotypes – all of which are associated with smoking. From the vintage cinema dame, to the worn out housewife through to the tough guy having a big drag on a fat cigar – all portrayed & captured in melancholy detail.

At 86 years old Hugh Hefner is still going strong. He is currently on his third wife Crystal Harris who is 26 years old. His number of wives doesn't come close to the number of women he has slept with over the years. When asked just how many women Hefner replied "Over a thousand, I'm sure" and when asked for a specific number he replied " How could I possibly know?" Hefner probably lost count a long time ago. Just because his numbers were high doesn't mean Hefner wasn't faithful. Hugh said that he has always been faithful in each of his marriages. He explained that he made up for the time lost when he wasn't married. At one point he was dating up to 7 girls at once and even had a TV show on E! called "The Girls Next Door" which featured Hugh dating 3 of his playboy playmates at the same time. Hugh married Crystal Harris last new years eve and they both explained how in love they are regardless of the age difference. Crystal said “Hef loves me more than anybody else in a relationship ever has. It took me time away to realize that. I think I realized that here is where I’m meant to be.” Happily married Hugh is back to staying faithful for now. Lets see how long this marriage will last.

Kings Park Psychiatric Center is located in Kings Park, New York. It operated from 1885 until 1996, when the State of New York closed the facility, releasing its few remaining patients or transferring them to the still-operational Pilgrim Psychiatric Center.

Penny Smith, 35, of California is one of the rare few who have had the opportunity to cradle her own (old) heart in her own two hands. But she's mainly happy to enjoy the opportunities for life her new heart gives her.

When triplets Audrey O'Donnell and Alan and Eric Lucas were born in 1933 they were so tiny their chances of survival looked slim. Without the the benefit of today's technology, doctors had predicted their mother Doris may have been carrying twins using an ear trumpet. Audrey was born first weighing 5lb, followed by Alan 20 minutes later weighing 3lb and surprise addition Eric came 20 minutes after that at just 2lb.

Interesting collection of important pictures and short stories behind them. These Historical photos all have incredible backgrounds. Take a look, you might learn something.

Hanna Maria Heidrich has created a beautiful, short story about humanity’s ever growing disconnect from the natural world. She’s a film student at Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg in Germany – one to watch for the future surely.

If you’re not familiar with the prolific Frank Zappa featured above, here’s a brief history lesson. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works, directed feature-length films, music videos and even designed album covers. Equally impressive, is that he produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. But what I truly love about Frank Zappa, is that on September 19, 1985 he testified before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center – a music organization co-founded by Tipper Gore, wife of then-senator Al Gore. The PMRC was founded to address the issue of song lyrics with!252?id=216340sexual or satanic content. Naughty naughty. Zappa (quite rightly) saw their activities as on a path towards censorship, and called their proposal for voluntary labeling of records with explicit content “extortion” of the music industry. Soon after he became the voice of anti-censorship & freedom of creative expression – which lead to his iconic appearance on “CNN’s Crossfire” show where he debated that music videos, songs and recordings about remain uncensored. I’ll let the man and his views speak for themselves in the footage from that show – but simply put, I agree 110% with him.

Lululemon stated in a release: "The ingredients, weight and longevity qualities of the pants remain the same but the coverage does not, resulting in a level of sheerness in some of our women's black Luon bottoms that falls short of our very high standards." The company shares have tumbled Monday afternoon due to these news. 

As Lululemon climbed up the ranks of sportswear and appears a favorite among all the yoga-doing, gym-going, track-running ladies out there, it has similarly been a favorite among many men who claim to only attend yoga classes to ogle at the ladies in their sexy Lululemon attire. Hence, does the general public really mind the 'sheerness' of their products or is Lululemon just trying to uphold a more conservative reputation? 

