Eric Cantor “it’s [not] my Tea-Party and I’ll cry if I want to” Republican House Majority Leader is soundly beaten in US primary by an obscure Tea-Party candidate Dave Brat
A video shows otters in the Smithsonian National Zoo playing an electric keyboard with “wild” enthusiasm. The instrument was provided as part of the zoo’s “animal enrichment program”.
It has been a year the auto industry would like to forget: GM has recalled 4.2 million vehicles, Toyota 1.8 million Jeep 1.5, Chrysler and Honda over 800,000, Ford 500,000
Ellen Degeneres has drawn the ire of Inuit hunters after proceeds from her Oscar “selfie” photo were donated to the Humane Society, a vocal anti-seal-hunting group.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the winner of the “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge”. The $100,000 first prize went to the California Institute of Technology for a solar-powered toilet which turns waste into hydrogen and electricity.