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Russian Teacher Orders Students to Take a Bizarre 23-Hour Exam
Final exams are never fun, but for one university class in Russia, their test was particularly bad.
Not only did the instructor treat the class as her own personal happy hour, she also made it an impromptu sleepover.
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FBI Warns Thousands Could Lose Internet Access Monday – Here’s How to Stay Online
So this whole thing sounds a little like something from a high-stakes cyber crime movie.
Apparently back in November the FBI brought down a ring of hackers in a move deemed “Operation Ghost Click.” The hackers h
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South African Cops Will Now Confiscate Your Phone If It’s Used While You’re Driving
Although many states have enacted laws forbidding drivers from using their cell phones while behind the wheel, the fines for doing so are often so minimal that they often aren’t much of a deterrent.
But Cape Town, South Africa might have found the secret to compliance: cops there won’t just ticket you, they’ll take your phone away for 24 hours.
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‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ Pageant Stirs Intense Controversy [VIDEO]
Last Thursday, the Israeli city of Haifa played host to a most unusual beauty pageant. For one thing, all the finalists were over 70. And for another, they were all Holocaust survivors.
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Uruguay’s Government Considering Extreme Move By Selling Marijuana
The South American country of Uruguay wants to put drug dealers out of business, and it’s considering a rather novel way of doing it: the government itself would sell marijuana to registered citizens, making it the first country in the world to do so.
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The ‘Transit of Venus’ to Cross in Front of the Sun for Only Time Until 2117 — When Can You See It? [VIDEO]
Amateur astronomers may want to dust off their telescopes Tuesday because Venus will pass in front of the sun in an event that NASA says only comes once every hundred years or so.
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‘Canadian Psycho’ Murder Suspect Luka Magnotta Arrested in Germany
Luka Rocco Magnotta, dubbed the “Canadian Psycho” after he mailed body parts of a dismembered murder victim to Ottawa law enforcement and politicians, has been arrested in Germany.