Palau
Ranked as Number OneIt is 500 miles (800km) east of the Philippines and 2000 miles (3200km) south of Tokyo. Manta rays and eagle rays are attracted to these plankton-fill waters.

The whole mess started on a regular workday—computer, phone, cubicle, all that. I had a new employee, “Tiff,” who I had to start training that morning. “Whoopee!” I thought sarcastically, leaning back my chair. Then …

According to the Information Times, students at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China have an assignment with a difference: they must plan to rob a bank with a team of six under seven minutes.
Through …

As a child, you might have used magnifying lenses to focus sun’s rays onto anything you wanted to burn (which is hopefully not something like your 5th grade teacher’s wig). Even if you haven’t, you’d …

After 30 years of marriage, cynics might say most husbands and wives would have seen quite enough of each other, thank you very much.

But not in the case of one Saudi Arabian man who managed …

A June 9 launch date for the iPhone 2? No surprises there, and now it looks like inside sources are confirming the June 9 date, which is also when Steve Jobs’ keynote at Apple’s Worldwide …

* Pants with pleats get cuffs; pants without, do not.
* Avoid large faced watches if you have thin wrists.
* Sunglasses may only be worn indoors after 1 a.m.
* Carry around those small bottles of hand …

Microsoft Corp. is once again trying to team up with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc., although at this point the renewed talks haven’t escalated to another attempt to take …

President Bush has never been known for his eloquence, but his comment earlier this month that India’s growing middle class was demanding “better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes …

However good you think you are at job interviews, it doesn’t hurt to go over the basics. They could be standing between you and success, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden UK Global Executive Search.

Their darkest dealings often go unreported and unnoticed. But from Nairobi to São Paulo, many urban gangs are becoming more sophisticated, more brutal, and more powerful than ever.
The Mungiki, Kenya
Membership: as many as 100,000 men …