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By Associated Press: PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Seven people died from a lack of oxygen after climbing down a well in Cambodia to retrieve about 75 cents, police and relatives said Sunday. The incident happened late Saturday in a remote area of the northwestern province of Siem Reap when an 11-year-old... Sign in to see full entry.

By The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed: And the newest third-world country is....America! That's right. America looks a lot more like a third-world nation than the wealthiest country in the world. As CJ Werleman points out over at Alternet, while America is the wealthiest nation in the... Sign in to see full entry.

By David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy: The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other... Sign in to see full entry.

By: Naijaurban: Oh no! This is too difficult to believe. Simply unbelievable! A married pastor and choir mistress of the church he’s pastoring were caught LIVE having sex inside the church in broad daylight. [ Read on Here ] Sign in to see full entry.

By Melissa Healy: Here are some findings that could scare you to death: In a study published this week, Finnish and Estonian researchers report that they have identified specific levels of four chemicals circulating in the blood that offer a reliable signal that death is near. The four harbingers of... Sign in to see full entry.

By Colin Lecher: You may recall, NASA recently announced that a strange rock had somehow "appeared" in front of its Mars Opportunity rover. The explanations for the mystery rock were straight-forward: maybe some kind of nearby impact sent a rock toward the rover, or, more likely, the rover knocked... Sign in to see full entry.

By David Mccormack: A former Canadian defense minister has declared on Russian TV that not only do aliens already walk amongst us but they are refusing to share their advanced technologies until we change our warring and polluting ways. According to Paul Hellyer, who was a Liberal defense minister... Sign in to see full entry.

By COLLEEN CURRY: Pope Francis is the man. That's the sentiment being expressed just nine months after becoming pope in March of this year. An ABC News/Washington Post poll showed today that 92 percent of American Catholics view Pope Francis favorably, as do 69 percent of all Americans. The church's... Sign in to see full entry.

By Derek Thompson: In August, Science published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make decisions about school, finances, and life, imposing a mental burden similar to losing 13 IQ points. It was widely seen as a counter-argument to claims that poor people are "to... Sign in to see full entry.

BY John Hall: When we think of the world’s all-time richest people, names like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and John D Rockefeller immediately come to mind. But few would have thought, or even heard of, Mansa Musa I of Mali – the obscure 14th century African king who was today named the richest person... Sign in to see full entry.