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Let me describe a scene every woman I know is painfully familiar with. You're in a bar, three drinks in, sidestepping abandoned plastic cups and men who've decided it's a good idea to wear a "casual waistcoat" into the real world, when a guy with brewery breath comes up behind you. If you're lucky, he'll choose not to touch you before saying hello. More likely, though: he'll snake his arm around your waist. If you're really lucky: that man – whose face you haven't even seen yet – will just stra

There would be nothing more disruptive than the sudden discovery of aliens. Perhaps that's why a small contingent of Silicon Valley is so interested in UFOs—and wants to know who's piloting them.

MJ Banias is the author of The UFO People: A Curious Culture. With the Navy's recent revelation that its pilots have been regularly spotting unidentified flying objects, some of those in the UFO community who were once thought crazy now have some concrete evidence to point to. And the regular spate of mainstream news stories about UFO sightings has inspired a new generation of UFO hunters and researchers. I'm regularly asked why I, a 32-year-old man with a good job and a young family spent s

The author with one of her exes. It's 3AM and you can't sleep. Your mind wanders through the many horrors you've inflicted upon yourself with your own body and mouth: that time you misread a fist-bump scenario and shook the other person's knuckles rather than pounding them. The time you tried to thank a school crush for holding the door open for you, but instead let out a sort of alarming guttural scream? Every single time you've cracked your back at work and looked up to see Nice Susan wincing

Liliana Merizalde’s circuitous journey to photography involved four degrees in three different cities. Her initial ambition was to go into filmmaking, but she took a detour into photography and stayed. “I’d taken photos since I was 17,” she tells Broadly, “but I would never have called myself a photographer.” She moved from Bogotá, a city alive with what she describes as “our typical Latin American chaos,” to Madrid, then Barcelona, pursuing a degree in each city before returning to her native

Nowhere is safe from man-made garbage. At 8,848 meters tall, Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak has become the world’s highest garbage dump.

On Wednesday, Myanmar police arrested an American and two Myanmar citizens after photos on Facebook tipped them off to a huge weed farm near Mandalay.

Over the past 30 years, droughts have affected over 66 million people in the Southeast Asian region and according to recent reports, it's only going to get much worse from here.

Today at 5PM, Extinction Rebellion are calling their big London shutdown to a close. For the past week-and-a-bit, the radical climate change protesters have been camped out throughout the city, shutting down Oxford Circus, Waterloo Bridge, Parliament Square and Marble Arch with their huge pink boat, their trucks, their hay bales and their bikes, to the ire of anyone with a Spectator subscription. But for now, that's all coming to a close. In a statement, the group said: "We will leave the physi

Forget Phuket, screw Pattaya. In a bid to lure people to travel to its lesser-known cities, the Thai government is paying people to wander within the country.

The year of the pig isn’t going well for the world's pork industry. Experts predict that China, the world's biggest pork exporter, will lose up to 200 million pigs this year from African swine fever.

Large voter turnouts and disorganization left thousands of Indonesians in Sydney and Hong Kong unable to cast their vote after standing in line for hours.

In VICE Votes, VICE asks the Indonesian youth what kind of person they'd like to see lead the country. Role: Transcriber and Translator (Part of a 4 person team) Date of broadcast: April 14, 2015

In a landmark ruling, a South Korean court has ordered lawmakers to revise the ban by the end of 2020.

The Airbnb listings around Byron Bay have enticing titles like, “Hidden Tropical Sanctuary” or, “River Sea Studio Apartment” or simply, “The Surf Shack”. Byron has been a holiday town for decades but the debate about Airbnb is a divisive one in the area.

It’s Tuesday afternoon and I’m in Melbourne with a guy named Louie Veleski who is approaching strangers on the street and asking them to complete a “memory quiz.” Most give him a strange look and say they’ll pass, but a surprising number agree, even though Louie offers only the barest explanation of what a memory quiz is, or why he’s offering them.

Elena Anosova spent her teenage years in a Russian boarding school and found it a formative experience. "It was a sheltered institution with its own hierarchy and rules," she says of the memory. A universe of its own, with no private space or security and with its own social norms. And it was growing up in this environment that made Elena interested in closed all-female microcosms, which is how she arrived at female prison colonies. Russia has a long history of using both female and male prison

For thousands of years, cultures from all over the globe have embraced nature's natural healing power

"We broke up when she was about to graduate high school. She was going to get married to someone else."

Prominent critic of Rodrigo Duterte's regime, Maria Ressa, has been released on bail after being detained for the second time this year, in what seems to be an attempt to further intimidate critics and journalists.

Image of Craig supplied. Digital image of space junk courtesy of Miguel-Soares via wikimedia Since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit in 1957, humanity has been slowly clogging our exosphere with junk. From decommissioned satellites, to fragments of destroyed rocket boosters, everything that gets discarded in orbit either falls to earth or just stays in orbit—which is why Earth is now circled by some 900,000 individual pieces of garbage. For any government or private company trying to

The law is set to take effect next week.

Steven Soderbergh’s 20-year-old crime drama is a masterful bit of vengeance cinema, especially when compared to other entries in the genre, like 'Taken.'

The business of babies is a lucrative one, especially in India, where legalised commercial surrogacy has made the country famous as a "fertility tourism" hotspot.

Women Will Be the Ones to Save America from Trump Thanks to decades of feminist groundwork, women across the country are poised not just to elect the country's first female president, but to reject misogynistic policies that have denied them benefits.

University students everywhere miss class all the time, but when hundreds of them decide to stop showing up entirely, it isn't just a case of students playing hooky.