It raised the ethical question of when a photographer should intervene

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It raised the ethical question of when a photographer should intervene

Learn what happened today in history around the world including major events on crime, entertainment, and more.

Mark Oberholtzer sues a Ford dealership for $1 million-plus in damages after his old pickup ended up with Islamic militants in Syria.

More than 200 miles of tunnels sit just under the City of Lights—some lined to the ceiling with skulls and bones

For the past couple of days, 22-year-old John McCue has been out with his snow shovel filling in potholes on Westville Road with gravel and fill. He said the authorities don't like what he's doing, but drivers do.

American jockey

Altoids are a brand of mints. The brand was created by the London-based Smith & Company in the 1780s, and became part of the Callard & Bowser company in the 19th century. Their advertising slogan is "The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong Mints", referring…

incident in World of Warcraft

According to the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 86.3 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime; 70.1 percent reported that they drank in the past year; 55.9 percent reported that…

For 130 years a giant tree-like stump had baffled paleontologists. Was it a plant, an alga, a lichen or something entirely different? A fossil dug up in Saudi Arabia gave the last word in a new study – it was a humongous fungus.

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reaction of Muslims to a 1988 novel

Spy for France during the Second World War

The 1901 constitution has been amended more than 800 times and is the longest constitution in possibly the world, at what the Council of State Governments says is 388,882 words.

 In 1998, Sony accidently released a Night Vision camcorder that had the ability to see through people’s clothes. The situation was discovered by Greg Hunter who demonstrated the same with the help of two volunteer models.