A comical video clip of a seemingly old man taking on young basketball players is entertaining hundreds of thousands online. In this video, “uncle Drew,” is asked by his “nephew” to play in place of an injured player during a pick-up basketball game. After air-balling first couple of shots, uncle Drew starts draining threes, crossing over opponents before finally throwing an alley-oop pass to h...

Real Madrid’s superstar Cristiano Ronaldo boldly claimed in a CNN interview Thursday that he is better than his archrival Lionel Messi of Barcelona. “Some people say I’m better, other people say it’s him…At the moment, I think it is me,” said Ronaldo. Scoring a career-high 46 goals in the Spanish league and leading his team to the Spanish championship, the Portuguese soccer superstar finished a...

U.S. scientists have discovered that when a person gets suspicious, certain part of the brain ‘lights up’, much like a lie detector, Science Daily reported Thursday. Researcher at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute found that concept of suspicion is linked to two regions in the brain: the amygdala, which controls fear and emotional memories, and parahippocampal gyrus, related to recog...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration began an investigation over an alleged UFO sighting that nearly caused a plane crash, local newspapers reported Wednesday. A private pilot in Denver told authorities on Monday that his aircraft had a near-collision with a large, unidentified aircraft that was not detected on radar. The incident prompted the FAA to launch a probe over the mysterious objec...

An online video clip of a Hong Kong bus driver eating, reading, and talking on the phone while driving has appalled Internet users. The video, taken in secret by a passenger, shows the driver casually flipping through the pages of the newspaper, and enjoying breakfast while navigating a bus through the city’s notoriously bad traffic. Many appalled Internet users posted their discontent at the s...

Recent Facebook-related crimes are exposing a number of less-than-intelligent criminals who use the social networking service. Such was the case of two men in Colombia who recently robbed an Internet cafe. They waited until the time was ripe, held the owner at gunpoint, took the cash and made a clean getaway on a motorcycle. They did everything right except for one thing; forgetting to log out ...

The Jogye Order, South Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, is plunging deeper into crisis following a string of revelations of unbecoming and illegal conduct among monks. The scandal erupted last week when Buddhist monk Seongho exposed an all-night gambling and boozing party among his fellow monks, prompting nationwide criticism. He exposed on Tuesday that Ven. Myungjin and the order’s treasury chie...

The Bible says God build the world in seven days. Humans may not be able to duplicate the feat, but throw in a couple more days, and they just might manage to raise a building. Chinese builders have built a three-story building from scratch in a little more than nine days, BBC reported Monday. The pioneering techniques of the Broad Sustainable Building requires workers merely to put together p...

A mysterious underwater creature straight out of legend, or just your garden-variety marine life? A biologist has suggested that the nine-meter fish dubbed “Illie,” which has been spotted several times in Lake Iliamna in Alaska over the last several decades, may turn out to be just a strain of sleeper shark, according to local news reports. Bruce Wright, a senior scientist from the Aleutian Pri...

A YouTube video purporting to show a UFO near the Sun has re-ignited the decades-old debate over alien existence. The video, posted by user “rob19791” on May 5, shows what the user claims to be a triangular object hovering just above the Sun’s surface. The image featured in the video was provided by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The object seems to be over 100,000 kilometers in len...

Avid fans of the wildly popular online role-playing game ‘Diablo’ series have gathered in masses to buy the limited edition of the game on Monday. By early Sunday, approximately 1,300 gamers were lined up outside a store near Wangsimni station in Seoul to purchase the game, a day before it was even released. Desperate fans have even packed sleeping bags and tents to spend the night anticipating...

Up-and-coming actor and singer Suzy singled out a kiss with actor Kim Soo-hyun as the one which made her heart throb the most. Suzy, a member of a popular K-pop girl group Miss A, talked about her experience doing romantic scenes with some of the hottest male celebrities in Korea during an interview with TV program “Entertainment Broadcast.” “I was not sure at first, but now I ‘go with the flow...

Chinese actress Lan Yen has announced on Friday that she is a lesbian, according to Chinese news reports. The 26-year-old Lan said that she “would not choose men in reality” during a press conference introducing her new movie. The bold announcement caught many by surprise. She also told the reporters that her “eternal idol” was late Leslie Cheung, a world-renown Chinese actor who was also known...

Dave Hurban just loves his iPod so much that he would do anything nearly anything for it; even go through painful operation. The tattoo artist has surgically implanted four magnets in his wrist in order to hold his iPod Nano in a ‘cool way’, without bothering with wristbands. In a video produced by Kaledioscope Kreative, Hurban barely winces as he performs the surgery himself. He says the impl...