Alan Van

Japan hit with its steepest population decline ever

Japan experienced its sharpest population decline ever in 2023, dropping 861,000 (0.7%) to 121,561,801 total, according to an annual report ...

2 Sacramento children missing after mother found dead in her home

Four-year-old Athena Lee and her 2-year-old brother Mateo Lee are missing after their mother, 28-year-old Angelica Bravo, was found dead on ...

UCLA women’s soccer coach makes history as Bruins win NCAA championship

The UCLA women’s soccer team and rookie head coach Margueritte Aozasa made history on Monday in more ways than one after the Bruins defeated...

Meet Camryn Bynum, the NFL star proudly repping his Filipino heritage

Minnesota Vikings safety Camryn Bynum is proud of his Filipino heritage, and he wants everyone to know it. After Bynum’s fourth-quarter in...

South Korea knocked out of World Cup by Brazil after 4-1 thrashing

There will still be no Asian national team World Cup winners after South Korea was knocked out of contention by Brazil on Monday. Brazil’s...

Couple’s Horrifying Video Reveals Every Hotel Guest’s Worst Nightmare

It’s a nightmare come true: waking up in your hotel bed to see an endless stream of bed bugs scurrying away to hide and rashes all over your...

HOAX: Woman’s Heartwarming Walmart Story of Cashier’s Mom Committing Suicide is Fake

// My Friday experience….. This will hit home…. You never know who’s fighting what battle. Watch what you say….. ...

PC Gamers Are Better at Sex Than Console Gamers, Study Claims

PC gamers are better in bed than gamers who play on Playstation and Xbox consoles, claims a new study. For their unusual study, discount web...

Self-Driving Google Car Gets Pulled Over By Police For Driving Too Slow

Self-driving cars of the future might rack up tickets for going too fast, but a self-driving car pulled over yesterday was ticketed for driv...

Why This Luxurious Wooden iPhone Case Will Set You Back $243

If you are in the market for a tasteful, ultra-luxe case for your iPhone, a Japanese company has you covered. From Matsuba Factory comes car...

Man Poses as Target Rep, Epically Trolls Customers on Facebook

Last week, Target Corporation announced that its stores would be eliminating gender-based signs for their bedding and toy sections because o...

Woman Wears Wrong Shoes For Graduation, Breaks Record For Longest, Most Humiliating Fall

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world,” Marilyn Monroe is often attributed as saying. ...

How Youtube Built a 1-Billion Monthly Viewer Empire

Just in time for the news that Youtube will be, in a smart marketing move, funding its own “premium” content starring its homegrown stars, i...

Jerry Seinfeld Just Threw Major Shade at The Entire YouTube Community

While Jerry Seinfeld’s latest rant won’t have many Youtubers laughing, is he only speaking a truth most of us already believe? Or is he just...

Chinese Father Offers $1 Rides to Strangers to Pay for Son’s Leukemia Treatment

What would you do if a loved one was dangerously ill but there wasn’t enough money to treat them? How far would you go? A man from the capit...

This One Adidas Mistake May Have Cost Them the Chance to Be Bigger Than Nike

You never, ever doubt Michael Jordan. OK, maybe as an NBA team owner, but as a basketball player or a brand pitchman? Never. (OK, fine! R...

8 CEOs Who Became Self-Made Millionaires Before Turning 30 [Infographic]

A recent poll found that 70% of millennials expect to be millionaires one day — this, despite the fact that millennials have a poor re...

Old Sweater Purchased For 58 Cents at Goodwill Sells for Over $43,000 At Auction

Who needs lottery tickets these days when Goodwill stores exist? Sean and Rikki McEvoy, a couple hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee, were loo...

Man Becomes Cyborg After Fusing Antenna Into His Skull to Hear Sound

I predicted the cyborg-human war in as early as October — because the prediction is unique and I want credit for it — and it now...

Wife Forces Husband to Kneel Outside For Hours After He Didn’t Hand Over His Paycheck in Time

Breaking news: Chinese wives are on an epic rampage, Chinese men’s penises to never recover. In yet another case of a Chinese man being cast...

Billionaire Wal-Mart Heiress is Demanding $90,000 From the Person Who Damaged Her ‘Cherished’ Tree

What’s a single tree worth to a billionaire? Too much, because billionaires are goddamn insane. Nancy Walton Laurie, who is worth nearly $5 ...

Rapping Venture Capitalist Gives Iggy Azalea a Run For Her Money

It looks like David Rubenstein has some serious competition in the “white male investor” rap game. Internet entrepreneur, blogger and invest...

This 8-Year-Old Boy Skips Breakfast Everyday to Buy Lottery Tickets So That His Sick Father May Live

“Happiness is a state of mind” may be a cliche, but damned if it isn’t true. Our happiness is strongly tied to our thankfulness, and no mat...

Gucci Blasted For Chinese Workers on 14-Hour Shifts Making Handbags

Apparently, Gucci has way bigger problems than their tacky, over-conspicuous monogrammed designs. The Italian fashion house announced it wou...

Harvard Business Professor Apologizes For Bullying Mom and Pop Asian Restaurant

  [Updated 12-10-14 11:01 p.m. PST: Apparently, this is NOT the first time Professor Edelman has bullied a restaurant] ...

Harvard Business Professor Declares War on Family-Run Chinese Restaurant That Overcharged Him $4

[Updated 12-10-14 11:01 p.m. PST] This is not the first time Professor Edelman has done this! [Updated 12-10-14 4:59 p.m. PST Harvard Busine...

iPhone 6 Scammers Preying on Tourists Continue to Give Singapore a Bad Name

  Goddamnit, Asians and their iPhone troubles never end. The story of a 19-year-old international student from India being bilked by an...

Jover Chew: The Saga of the Notorious iPhone 6 Scammer Who Made His Customers Cry

In Tarantino’s bloodbath masterpiece “Kill Bill,” the mythical Hattori Hanzo sagely tells the Bride, “Revenge is never a straight line...

Science Reveals How Far Your Germs Travel Every Time You Sneeze

As if you needed any more reasons to not fly on an airplane these days, a video showing exactly how potentially SARS/measles/cooties-infecte...

A Former Spice Girl is Named Top Entrepreneur in Britain

Britain’s top entrepreneur has been crowned, and it’s none other than … get ready for it … Posh Spice? ...

‘Wasting Time on the Internet’ is Now a Legitimate Class at This Ivy League University

Oh, college. Stories like these make you seem like more of a waste of time everyday — literally. ...

Everyone is Freaking Out Because Kim Kardashian Went to a Tech Conference

“Why is Kim Kardashian at a tech conference?!” TechCrunch blared out in headline form today. It’s a good question, but a rhetorical one. Why...

IRS Takes $33,000 Cash From an Elderly Mexican Restaurant Owner’s Savings

There are a lot of don’ts in the business world. If you’re a business owner, don’t do this, this or this, for example, because doing those ...

Christian Bale Cast as This Tech Legend and He Didn’t Even Have to Audition For It

Oh god, I hope Christian Bale doesn’t bring any weird voices to the Steve Jobs biopic. So, Christian, while I understand the temptation to ...

Microsoft Co-Founder Is Just as Overly Scared of Ebola as Everyone Else … Actually, He’s $100-Million Scared

Nearly two weeks after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $25 million to help fight Ebola, Microsoft founder and fellow billionaire Pa...

This is the Halloween Costume For Those With $1.6 Million to Spare

One year, a long, long time ago when I was but a tender, young beast, my mom decided to save a little extra money and time by having me go ...