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Seventeen-year-old Catherine Ray just received a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship. Armed with a B.S. in computational physics, the mathematics whiz is planning to fix everything that’s wrong with wheelchairs. Get to know the teen technorati.

Seventeen-year-old Catherine Ray just received a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship. Armed with a B.S. in computational physics, the mathematics whiz is planning to fix everything that’s wrong with wheelchairs. Get to know the teen technorati.

She’s double-majoring in computer science and human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon. She also just won a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship to develop a platform for customizable education-based games. Get to know teen technorati Lucy Guo.

She’s double-majoring in computer science and human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon. She also just won a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship to develop a platform for customizable education-based games. Get to know teen technorati Lucy Guo.

The remarkable career of a former first lady, U.S. Senator, secretary of state and presidential candidate

Veteran pollster John McLaughlin has a recent history of missing the mark by a wide margin.

An absurdly brave tourist named Tor Bowling is touring the Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand when a large elephant charges at him. “I always think (everything that happens to me) is a special moment and I think I’m lucky to have had the chance to experience that,” he told the New York Daily News.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, head of the Republican Governors Association, gave California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari a boost Friday, calling him “our candidate” and vowing that he and his GOP organization will help him beat Gov. Jerry Brown in November. “I’m the RGA chair. I’m here. I’m supporting Neel. I will do whatever needs to be done to make this race competitive,” Christie said at a press conference in San Francisco. “At the end of the day, it’s up to him … each race is up to the individual candidate,” Christie said. Читать дальше...

This week in tennis news brought us Roger Federer talking about his supportive spouse, Rafael Nadal slip-sliding on the grass, Serena Williams hanging with Usain Bolt and Ernests Gulbis discussing his gambling woes. Plus, watch Maria Sharapova recap her most embarrassing moment and see photos of Novak Djokovic’s “bachelor” party.

If the sun's beating down, but you still need to wear a suit, don't sweat it. Here are the best summer suits that will keep you feeling and looking cool all sun season.

Alexander Serruys, a bus driver from Bruges in Belgium, entered a Valentine’s Day contest promoted by U.K.-based travel agency Thomas Cook. After family members were was let in on the surprise, they pretended as if the bride-to-be, Marieke van De Wal, had won a girls trip with her sister. During the flight, family members were seated at the back of the plane to keep the wedding a secret.

The attention is all in the details on set at Star Trek Continues. As the cast and crew begin to film the latest episode—a follow-up to the episode “Mirror, Mirror,” which took place in the second season of the original series—see how Vic Mignogna and team re-created the incredibly detailed set.

In a May 9 preliminary decision, the U.S. International Trade Commission determined "there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of sugar from Mexico that are allegedly subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value." As a result, antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into the questions of domestic injury, dumping, and subsidization will proceed with final determinations expected in early 2015.

The world is going crazy for pandas: French artist Paulo Grangeon has been touring the globe with 1,600 papier-mâché pandas. His mission is to bring awareness to the need to protect endangered species.

Intended to pick up where the original show left off, the web series “Star Trek Continues” has brought about a wave of nostalgic appreciation for the classic sci-fi show. After a successful Kickstarter campaign and now, with two full webisodes under its belt, the show, by producer/director/super fan/star Vic Mignogna, is ushering in brand-new voyages of the starship Enterprise.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trading in Friday’s session are Intel and Finisar.

Academy Award-winner Tim Robbins brings his Los Angeles production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to Beijing and Shanghai.

Julie Mertens, fashion buyer. Zara vest, skirt and bag, Essentiel shoes, Paul Smith glasses.

Shanghai and Beijing were ranked the world's 3rd and 4th most expensive cities for expatriates in a March survey, outstripping even notoriously pricey destinations for expats such as Hong Kong and Singapore.

This European-style home in suburban Manila is built for a large family and outdoor entertaining.

The United States, argues Barry R. Posen, has grown incapable of moderating its foreign policy ambitions. Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that has tended to overreach, generating a host of failures and encountering many unexpected difficulties along the way.