Oh Lindsay, Lindsay...Los Angeles (CNN) reported yesterday that Lindsay Lohan agreed to spend 90 days in a "locked in" drug rehab facility as part of a plea deal to settle criminal charges against her Monday.The actress entered pleas of no contest on two misdemeanor charges relating to a traffic accident last summer, and she did not challenge the finding that she violated her shoplifting probation with those convictions.Her six years of legal troubles trace back to two drunken driving arrests in 2007 and include other incidents in which she was behind the wheel. Someday you'll learn that being celebrity doesn't mean you can do whatever you want Lindsay baby, stay out of trouble!

In recent years Mercedes-Benz was working really hard to become more appealing to younger customers (noted for luxury their usual market is 40+). The result is all new  2014 CLA sedan, which is a strong step in that direction offering style and performance with a taste of Benz luxury and engineering at a base price of US$29,000. Take a look at this baby, maybe this could be your next ride.

Everyone knows the common negative effects of sleep deprivation, such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and heart desease, however it doesn't make the majority of people smarter about their sleep. Our bodies need a good 8 hours of sleep but according to a Centers for Disease Control report released in 2012 almost 1/3 of working adults in America get only 6, and it gets even worse in Daylight Saving. A recent study of two hospitals in Michigan found that they treated almost twice as many heart attack victims on the first day of Daylight Saving, and that there are usually more car accidents following the time change. But the main poin here is a new discovery made in a study just published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences". It's proven that getting too little sleep just a few nights in a row disrupts hundreds of genes responsible for stress and fighting diseases. Different genes turn on and off, and the ones that became active with lack of sleep, were involved in inflammation, immunity and protein damage. So people Sleep On!

 Never ending redesigns of web sites we are using, we get comfortable to only find a totally different interface next time we type out urls of our favorite web places. Today, Facebook announced a redesign of its News Feed aimed to “reduce clutter” and highlight photos, videos, and articles. The new design will also add content-specific feeds for photos, music, and games, as well as an All Friends feed and a Following feed to track updates from pages you like and people you follow.

Watch this Law student totally own a policeman. This Law Student knows his stuff and refuses to give anything up to the police man. Watch this student absolutely own this cop

Miss Delaware Teen USA, Melissa King, has resigned her title and crown after allegations of her being featured in a pornographic video. Some comments on a porn website have identified her as the female from the video, however King strongly denies these comments.

In the comments in the video, a woman who strongly resembles King says she just turned 18 three months ago, which matches up with King's birthday. The women also states that she has done beauty pageants before, thought this would be fun and needed the money.

Miss Teen USA pageant is owned by Donald Trump as part of the Miss Universe organization and has had a number of sex tape scandals, including Carrie Prejean, Miss California 2009, and Anya Ayoung-Chee.

Thousands of spiders descended down on shocked residents of Santo Antonio da Platina, a city near Sao Paulo, Brazil. This particular species called the "Anelosimus eximius" is very social, and lives in large colonies, each one is the size of a pencil eraser. The spiders make huge webs on trees, and strong winds, which are very common in the area this time of year, can tear down their webs and carry the whole colony consisting of 1000 or more spiders around the city. In this case a bunch of these poor spiders got stuck on telephone poles and wires, which made it seem like a cloud, or rain of spiders. Pretty crazy, I would definitely not want to be one of the witnesses on site.

No electricity No problem! In Africa, the "Luci" is a sustainable light source brought to three billion people around he world by Indiegogo. Luci was designed by MPOWERD to assist those around the globe withou electricity.

A 15 year old 9th grader Rylee MacKay was suspended from Hurrican High school in Utah after principal Roy Hoyt said her red hair color seemed pinkish purple on the light, and didn't belong to a natural color spectrum according to Washington County School District dress code: “Hair, including beards, mustaches and sideburns, should be groomed so that it is neat and clean. Extreme hairstyles are prohibited. Hair color should be within the spectrum of color that hair grows naturally.” Rylee's mother is outraged and will not oblige with school administators request to dye Rylee's hair brown in order to be able to come back to school. Other mothers are also speaking out, on that rule being too harsh.