Street merchants in Manchester, England are selling Eau de Toilette perfume that’s the real thing — with genuine human urine.  Most likely its the French.

A Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis working paper concludes that cities abuse their use of traffic tickets to make up for declining local tax revenues.

What is the primary function of a class-action lawsuit? If it’s to punish a company monetarily for an alleged misdeed, then the system seems to be working fairly well, considering the hundreds of millions of dollars handed out in settlements each year.

Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize today for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans — microcredit — to lift millions out of poverty. Through Yunus’s efforts and those of the bank he founded, poor people around the world, especially women, have been able to buy cows, [...]

Illegal cellphones becoming so prevalent in prisons that convicts’ mothers are calling wardens and demanding to know why reception is so poor inside the facility.

Hours are colors and the moon is the minutes. The TWELV time telling system breaks out of the confines of our LED and analog past and presents a new look to the time piece.

The Internet is becoming an increasingly important part of political campaigns. If anyone has any doubt about that, all they have to do is glance at the numbers from a new survey conducted by Burst Media.

Thomas Sowell: Although socialism has long claimed to be for the poor, it has probably done more damage, on net balance, to the poor than to the rich. After all, the rich have enough money to leave the country if they think the socialists are going to do them any serious harm.

The online interactive reference site Wikipedia announced Tuesday that the site has been made accessible in China, after being blocked for just over a year by the country’s government.

It’s being hailed by its developers as the next revolution in visual technology – a laser television that will make plasma screens obsolete.