The family of a 14-year-old girl who was beaten to death in Bangladesh says she didn’t commit adultery—she was raped. Hena Akhter’s family talked to CNN this week, and offered a heartbreaking story of the girl’s death. In their telling, Akhter’s much older cousin, Mahbub Khan, had repeatedly harassed…
Continue reading …Gravity pulls harder on the French than it does on Americans—and a new image proves it. The graphic from earth’s lowest-flying scientific satellite shows the uneven distribution of gravity across the world, resulting in an exaggerated “potato”-shaped image, the BBC reports. The new data could have big implications for…
Continue reading …Facebook gave one of its managers the boot after he violated company policy on insider trading, reports TechCrunch . Former corporate development manager Michael Brown bought company stock in the burgeoning secondary trading market, sources tell the site. Because Facebook is a private company, he apparently didn’t violate any federal laws,…
Continue reading …Nobody knows for sure who’s behind the Porn Wikileaks website, which is exposing the personal information of porn stars, but those in the industry have a pretty good guess. They tell the Daily Beast and Salon it’s likely a former porn actor and director named Donny Long, aka Donald Carlos…
Continue reading …We’re always hearing that this wine goes with that food, and feel guilty when we get it wrong—but what if it’s all a scam? asks Jason Wilson in the Washington Post . A new study suggests it might be: More than 60% of wine sipped by “high-frequency wine drinkers”—those…
Continue reading …Police in Moreno Valley, Calif., have arrested seven teens and one 19-year-old for allegedly gang-raping an 11-year-old girl in a park bathroom. The victim says she was about to get on a bus when a 15-year-old girl asked if she wanted to hang out at a nearby shopping center. The…
Continue reading …A woman in Oklahoma suffering from depression has found an unusual therapy pet—a 25-pound, partially paralyzed, one-year-old kangaroo—but city officials are unsure whether to allow her to keep it, reports the AP . “There’s just a myriad of things we need to consider,” said the town mayor. To help…
Continue reading …There’s a big gap between what the US is doing in Libya and how the administration is describing it—and while the White House’s explanation is “maddeningly ambiguous,” the actual operation is right on, writes David Brooks in the New York Times . Regime change is the ultimate goal, and insiders…
Continue reading …Felice Cohen’s Manhattan studio is all of 90 square feet, and she seems to have plenty of room for all the necessities. “I think a lot of people have a lot of space that they’re not using,” she explains in a video from faircompanies . It also helps to “organize up”…
Continue reading …The world’s largest concrete pump—a 190,000-pound machine with a 230-foot boom called the “Putzmeister 70Z”—is being sent to Japan to help the troubled Fukushima reactors, reports the Augusta Chronicle . “There are only three of these pumps in the world, of which two are suited for this work,…
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