Over one in eight adults are now obese-a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey reported Friday. The finding is based on the study of BMI data from nearly 20 million people in 186 different countries, recorded between 1975 to 2014. Extrapolating obesity rates from their data, …

A team of archaeologists say they’ve made a potentially “seismic” discovery in Canada that could “rewrite the history of Vikings in the New World” — and they did it with the help of medieval sagas and the latest satellite technology. Images of what appear to be man-made objects deep in the ground taken by satellite indicate a Viking settlement in …

At least 10 people were injured, including one in critical condition, during the explosion caused by gas in the sixth district of Paris, the firefight commander told BFMTV on Friday. Pictures on social media showed thick clouds of black smoke billowing into the air after the incident in the city’s 6th arrondissement at around 12pm local time.

There have been millions of cars recalled in the past few years. Fiat-Chrysler and Volkswagen are just two names that come to mind. Now, you can add Ford to that list as it’s recalling 37,066 vehicles from the U.S. and 839 vehicles in Canada.

Mohawk the lion, one of Kenya’s most famous big cats, was fatally shot Wednesday by wildlife rangers. In a country that has invested millions in protecting its wildlife, Kenyans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Mohawk, a 13-year-old male, who got his name from the shape of his mane, was Kenya’s a tourist favourite at Nairobi National Park, …

Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens audition tape has just been released online. In a video set to feature on the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director JJ Abrams explains how Daisy Ridley came to snatch the part of Rey.

The FBI agreed to help an Arkansas prosecutor unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two teenagers accused of killing a couple, just days after the federal agency announced it had gained access to an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino gunman. The FBI agreed to a request from prosecuting attorney Cody Hiland in the case against 18-year-old Hunter Drexler …

An Italian nurse murdered 13 patients, Fausta Bonino has been arrested on suspicion of murdering patients in the intensive care ward where she had worked for decades. Police say 55-year-old Fausta Bonino killed the patients between 2014 and 2015 in the Tuscan town of Piombino.

If you want to know what makes you thin, then you can just try adding a new serving of pulses to your day. Take a mix of beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils, and you’ve won some of the battle against the bulge. Eating about 3/4 cup (130 grams) each day of these foods known as pulses led to a weight …

Doctors are “failing to help patients with gender dysphoria,” a leading British doctor has warned in the British Medical Journal. The need for hormone treatment has never been higher, but “as many as one in five GPs won’t prescribe for people with gender dysphoria, even after expert advice from an NHS clinic,” according to James Barrett the President of the …

Autism rates among US kids were unchanged between 2010 and 2012, but it remains too early to know whether a rise in diagnoses over the last decade has stabilized, according to new data from federal health officials. According to the report, about 1 in 68 children across the nation were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2012 — a figure …