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Using the Hubble Space telescope and other observatories, astronomers have completed the most accurate census of galaxies in the observable universe to date. In terms of the actual number, let’s just say we were way the hell off.

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Ann Arbor restaurant will honor points promotion

Police in Paraguay raided a drug lord's prison cell, only to find he was living a life of luxury - with a kitchen, plasma TV and a library.

Steve Spurrier, who already has a statue outside Florida's football stadium and recently had the field named after him, will now serve as ambassador and consultant for the school's athletic department. Spurrier resigned from a similar position at South Carolina on Friday before the Gators announced his new role at his alma mater. ''I knew my coaching career someday was going to be over,'' Spurrier said during a conference call with reporters.

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President shocks with FSU but picks UConn title

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Florida is the latest school to start selling alcohol at sporting events. The University Athletic Association announced Wednesday it will offer beer and wine sales in premium seating at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and at men's basketball games in the O'Connell Center beginning this fall. Like most programs around the country, the Gators are looking to improve game-day experience in hopes of boosting ticket sales and create a new revenue stream at a time when costs are on the rise as schools pay athletes a monthly stipend.

Buildings were evacuated in downtown Chicago this afternoon as 69-mph wind gusts whipped glass out of under-construction skyscrapers, smashing them into nearby buildings and shattering them onto streets below.

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If you've been following the new series of Top Gear, you'll probably know that the BBC has been hunting for on-screen partners for presenter Chris Evans. There's already been plenty of speculation over who will join him, but today the Beeb announced...

Tim Tebow channels Rocky Balboa in sweaty Lip-Sync Battle

18 year old German tourist Andrej Ciesielski got a view that few people get to see - Egypt from the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It’s an illegal climb, and he was caught by police when he reached the bottom.

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The DeLorean Motor Company will begin production of a limited number of new DMC-12s at its plant at 15023 Eddie Dr. in Humble — the first new ones to be produced since 1982. Following recent changes to federal vehicle regulations impacting small-volume car manufacturers, DMC will assemble the iconic gull-winged sports cars mostly from long-stockpiled parts at its facility just southwest of the intersection of 59 with Beltway 8, though the engines will need to meet modern EPA emissions standards. DMC CEO Steve Wynne tells KPRC that the company expects to roll out the first of the unpainted stainless steel machines in 2017, and hopes to eventually produce a DeLorean per week. The company currently services and supplies parts for the original early-1980s DeLoreans, as well as renting out replicas of the DeLorean-based time machine employed in the Back to the Future movie franchise. The vehicle was originally produced by former General Motors employee John DeLorean, who started his own car company in 1975. Roughly 9,000 of the famous DMC-12 model were released from a plant in Northern Ireland starting in 1981, until to the company’s 1982 bankruptcy — itself followed by John’s acquittal of charges in a $24-million cocaine smuggling case on grounds of entrapment by the FBI. Wynne, a European car mechanic who began servicing DeLoreans in California in the early 1980s, formed an unrelated DeLorean Motor Company in 1995, which, in addition to servicing the cars, began selling DeLorean-branded clothing and accessories. Wynne settled an intellectual property lawsuit with DeLorean’s widow and estate just prior to Back to the Future Day last fall. DeLoreans to go back to the future and into production [Click2Houston] Q & A: Stephen Wynne, CEO of DeLorean Motor Company [NY Daily News] Lawyers Settle DeLorean Lawsuit Just in Time for ‘Back to the Future’ Day [WSJ] Today in 1984: Carmaker John DeLorean acquitted of cocaine smuggling charges by reason of entrapment [Legal Solutions] Photo of the DeLorean Motor Company facility in Humble, TX: James E. via Yelp … Read More

BUFFALO, NY—Howling with excitement after seeing the brand-new furniture set in the corner of the bedroom they now share, Buffalo Bills head coach Rex Ryan and his twin brother, recently hired Bills assistant head coach Rob Ryan, finally got the bunk beds they always wanted, sources confirmed Monday. “All right!” said Rob Ryan, who, shortly after scurrying up the wooden ladder and fitting his top bunk with new Bills-themed sheets, leaned over the side of his bed with his head upside down and gave his brother an enthusiastic high-five. “This is going to be so awesome. But we have to be quiet, otherwise Dad’ll get really mad and shout at us.” At press time, the brothers had reportedly stayed up the entire night quietly whispering about their favorite Cover 1 defensive coverage shells.

Snowboarder takes to streets of NYC during storm

So much for SpaceX's successful ground landing representing a sign of things to come. SpaceX has confirmed that the first stage of its latest Falcon 9 rocket suffered a "hard landing" on its attempt to land at sea, breaking one of the landing legs an...

New episodes of The X-Files are almost here. Let that sink in for a moment. The show is coming back for a special six-episode event on January 24, and now we've got the final trailer to whet your appetite. It features a bit more footage than the last...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida has fired defensive backs coach Kirk Callahan.

