Todd Palin, husband of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, suffered eight fractured ribs in a snowmachine accident Sunday night. Jim Palin told The Associated Press in a phone interview that his son, husband to former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, also had injuries to his collarbone and lungs, but he didn’t know the extent of those injuries. He said Todd Palin …

Mason Woods, 23, A Winnipeg man is in critical condition after complications from a tooth removal, his mother said. Angela Steele said her son Woods had a wisdom tooth extracted on Feb. 27. He was sent home with Tylenol 3s adding that several days later he went back to the oral surgeon because of the pain.

The all-new Acura NSX is finally here and, to everyone but the crustiest of critics, this hybrid supercar will have been deemed well worth the wait. It’s been 25 years since the original NSX roared off into the sunset; from the moment this sad realization took hold, enthusiasts have been pestering the luxury division of Honda to restore the natural …

Life on Mars? ExoMars mission to study methane mystery may provide answer. The European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos sent two robots to Mars, successfully kicking off the first of its two-part ExoMars mission. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli, a lander, were carried by a Russian rocket that blasted from Kazakhstan early this morning.

Room won big at the Canadian Screen Awards – winning nine gongs at the film event. The movie, which was a co-production between the Irish and Canadian film boards, also picked up the award for Best Motion Picture, Best Director for Lenny Abrahamson and Best Adapted Screenplay for Emma Donoghue.

Bumblebees exposed to even low levels of pesticides have trouble acquiring the pollination skills necessary to retrieve nectar from some wildflowers — especially those with complex shapes. Scientists found bumblebees exposed to to neonicotinoid insecticide took longer to collect pollen and sought pollen from different flowers than control bees. The study, published March 14 in Functional Ecology, is the first …

Hanan al-Hroub, A teacher from the West Bank has been awarded a prize worth $1 million by an influential nonprofit. The former refugee was honored for her important contribution to the teaching profession. Hanan al-Hroub, from Samiha Khalil High School, Al-Bireh, Palestine, grew up in Bethlehem refugee camp where she was regularly exposed to acts of violence. She went into …

Skull found in Uzbekistan belonging to Timurlengia euotica, a horse-sized forerunner of Tyrannosaurus rex, reveals advanced brain and hearing ability that may have helped it become ‘king of the Cretaceous’ over larger rivals. Researchers have long known from the fossil record that the family of dinosaurs at the center of the study–tyrannosaurs–transitioned from small-bodied species to fearsome giants like the …

With Prince George RCMP in hot pursuit, an accused thief fled the scene of her alleged crime Sunday on an ice floe. RCMP Corporal Craig Douglass says the 25 year old woman floated two kilometres down the frigid Nechako River atop the piece of ice before a police dog tracked her down. Police said the homeowner had returned to find …

Researchers at the Universidad de Chile have experimented with the molecular development of chicken embryos to produce chickens with longer fibula, a trait which was present in their ancestors, the dinosaurs. Brazilian researcher Joâo Botelho, working at the lab of Alexander Vargas (University of Chile) studied the mechanisms that underlie this transformation. In normal bone development, the shaft matures and …

Fire Emblem Fates’ opening month performance has set a new standard for the series and Nintendo as a whole, clocking in as the ninth highest selling game for the month of February, according to NPD reports. The Big N got specific with the game’s numbers, though, touting that Fates sold close to 400,000 copies when looking at both physical and …