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How Fast Can the US Border Wall Be Scaled?

Each mile of border fence costs US taxpayers about $4 million to build and will cost another $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to repair and maintain. Are we getting our money's worth? Is the border fence an effective deterrent? To find out, two young women—both only about 5'5"—were asked if they could climb the wall.

Christmas With Julian Assange

Newsweek has an exclusive gallery of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's Christmas revelry as he awaits a British court's decision on whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face sexual-assault charges. Here's a few pics that prove even alleged bad-boy journos love Christmas.

Polar Bears Outsmart Spy Cams

The BBC sent a fleet of camo cameras to spy on the polar bears inhabiting the Norweigen archipelago of Svalbard. But while they were built to withstand temperatures as low as -40C, in the end most could not cope with the curiosity displayed by their subjects. (Via.)

25 Years of Christmas

Youtuber Spoonito says: "Every year, our dad would tape us coming down the stairs. This is a compilation of all the videos I could find. Relatives and pets grow up and disappear, and new extended family members appear in their place."

Scientists Create Singing Mouse

In a genetically engineered experiment, Japanese scientists at the University of Osaka have created a mouse that tweets like a bird. After crossbreeding genetically altered mice for some time, to see what would happen, they apparently got their first interesting result, by mistake.