Plunging Crude Price Threatens To Drag Down Houston’s Residential Real Estate Market With It [Texas Monthly] Development Slowing as Fewer Than 1.6M SF of New Office Space Will Be Completed in 2017-18, According to JLL [Houston Chronicle] Houston Could Lose as Many as 50K Jobs in Manufacturing, Oil and Gas Before the Industry Recovers [Houston Chronicle] Lincoln Property Secures $60.74M in Financing for Galleria Place Office Campus [Houston Chronicle] Vacant Waddell’s Housefurnishing Building in EaDo To Be Converted into Lofts [Houston Chronicle] Surge Homes Starts Residential Developments in Upper Kirby, the Museum District, Midtown [Realty News Report] Magnolia, Richmond, The Woodlands Among Highest Apartment Rents in Texas, Finds Apartment List [Houston Chronicle] Second Ward Taco Joint Villa Arcos Changing Location and Name [Culturemap] Baker St. Pub & Grill in Rice Village Has Closed [HBJ] Photo of the Tarkett Site: Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool … Read More

It’s the future! But the Catholic church doesn’t seem ready to embrace it. A priest in the Philippines recently rode a hoverboard during a Christmas Eve Mass. But the Diocese of San Pablo has now suspended the poor hoverboarding Father.

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Spurs mascot catches bat during warm-ups

As you were tearing off the wrapping paper this morning, Beijing was waking up to the worst smog of the year, and a very different kind of white Christmas.

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Cards Against Humanity is known for its original approach to viral marketing, which this year is a particular kind of evil choice: internet voters will decide if an original Picasso is preserved for history, or chopped into 150,000 tiny mementos.

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Suspended Florida quarterback Will Grier is looking for a new place to play. The 19th-ranked Gators announced Saturday that Grier has decided to transfer, saying the redshirt freshman has opted to move on amid a yearlong suspension for violating the NCAA's policy on performance-enhancing drugs. ''Will came to me about exploring his options to transfer,'' coach Jim McElwain said.

Instead of offering reliable on-time service, zero baggage fees, and decent meals, airlines seem willing to try anything else to fill seats. According to Windspeed, an aerospace engineering company, one aircraft maker plans to offer its over-the-top SkyDeck seats as an option to its clients.

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ATLANTA—Alabama fans can breathe a little easier. Look, we all knew the Tide was going to roll over the Florida Gators on Saturday at the SEC Championship, and they did, beating Florida 29-15. Florida had demonstrated no ability to move the football without the assistance of motor vehicles, and whatever mojo had carried the Gators through to an SEC East title appeared to have vanished into the ether three weeks ago. Even so, Alabama's offensive engine took a half to reach fully operational status, and that had to have the Tide faithful concerned. If Bama can't run it up against Florida, what chance would they have against a beefier Oklahoma/Clemson/Big Ten opponent in the College Football Playoff? Worry not, Tide Nation. Alabama found its footing and methodically destroyed whatever meager hopes Florida might have had, notching touchdowns both on the ground (Derrick Henry carried the ball 43 times for 187 yards and a touchdown) and through the air (even as Jacob Coker's touchdown pass to ArDarius Stewart in triple coverage was more a product of a great catch rather than exceptional process). Henry also broke Herschel Walker's SEC single-season rushing record Saturday night. It's's an impressive accomplishment, and one that may get him the Heisman Trophy. Walker set the record in 11 games. Henry's done it in 13 and has one, possibly two, games left to go, though he has fewer carries than Walker did in his record-setting season. That follows an Iron Bowl in which Henry bested Bo Jackson's Iron Bowl rushing record. Two weeks, two icons. "They are like my heroes, my football heroes," Henry said after the game of Jackson and Walker. "Growing up and hearing their name and just watching what they did is incredible. For my name to be mentioned with theirs, it's an honor and a blessing." As Henry goes, so goes Alabama's offense, a fact head coach Nick Saban alluded to throughout his many postgame press conferences. "I don't know that I've coached many players that actually set a better example to affect other people," Saban said. After the game, Henry found his father, Derrick Henry Sr., in front of the Alabama band and cheerleaders. He walked up stairs from the Georgia Dome field and sat on the wall next to his father, handing the elder Henry the trophy to hold. "I'm just so proud of him," Derrick Henry Sr. said afterward amid the crowd of Alabama fans. "He's come so far. He's done so much." Indeed, Saban had to rein in Henry to keep his prize running back healthy for one, perhaps two more games remaining in the season. "He wasn't happy when I told him he wasn't going to play anymore," Saban said. "But when [Florida] scored, he got to play some more, and he was happy. Then he made me happy by the way he played. So everybody was happy." Alabama went away happy. But to call Florida's offense laughable would be like trying to find humor in a sewage treatment plant. The Gators wavered between incompetent and unwatchable. The Gators' touchdown came via punt return. Quarterback Treon Harris, who, aside from a 46-yard heave to Antonio Callaway, played quarterback like your dad was controlling him in a video game. The Gators' only saving grace was their defense, which managed to hold Alabama to a field goal and a late touchdown in the first half. (You can't blame the defense for Alabama's first score, a safety.) Once Alabama claimed the lead late in the second quarter on Henry's touchdown run, the only real drama came from the Dr Pepper throw-a-football-for-$100,000 at halftime. Nathan Garcia won a hefty little check for his tuition by tossing footballs into a giant Dr. Pepper can: Congratulations, Nathan Garcia on winning $100,000 from @drpepper in tuition! #SECATL pic.twitter.com/UEJZBRTx1N — SEC Sports (@SEC) December 5, 2015 WAIT A SECOND. What kind of throw was that? Let's take a closer look:

The man claiming to be “Phuc Dat Bich ”, the Facebook user who had been denied access to the social network as its “Real Name” policy had deemed him a fake, has revealed that the episode was indeed a prank.

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Remember Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time In Shaolin album? The group spent nine years recording 31 tracks for a special LP, then decided to sell just one copy of it -- for a very high price, of course. It was finally purchased by a private American c...

Gators' Grier loses appeal of 1-year suspension