Some other countries, on the other hand, don’t celebrate with cake. Instead, they have certain special birthday recipes they prepare. But it turns out the choice of food isn’t the only thing that differentiates birthday traditions around the world. Here are a few that you might find shocking. 1) Countrywide birthday in Vietnam In Vietnam, the actual day of a person’s birthday is not celebrated. Instead, everyone celebrates their birthday on New year’s day, a day which they mostly refer to as tet.
April 29, 2015 5:33 AM EDT
Ever wondered what it’s like to jump off one of the world’s tallest buildings?
A team of athletes decided to to just that, hurling themselves off the world’s second highest residential structure, the Princess Tower in Dubai, during a two week extreme Dream Jump event.
Luckily for us, these adrenaline junkies filmed themselves while tumbling off the 400-meter-high platform — free falling or zip-lining — in a variety of head-shaking stunts before parachuting safely to the ground.
October 21, 2016 1:03 PM EDT
Tensions were high the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner on Thursday evening after Donald Trump took the microphone and went “a little too far,” a foundation family member said.
The Republican presidential nominee was repeatedly booed at the Catholic fundraiser, including when he fired shots at Hillary Clinton over information released by WikiLeaks. Trump said Clinton “is tonight in public pretending not to hate Catholics,” referring to a batch of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s account that offered some critique of Catholic conservatives.
38-yr-old Mraz married Carano in the presence of 50 close friends and family at the Historic Polegreen Church in Mraz's hometown, Mechanicsville, Virginia, E! online reports. The newlywed musician tweeted a beautiful photo of his bride standing in the church clutching a bouquet of flowers. ADVERTISEMENT
"Today I was made the luckiest man in the world," Mraz captioned the photo. Mraz who couldn't contain his excitement also changed his status on Twitter and Instagram from "
August 12, 2014 1:21 PM EDT
Apple, the latest tech company to reveal its workforce demographics, said Tuesday that its U.S. staff is 55% white, 15% Asian, 11% Hispanic and 7% black. Two percent of workers are multiracial, and another 9% did not declare their race.
In regards to gender, Apple’s global workforce is 70% male and 30% female. Within tech-related jobs specifically, the disparity is 80% male and 20% female.