It's been a very rainy day.

There is nothing more to say.

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Brutality and 'The Beast': why child migration to U.S. is slowing down

China to start direct sales of fruit and vegetables to Russia

Ukraine says may block Russian aid convoy

Geckos, renowned for the ability to stick to walls or cling upside down to overhead surfaces, have another trick up their sleeves -- well, on their feet -- the ability to turn that stickiness on and off at will, researchers have discovered.

The US Has a Scary Sewage Problem: Let's Clean It Up and Jumpstart the Economy While We're at It

Worries pile up as waste grows in Pakistan

Pakistan generates about 20 million tonnes of solid waste annually, and its dumps have become a hub for child labour.

Newly declassified court documents show one of the National Security Agency's key surveillance programs was plagued by years of "systemic overcollection'' of private Internet communications.

A 117-page decision by Judge John Bates of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court offers a scathing assessment of the NSA's ability to manage its own top-secret electronic surveillance of Internet metadata—a program the NSA scrapped after a 2011 review found it wasn't fulfilling its mission.

Bottled water comes from the most drought-ridden places in the country

When Did Republicans Start Hating the Environment?

Canada will donate 800 to 1,000 doses of an Ebola vaccine it has developed in its government lab to the World Health Organization for use in Africa, Canadian Health Minister Rona Ambrose said on Tuesday.

The decision to donate the vaccine came after the WHO said on Tuesday that it was ethical to offer untested drugs to people infected by the virus. The Ebola outbreak, the world's largest and deadliest, in West Africa has killed 1,013 people so far.

Aliens Could Live Like This: Life Found in Oily Goo

The Posters That Sold World War I to the American Public