“The Mermaid” surpassed last summer’s “Monster Hunt” as the biggest-grossing movie ever in China, where box-office revenue is surging almost 40 percent a year. “The Mermaid” broke a previous record of 2.44 billion yuan held by another domestic movie, “Monster Hunt,” to top the league table of Chinese box office, according to statistics from the State Administration of Press, Publication, …

Samsung has ventured into the connected car accessories market with the unveiling of its Connected Auto dongle at the MWC on 21 February. The dongle provides users with the ability to connect their cars to the internet. Samsung Connect Auto plugs directly into the OBD II port underneath the steering wheel. It uses real-time alerts to help users improve their …

Marlene Ricketts, the matriarch of the Ricketts family that owns the Chicago Cubs baseball team, contributed $3 million to the anti-Trump super-PAC “Our Principles PAC,” which is being run by former Mitt Romney adviser Katie Packer. Our Principles PAC has spent more than $4 million running attack ads against the GOP front-runner in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, which …

A man has been filmed wrangling a small shark from the ocean in Florida for a series of photographs, merely a week after the world was shocked following a similar incident involving a baby dolphin. A beach-goer in Florida has been filmed pulling a shark from the sea and pinning it down to pose for pictures.

Amy Adams has been lured to television and will star in Entertainment One’s series adaptation of Sharp Objects, the first novel by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn. Published in 2006, mystery novel “Sharp Objects” centers on reporter Camille Preaker (Adams), who returns home after a brief stay at a psych hospital. Now living at her tiny hometown, she covers the …

Michigan shootings suspect Jason Brian Dalton pictured for first time as police reveal slaughter was caught on CCTV. The shooting happened shortly before 10:30 Saturday night and was the last of three separate shootings. The suspect in the shootings, 45-year-old Jason Dalton, has been taken into custody. The man accused in the deadly Michigan shooting was an Uber driver and …

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is recalling cantaloupes sold under two brand names because of the possibility of salmonella contamination. According to Health Canada, Freshpoint Vancouver Ltd. is recalling Del Monte and Sysco Imperial Fresh brand cantaloupes. The fruit was sold in 12 packs, three packs, and individually in B.C., Alberta, and Manitoba.

Next time you pass a roadside farm, don’t hold your nose. The source of that smell could fuel your car someday. Scientists have found out how to harness the power of fungi from the guts of horses, goats and sheep to break down biomass that can be used as fuel. Scientists report in the journal Science on February 18 that …

Police in San Francisco are hunting for an officer’s gun after the bungling cop lost it by leaving it on top of his car before driving off. At 9:27 a.m. a San Francisco police officer at the Ingleside District Station took a call from the agent who said he lost his pistol at 6 a.m.

Johns Hopkins surgeons have chosen a soldier to receive the first US penis transplant. The unidentified man will undergo the operation once the hospital finds a suitable penis from a deceased organ donor.

Sound of deep-water animal migration revealed. Small deep-water marine animals communicate through sound indecipherable to the human ear while traveling up and down from the depths of ocean to feed and protect themselves, a new study has found.