| Sixteen protesters were arrested in Ferguson, Missouri, on Friday night, as demonstrations raged on for a fifth day since Monday's grand jury announcement Those arrested Friday were among 100 who marched in front of the city's police and fire departm... | | | | | | KIEV, Ukraine — A haunting, abandoned amusement park. The tarnished Soviet hammer and sickle emblem atop an empty apartment complex. A forest rising from the cracks of a city square. Not a soul in sight. It's a sprawling, decaying landscape overgrown with vegetation, a ghost city frozen in time. See also: Radioactive Boars Still Found in Germany Decades After Chernobyl Such is the view from a drone hovering over Ukraine's Chernobyl and the deserted city of Pripyat, home to one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. Danny Cooke , a British filmmaker, captured the incredible aerial footage during a visit earlier this year while on assignment with CBS News' 60 Minutes to the nearly 1,000-square-mile radioactive area known as the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Read more... More about Us World , World , Drones , Ukraine , and Chernobyl | | | | | | Happy Small Business Saturday! We'd like to offer you 25% off the price of your Mashable Media Summit ticket. The Media Summit is a day-long conference held at the Hudson Theater in New York City on Dec. 5, which looks at the impact of digital on th... | | | | | | DAKAR, Senegal — Sierra Leone will soon see a dramatic increase in desperately needed Ebola treatment beds, but it's still not clear who will staff them, according to the top United Nations official in the fight against the disease. Ebola has sickened more than 16,000 people of whom nearly 7,000 have died, according to figures released by the World Health Organization Friday. See also: The next deadly disease outbreak could be prevented by veterinarians Sierra Leone is now bearing the brunt of the eight-month-old outbreak. In the other hard-hit countries, Liberia and Guinea, WHO says infection rates are stabilizing or declining; but in Sierra Leone, they're soaring. The country has been reporting around 400 to 500 new cases each week for several weeks. Read more... More about Sierra Leone , Us World , World , and Ebola | | | | | | Toss out the turkey and crank up Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas, because the holiday season is finally upon us. As we celebrate all that's merry and bright, you likely must attend a holiday party or two. And what would Christmas be without gaudy deco... | | | | | | If you don't have a big stick, don't bother speaking softly A recent study from the Columbia School of Business found that when people were put in positions of power, their voices automatically rose in loudness variability and pitch, but lowered in p... | | | | | | Since the beginning of time, humans have speculated what animals are truly thinking The human-animal language barrier really puts a damper on things, if only we could get into the minds of our animal friends and figure out what they really mean with ... | | | | |
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