In German folklore, doppelgängers are considered to be a bad omen whose presence brings about misfortune. It feels all the more fitting then, that amid today’s geopolitical conflicts, increasing ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Strange secrets hide in the study of numbers. For instance, an orange used car is least likely to be a lemon. This particular unexpected finding came to light courtesy of a data jockey ...

Last October, a crowd of excited fans gathered around Washington Square Park in New York City for an unusual event. It wasn’t a concert, a movie screening, or even a protest—it was a lookalike contest ...

"GMA's" Becky Worley spends a week trying online pop-up sweepstakes. April 17, 2010— -- They're on almost every Web site and Facebook page: annoying pop-up sweepstake ads offering free vacations ...

Cappuccino Chips Are, Thankfully, No Longer HappeningWasabi Ginger has won Lay’s “Do Us a Flavor” contest in an apparent landslide, and no one is demanding a recall.

Glen Bolofsky doesn't think you should necessarily have to pay your parking tickets, and he's doing something about it. Years ago, the New Yorker got sick of paying off the endless stream of tickets ...