SAN FRANCISCO – A police chase ended in a fiery collision killing three people in San Francisco Saturday night, according to CHP official Vu Williams. A California Highway Patrol officer started to pursue a white Chevrolet sedan that later slammed into a taxicab at the intersection of Brannan and 9th streets just before 9:30 p.m. The CHP officer spotted the …

A new study that compared the chemical make-up of the Earth to that of the Moon concluded that our planet may be the result of a head-on collision between two planetary bodies: a proto-Earth and another planet called Theia. The concept isn’t new; scientists already believed that the crash was also responsible for the formation of the moon. However, UCLA …

Planting trees is perhaps the best and most widely-known mitigative measure when it comes to climate change. However, a new study published Friday in the journal Science posits that planting the wrong kind of trees may, in practice, stoke global warming. Using historical data about trees planted in Europe since 1750, a team of French researchers created a computer modeling …

Blake Edward Fitzgerald and his girlfriend Brittany Nicole Harper were involved in a shootout in the early hours Friday morning after leading police on a car chase. Blake and Brittany apparently robbed a shoe store on Friday night and were spotted by witnesses, which sparked the pursuit. The hunt came to an end after the couple drove to a residential …

Two people are dead after overnight shootings in Brampton and Mississauga. Peel police do not believe the two shootings are connected. Officers were called to the scene at Airport and Derry roads in Mississauga around 1 a.m. Sunday where they found a man with bullet wounds outside Habibi Lounge.

Underwater sounds linked to human activity could alter the behaviour of seabed creatures that play a vital role in marine ecosystems, according to new research from the University of Southampton. The study, reported in the journal Scientific Reports published by Nature, found that exposure to sounds that resemble shipping traffic and offshore construction activities results in behavioural responses in certain …

While it’s well known that the ancient Greeks were responsible for inventing one of the first computational devices, the Antikythera mechanism, the Internet is abuzz with claims that one statue dating back to 100 BC depicts an individual holding a modern-style laptop. The grave marker is intricate and features a woman opening what could be a shallow chest, according to …

Benedict Cumberbatch, Emma Watson are adding a new role to their resumes. “The Imitation Game” actor and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” actress are among the 11 non-academics agreeing to the role of visiting fellows at University of Oxford.

Six people were found dead Thursday afternoon in a home in the Gage Park neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side. A relative said they were members of the same family, and two children are among the dead. The victims—two men, two women and two boys ages 10 and 13, three generations of the same family—were found slain Thursday afternoon on the …

Diamond Princess, 150 passengers and crew sick with gastro on board cruise ship. The Diamond Princess arrived at the Overseas Passenger Terminal at 7am, with several of those on board believed to be battling norovirus gastroenteritis, which can cause severe diarrhoea and vomiting. Emdur spoke to his mum Faye who said staff on board the ship reacted well to the …

Woman Crashes Her Own Funeral After Husband Paid to Have Her Killed. Noela Rukundo was visiting her native country of Burundi in January 2015 for her stepmother’s funeral when she was kidnapped, the mother of eight recently told the BBC. The story is receiving worldwide attention after interview was posted online on Thursday. Rukundo’s husband called her while she was …