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I do! Bank of Korea opens up for weddings

Geoffrey Cain and Kaitlin FunaroApril 23, 2013 09:37

SEOUL — Starting in May, lucky Korean couples will be able to host their nuptials inside the Bank of Korea in an auditorium hung with the portraits of former central bank governors.

Curing lazy eye with... Tetris?

Faine GreenwoodApril 23, 2013 09:19

Video gamers have claimed for years that their favorite past-time isn't bad for your health, and new Canadian research has added some ammunition to the argument: they've found that regular games of Tetris helped lazy eye sufferers improve their vision.

Tanning salon tells woman she is 'too fat' to tan

Amy SilversteinApril 22, 2013 20:30

Her weight was not an issue until after the tanning salon sold her a month-long contract.

South African woman IDs rapists by smell rather than sight

Amy SilversteinApril 22, 2013 13:10Updated April 23, 2013 13:10

The men have since appeared in court.

China: officials seek to banish superstition

Samantha StainburnApril 22, 2013 11:56

Wang explained that religious belief in China had grown as people sought reassurance in a country that was changing rapidly, according to Reuters.

3 injured as shots fired at 4/20 Denver pot party

Kaitlin FunaroApril 20, 2013 21:40

Shots were fired into a crowd celebrating the marijuana holiday 4/20 Saturday in Denver. Three people were injured and tens of thousands fled as shots rang out at 5pm, just after the crowd shared joints for a massive, 4:20pm smokeout.

What's 'fake news' got to do with China?

Benjamin CarlsonApril 18, 2013 15:59

HONG KONG — Chinese media today was consumed with a strangely out-of-the-blue report of a Beijing taxi driver who claims he drove the General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping in his cab several weeks ago.

Celebrities tend to die earlier than the average person, study says

Alexander BesantApril 18, 2013 14:08

Celebrities tend to die earlier than the rest of us, according to a new study.

California man tells of night estranged wife Catherine Kieu cut off his penis

Ellen ConnollyApril 18, 2013 13:34

Man describes the night his estranged wife cut off his penis.

Archeologists discover oldest Egyptian harbor ever found

Samantha StainburnApril 18, 2013 12:50

The harbor "predates by more than 1,000 years any other port structure known in the world," team leader Pierre Tallet, an Egyptologist at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, told Discovery News.