Today in viral videos: a romantic "classic" remixed, love and cocaine combined, and goats. Lots of goats.
Valentine's Day this year is tinged with sadness: the date also marks the two month anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, but these virtual Valentines can be shared on social media.
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The good news is, there's a sentiment for everyone. The bad news is, you might end up with the sentiment you don't want. Read on, lovelorn and love-satisfied friends, for the best and worst and most thought-provoking sentiments of Valentine's Day.
Paralympic and Olympic track athlete Oscar Pistorius has been charged with a murder after he allegedly shot and killed his 30-year-old model girlfriend Thursday morning.
Timing is everything in the disease business, which is probably why the United States Centers for Disease Control waited until Valentine's Day Eve to announce that the United States is home to 110 million sexually transmitted diseases.
Flowers delivered to offices, couples crowding up restaurants, hand-holding everywhere. It's going to be a nightmare. So how can you survive the year's most heartbreaking day? Here are some suggestions.
Chris Brown uncorks a truly awful pick-up line, Larry King and CNN are kaput after 27 years, and Oprah is considering a big-screen return.
Yesterday was anything but rosy for the customer service departments at America's biggest flower delivery outfits, as they spent most of the day fielding very angry (and very public) complaints from dissatisfied consumers.
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After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
In a low-point for American democracy, the easily-offended citizens of this nation have directed their wrath at Google's painfully-innocent Valentine's Day doodle.
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The Star newspaper of Malaysias reports that five couples were arrested on Valentine's Day this year in what was dubbed the "Petaling District Level 6th Anti-Vice Campaign." We apologize for the error and any confusion.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
We're deep in the countdown to the most dreaded day of the year: Valentine's Day. Here are some suggestions for what to do on the big day. (Or not.)
For the second year in a row the Bronx Zoo is offering a quirky, city-appropriate homage to love for Valentine's Day.
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