by Piper Weiss, Shine Staff, on Thu Sep 1, 2011 3:30pm PDT You know the worst thing about going on vacation? Writing your out-of-office email message. It's always one of the last things on the to-do list along with bu...
High surf in Southern California A winter storm off the coast of Australia and New Zealand brought unusually high surf to the Southern California beaches. A large wave crashes behind a surfer at the Wedge in Newport Beach, Calif. on Thursda...
A rare Sand Cat has been born in Israel. The species used to be common in Israel, but is now extinct in the region. Renana, a 3-week-old sand cat, peers from a cave in the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesd...
1 This is the terrifying moment a cloud threatened to develop into a full blown TORNADO over a row of family homes. Brave snapper Pat Kavanagh took this shot of an explosive black storm from the roof of his house in Taber, C...
Snapshots - This weekly collection includes eye-catching images from around the world.... An impressive iceberg arrived in Newfoundland’s Goose Cove in mid-July. “Icebergs float in from Greenland,” s...
1. 1. The Milky Way is home to over 200 billion stars and 50 billion planets. These incredi...
The Last Song is a 2010 American coming of age drama film developed alongside Nicholas Sparks novel by the same name. The film was directed by Julie Anne Robinson in her feature film directorial debut and co-written by Sparks and Jeff Van Wie. ...
Economic View By TYLER COWEN Published: July 9, 2011 WITHOUT outside help, Greece is probably insolvent (无力偿付债务的, 破产的) right now. In evaluating the country’s prospects, it’s worth asking what it would take for Greece to pay all...
It's that time of year, when we honor college graduates across the country by sharing some of the best moments of their big day. ...
As summer nears, college seniors’ thoughts move past graduation and toward the job market. For many, that means internships(实习期). But before you take that leap(跳入) into the internship market, make sure you know what internships rea...
Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) already seems permanently young, but in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," he's hunting for the Fountain of Youth. Beautiful Angelica (Penelope Cruz) is along for the ride, and there's a confro...
Is there something stuck on your teeth? Oh no, that’s just a tattoo(文身) of Prince William and Kate Middleton. One man has officially won The Windsor Knot’s royal wedding mania(狂热病) title by willingly paying £1,000 to ...
Wakana Kumagai, 6, waits for her mother Yoshiko after visiting the grave of her father, who was killed by the March 11 tsunami, at a temporary mass grave site in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi prefecture, April 21, 2011. Reuters reports: Six-yea...
What does it take to age successfully? It’s a question researchers began to explore in earnest in the past 20 years, when it became clear that our understanding of aging no longer fit a world of active adults in their 80s, 90s, and beyo...
Around 3,000 people marched through central Tokyo, a large demonstration by Japanese standards(按日本的标准). The demonstration was organized by eight civic(市民的，民间的) groups to protest the Hamaoka nuclear-power plant(核电站), which is loc...
1. Marry an ugly man. Because if he ever leaves you, at least you won't feel bad since, you know, he's ugly. -- Lorraine Ontong Venturina 2. Unfortunately, it was advice that I didn't listen to. In 1986, as he was walking me down the a...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson on Tuesday unveiled(揭掉……的面纱) a new single-person submarine(潜水艇) that he said will be used to set new world records by exploring the five deepest parts ...
Knut, the polar bear(北极熊) who became a global celebrity as a cute cub(幼崽), died in at the Berlin zoo March 19, 2011 at the age of four. Knut, the first polar bear born at the zoo for more than 30 years, was rejected by his mother and fed instead...
These aerial photos show locations in Japan before and after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck on Friday, March 11. ...
Fly little bird! Fly! iPhone game "Tiny Wings" has soared to the No. 1 spot in Apple's App Store. No word on how angry that makes those other birds. It's all about the birds these days. Witness, for example, "Angry Bird's&quo...