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Viral Videos: Gangnam Style Viral Videos: Gangnam Style
11 weeks ago - StateCollege.com - Steve Bauer
Today's Viral Video has become a phenomenal world-wide hit. And it just won't go away. As of today, this video has been viewed 1,378,292,885 times. Yes, that's over one billion views! [Read More]
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Powerball jackpot could go higher than $600 million
7 hours ago - Reuters
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Powerball jackpot being drawn on Saturday night could be even higher than the record $600 million being advertised, pushing it near or above the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, a Texas Lottery official said on Saturday. [Read More]

EU finds time to tell restaurants how to serve olive oil
8 hours ago - Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats on Saturday for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to impose strict new rules on how restaurants serve olive oil. [Read More]

Viral Videos: Infants Think Dad's a Gas Times Four Viral Videos: Infants Think Dad's a Gas Times Four
1 day ago - StateCollege.com - Steve Bauer
A full set of quaduplets can't stop laughing at their dad. The video says the quads are newborns but they're a little older than that. At least these tots are old enough to know what's funny. [Read More]

Canadian astronaut wrestles with gravity after spaceflight
1 day ago - Reuters
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Back on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-month stint aboard the International Space Station, the former commander told reporters during a video webcast from Houston. [Read More]

Dancer says showgirls dressed as Obama, nuns at Berlusconi party
1 day ago - Reuters
MILAN (Reuters) - The nightclub dancer at the center of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" sex trial told a court on Friday that guests at the media tycoon's parties dressed as nuns, nurses and U.S. President Barack Obama. [Read More]

Idaho man sentenced to seven years for killing zoo monkey
2 days ago - Reuters
(Reuters) - An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show. [Read More]

Los Angeles ranked worst U.S. city for dog attacks on mail carriers
2 days ago - Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles has earned the dubious distinction for the second year in a row as the U.S. city with the most dog attacks on mail carriers, the U.S. Postal Service said. [Read More]

From "bunga bunga" to "pianists" - Italy's political slang
2 days ago - Reuters
ROME (Reuters) - An encyclopedia of Italian political slang has shone a light on a colorful and Byzantine world where lawmakers and journalists speak a language you won't find in any ordinary dictionary. [Read More]

Viral Videos: Ground Control to Major Outer Space Rock Performance Viral Videos: Ground Control to Major Outer Space Rock Performance
2 days ago - StateCollege.com - Steve Bauer
You sure don't see this every day -- a remake of David Bowie's classic song, Space Oddity, actually performed in outer space. [Read More]

Parking meter 'Robin Hoods' provoke New Hampshire city's ire
3 days ago - Reuters
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - In December James Cleaveland made an unusual New Year's resolution: to do all he could to keep police in the city of Keene, New Hampshire, from issuing parking tickets. [Read More]

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