Some awesome people in South Korea have built the world's tallest LEGO structure. To celebrate LEGO's 80th birthday, 4000 (!) children built a tower over three days that reached a height of 105 feet. The Prince of Denmark (no, put the final part on top. And moms everywhere wondered who is going to clean the mess up when the tower gets dismantled ...

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Amnesty International has released new figures documenting the number of federal executions worldwide in 2011 after its annual review of worldwide trends. Shockingly, the United States remains near the top of the global list of nations carrying out executions—ranked fifth—with more executions than North Korea, Afghanistan and Somalia combined...

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After a month of heavy rain, a deluge last week sent landslides cascading into Seoul, South Korea, killing at least 59 people. Landslides around the country also disturbed landmines near one army base, raising fears that the landslides could contain unstable explosives ...

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North Korea has fired artillery shells at a South Korean island, and South Korean forces have struck back. So far, two South Korean Marines are the only reported dead. The two countries have technically been at war since 1950 ...

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