In his first press conference since being named Prime-Minister-for-a-Week on Tuesday, PJ (Prabjote) Lakhanpal said that the economy will be the top priority for his mandate. As part of his five-day visit to the nation’s capital, Lakhanpal is residing in the famed Chateau Laurier, which donated a week’s stay in the Prime Minister’s Suite. He also spent part of Wednesday …

A man accused of stalking Gwyneth Paltrow for 17 years has walked free from court after a jury ruled he was innocent. The Hollywood actress said Dante Soiu sent her 66 letters between 2009 and 2015. This is the second case in which Soiu is accused of stalking the actress. In the first one, he was accused of sending lewd …

Two planes collided on a taxiway at Detroit Metro Airport on Tuesday morning. American Airlines Flight 1241, bound for Dallas, was traveling down the runway just after 6 a.m. when a wing hit the tail of a Southwest plane, Detroit Metro Airport spokesperson Erica Donerson said.

The number of missing or murdered indigenous women in Canada since 1980 may be as high as 4,000 – far more than previous estimates of 1,200, the federal government has said. Patricia Hajdu, the minister of the status of women, cited research from the Native Women’s Association of Canada pointing to a far higher total than previously thought. The new …

For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths. The exotic exoplanet, 55 Cancri e, is over eight times the mass of Earth and has previously been dubbed the ‘diamond planet’ because models based on its mass and radius have led some astronomers to speculate that its interior is …

Apple Inc opposed a court ruling on Tuesday that ordered it to help the FBI break into an iPhone recovered from a San Bernardino shooter, heightening a dispute between tech companies and law enforcement over the limits of encryption. Apple CEO Tim Cook’s response, posted on the company’s website, sets the stage for a legal fight between the federal government …

El Niño is continuing to break records after pushing the global average temperature last month to its highest ever level for January. Not only was January the hottest ever, the new temperature was the biggest increase over the previous record in more than a century of records, according to figures released by NASA. NASA’s climate records go back to 1880.

David Bowie’s filmmaker son Duncan Jones appears to have taken a swipe at Lady Gaga following her epic tribute performance to the rock icon at Monday’s Grammy Awards. Film director Duncan Jones was among those watching her song and dance performance in Los Angeles. On Twitter, he shared with his 277,000 followers a dictionary definition of the word “gaga”. He …

Taylor Swift grins after winning an armful of awards at the 2016 Grammys held at the Staples Center on Monday (February 15) in Los Angeles. The 26-year-old singer received a sweet congratulations from her 32-year-old boyfriend Calvin Harris the next day. Calvin posted a photo on Instagram of Taylor accepting her Album of the Year award, captioned, “Congratulations to my …

A popular group of heartburn drugs may be linked to dementia in seniors. People who regularly took proton-pump inhibitors, which includes drugs such as Nexium, Prilosec and Prevacid, were 44 percent more likely to develop dementia compared with people who didn’t, according to the study, which used survey data of more than 73,000 people 75 years or older.

Duck or rabbit? The animal you see in this 100-year-old optical illusion can reveal a lot about how your brain works and how creative you are – and now it’s taking the internet by storm. Some see a rabbit and others will see a duck – but are you able to see both alternatively? What you see (and how fast …