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Thousands of tech-savvy Eastern Europeans are earning up to $US4000 ($4600) a day for each spam campaign selling illegal penis pills, fake anti-virus software and counterfeit luxury products.

The Transport Ministry has clarified the terms of a new law that restricts the use of cellphones in cars, saying that from November it will be illegal to use a mobile phone as a satellite navigation…

Sylvie at Chez Plum shows you how to make your own lace knitting charts using software like Excel.

There’s Jake, there’s Elwood, and there’s Dr. Kreepy. In this video he shows you how to cast cheap prop skulls by blowing canned expanding foam from the hardware store into a blow-molded…

I don’t know if I agree with the idea that this shoelace rug “moves beneath your feat, creating an ever-changing sculpture that’s surprisingly comfortable and engaging.” Seems to me there’d…

A pregnant woman in Arkansas surprised doctors twice over when she went in for a routine ultrasound this June.

A bird-eating frog with fangs, an alien gecko equipped with orange eyes and technicolor skin, and a flightless bird are among the 163 newly identified species discovered in Southeast Asia last year…

There are reports of a worm spreading on Facebook, hijacking wall posts and threatening to compromise users’ computer security.

A 26-year-old American tourist travelling in India hitched a ride in a rickshaw last week and married the driver a few days later.

The stunning remains of a “four-winged” dinosaur have confirmed that birds owe their ancestry to two-footed dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago, the world’s most famous fossil-hunter said.

Twitter, which has no discernible revenue, is set to raise about $100 million of new funding that would value the company at around $1 billion, a person briefed on the company’s plans said Thursday.

A party advertised on the social-networking computer site Facebook has come to the attention of Tasmanian police.

Gentlemen, start your incredibly lazy engines: Honda has a new answer for those of us too tired to get off our keisters. Meet the U3-X “personal mobility device,” a unicycle-like ride that makes…

Victoria’s Twelve Apostles now number just seven after another of the rock formations tumbled into the sea off Victoria’s west coast on Friday.

Actor Brad Pitt has been honoured for his humanitarian work in helping rebuild hurricane-ravaged New Orleans at former US president Bill Clinton’s philanthropic summit, the Clinton Global Initiative.