A Mississippi gun shop owner and his 17-year-old son were killed Saturday in a shootout in their store with two customers — also a father and son — apparently after an argument over a service charge. According to Pearl River County Sheriff David Allison, a gun owner and his son went to the shop to retrieve a weapon around 3:15 …

A WOMAN discovered a birthmark was cancerous a year after it EXPLODED while she was in labour. Mum-of-five Sam Davies, 31, lived with an unsightly blemish on her forehead for her whole life.

Selena Gomez sang “Hands To Myself” on this week’s “SNL.” The song is the third single off her new album Revival. For Gomez’s first performance, she sang a medley of “Good For You” and “Same Old Love.” See the video below of Gomez’s performance of “Hands To Myself” on “Saturday Night Live.” I doubted for a minute she would actually …

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has approved a series of “substantive changes” to its rules and organizational structure in an effort to boost the diversity of its membership as the group faces mounting criticism over a lack of minority actors among this year’s Academy Award nominees. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture …

Marvin Jacob Lee, a man whose vehicle went off a North Carolina road during Friday’s winter storm has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing someone who had stopped to help him, deputies said. WBTV reported that Marvin Jacob Lee, 27, of Claremont, has been charged with murder in connection to the death of Jefferson Heavner.

A video capturing a giant panda playing in the snow amid a massive blizzard hitting the East Coast quickly went viral on Saturday morning. Tian Tian was captured on camera rolling in the deep snow Saturday morning and loving life, perhaps celebrating the lack of human gawkers shut out by the storm.

Twin Maggies deckhand James Joseph Landry is appealing his 14-year sentence for manslaughter. Defence lawyer Roger Burrill argued today in the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal that a 10-year sentence would be more appropriate for Joseph James Landry.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered the amazingly well-preserved remains of a Bronze Age village at a quarry site in eastern England’s Peterborough. “This is a world full of swords and spears,” said site director, Mark Knight. “It is not entirely a friendly place.” Archaeologists have revealed exceptionally well-preserved Bronze Age dwellings during an excavation at Must Farm …

Corporation announced Skype’s latest update in a blog post on Thursday. The update has ability to hide user’s IP address. The company considers it an attempt to prevent users from obtaining IP address from Skype ID that might cause harm. The Skype client has long leaked IP address information, allowing other users on the network to determine which IP address …

Canadians are still buying new cars and vegetables even as they become more expensive, supporting the central bank’s view the economy will recover from a commodity crash without further interest-rate cuts. The consumer price index rose 1.6 per cent in December from a year ago following the rate of 1.4 per cent the prior month, Statistics Canada said Friday from …

Chess has been ruled as forbidden in Islam by a top scholar in Saudi Arabia who claimed the game caused “hatred” between players. Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh declared chess is forbidden in Islam when he was asked about the game on a television show.