A special court in Senegal is due to deliver its verdict on Monday in the war crimes trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, bringing a long-awaited reckoning to victims and their families. Human rights groups accuse the 72-year-old of being responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people during his rule from 1982 to 1990. Prosecutors in the court case …

In a 2012 suit brought against the Big Three – Rogers, Telus, and Bell – for premium texting charges, Bell finally settled with the Competition Bureau for $11.82 million dollars. Bell also agreed to donate approximately $800,000 to public interest advocacy groups. Under the terms of the agreement, Bell must: Issue up to $11.82 million in rebates to current and …

Jennifer Esposito is reportedly planning to skip town two months after her gluten-free bakery Jennifer’s Way was hit with a $43 million lawsuit. The New York Post’s Page Six column reports that the former “Blue Bloods” star left New York to spend time in Denmark after being sued by a group of investors — including her own husband, Louis Dowler …

The market for all-electric taxis in Europe increased by 66 per cent last year and in the UK Nissan products proved to be the biggest seller. As Nissan states: “The UK was Nissan’s biggest market for worldwide electric taxi sales in the previous financial year, with 78 of the company’s zero-emission models (LEAF and e-NV200) delivered to taxi firms around …

Video footage posted on Twitter showing a subway train crossing the Bloor Viaduct with a pair of its doors gaping open has prompted an investigation by the TTC. Around 6:00pm, a train leaving Castlefrank station heading east to Broadview was unable to close the doors on one of it’s cars as it traveled across the Bloor Viaduct.

The “Fat Leonard” Navy bribery scandal continued to grow Friday, with charges being filed in Virginia and San Diego against three current and former officers accused of divulging inside information about Navy operations and arranging special diplomatic clearances in exchange for gifts, entertainment and prostitutes. Retired Navy Captain Michael Brooks, 57, Commander Bobby Pitts, 47, and Lieutenant Commander Gentry Debord, …

An Alabama woman was attacked and killed by fire ants a day after her own mother’s death. Kalyn Rolan was in a small town north of Selma making funeral arrangements for her mother, who had died the day before. Rolan was talking on the phone when the fire ants started attacking her from the hay bale she was standing on. …

Rochon Genova LLP and Will Davidson LLP have commenced a class action against Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”) over allegations that its Baby Powder product causes ovarian cancer. A woman was recently awarded $55 million after being diagnosed with cancer in 2011. She claimed to have used talc-based feminine hygiene products for the better part of 40 years. A separate jury …

Nature indeed has a funny way of balancing the ecosystem. Did you know that the animal with the longest sperm is also among the animals with the shortest lifespan? Meet the tiny fruit fly. Fruit fly (Drosophila bifurca) may just be few millimeters in size, but produces gargantuan sperm. According to Science Daily, fruit flies produce almost six centimeters or …

Netflix announced on Thursday that The Little Prince will premiere theatrically and on Netflix on August 5. Based on the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 novel and adapted for the screen by “The Boxtrolls” writer Irena Brignull, the story follows a little girl whose mother has her whole life planned out for her, every minute, hour and day and moment of …

A scientific study published Wednesday concluded that global warming on other planets has made billions of planets unable to host life, making it a lot harder to find aliens. According to Space, a new study indicates several exoplanets similar to Earth that orbit red dwarf stars in the “Goldilocks Zone,” aka the right distance away to potentially allow for liquid …