A South African teen may have discovered a piece of the missing MH370 plane while strolling at a beach in Mozambique. Liam Lotter said he found the piece during a family vacation in the east African nation in December. The teen was strolling along a beach in southern Mozambique on December 30 when he saw the 3.3-foot-long and a little …

Two weeks in and we’ve had our second Big Brother Canada, with Sharry walking out of the door after a major 11-1 vote to see her evicted. “In the moment I was shocked, but at the same time I was flattered that the whole house was afraid of my game,” said Sharry Ash. “It was definitely tricky [being up against …

A new method, which alters a person’s immune system, could offer a breakthrough in transplant surgery allowing patients to receive kidneys from incompatible donors, experts have revealed. Patients who received such kidneys were more likely to be alive eight years later than those who remained on dialysis or those who waited for a deceased donor, according to research published in …

The co-founder of Skype, Janus Friis, as well as former Skype engineers, have created a new ultra secure messaging app called Wire that promises end-to-end encryption for all conversations, including video calls. The Wire application was launched for desktop, iOS and Android in late 2014 and is managed by a Switzerland-based team of engineers with distinguished backgrounds in major firms …

Researchers studying the Twelve Apostles in Victoria have discovered five previously unknown limestone stacks underwater. Dubbed the Drowned Apostles, the surprise find means there has in fact been 17 of the columns in the ocean off the Great Ocean Road. The never-before-seen sea stacks, located 6km offshore from the Great Ocean Road and 50m beneath the water’s surface, were revealed …

A woman nearly crashed into a Richmond RCMP cruiser earlier this week. When she was pulled over, officers found that she’d been busted for distracted driving a dozen times before. Mounties in that city tweeted a photo of the driver’s past infractions.

Israel Kristal lived through the tumult of two world wars, lost his family in the Holocaust and escaped death in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He then built a new life in Israel. On Friday, at the age of 112 years and 178 days, he was declared the oldest man in the world. “I don’t know the secret for long life,” …

Remember Comet Siding Spring? In October 2014, the comet soared past Mars at about 87,000 miles away. Space agencies with orbiters around the planet reoriented them to protect against the flyby. Data collected by the MAVEN probe’s magnetometer suggest the flyby momentarily threw the Martian magnetosphere into chaos.

Ariana Grande is out to prove that she’s a “Dangerous Woman,” and ahead of her new album, she’s doing that with a sultry, slow-burning new single. “Dangerous Woman,” the stylish new Grande track, was released on Thursday night (Mar. 10) and previews the pop star’s follow-up to 2014’s My Everything, due out in May.

The Louisiana black bear, which inspired the original teddy bear in the early 1900s, was taken off the Endangered Species List Thursday after 24 years of conservation efforts, US officials said. According to Richard Rummel, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks acting Black Bear Program leader, the number of Louisiana black bears in Mississippi is a bit of …

A newly discovered 250-million-year-old fossil reptile from Brazil gives an “extraordinary” insight into life just before the dinosaurs appeared. Experts from the University of Birmingham and the Universidade Federal do Pampa (Unipampa) have discovered a new fossilized reptile species that would have lived approximately 250 million years ago, shortly after a mass extinction event that wiped out 90 percent of …