George Clayton Johnson, who wrote the script for the first Star Trek episode to air and co-wrote Logan’s Run, died Tuesday (Dec 22) in the Los Angeles area following a battle with cancer. He was 86. Johnson’s son Paul posted this on Facebook: My Father, George Clayton Johnson, passed away this Christmas day at 12:46 p.s.t. He was more than …

The NHS Choir has beaten Canadian pop star Justin Bieber to secure the UK’s official Christmas number one for 2015. The Lewisham and Greenwich choir’s charity single, A Bridge Over You, has claimed the top spot in the closest chart battle since 2009 when Rage Against The Machine beat X Factor star Joe McElderry.

NASA has released grainy radar images of an christmas eve asteroid flying close to earth. Despite dire warnings circulating on social media, NASA says a 3,600-foot-long asteroid passing by Earth on Christmas Eve will not strike the planet – and therefore will not snuff out all life on Earth.

Carson Daly married his longtime girlfriend Siri Pinter on Wednesday. The Voice US presenter and Siri have been together for 10 years and finally tied the knot. According to People, the ceremony was an intimate affair held in front of close family.

Turkish President Erdogan used his celebrated rhetorical skills to save a life on Friday, preventing a man from jumping off Istanbul’s Bosphorus Bridge. Extraordinary television footage obtained Anadolu Agency shows Mr Erdogan’s motorcade stopping on Istanbul’s Bosporus Bridge after spotting a man standing over the side of the railing. He was reportedly planning to jump, according to Turkish officials.

California health officials warned people Wednesday to take care when handling food after a marked increase in cases of norovirus, which they also subtly referred to as “winter vomiting disease.” The CDPH has confirmed 32 outbreaks of norovirus in California since Oct. 1, which the department suspects has likely resulted in hundreds of reported sicknesses in the state. These outbreaks …

When Claudia Huber of Whitehorse, Yukon, was being mauled by a grizzly bear last year, her husband fired his rifle to save her. Unfortunately, it was one of his bullets that killer her, a coroner has reported. Matthias Liniger fired several rounds at the bear, as it dragged Claudia Huber several meters into the woods near their home in Johnson’s …

Michael Korchak was admittedly a little nervous flying home to Toronto from Halifax for the holidays last week. He’d hit a snag on his trip home to Burlington last Thursday for Christmas and a group of Air Canada employees was gathering around him at its busy departure gate at the Halifax airport. The 25-year-old Canadian Armed Forces member, who’s in …

Border services officers in the port of Montréal seized over 1,300 kg of suspected hashish on December 10, 2015. The container also had wooden handcrafted furniture in it.

An armed man was shot and killed by an off-duty officer at Northlake Mall on Christmas Eve, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. The incident happened about 2 p.m. Thursday. The shooting was not a random act but rather the result of a feud among people who knew each other, Chief Kerr Putney of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said. There was no …

Dalene Bowden, An Idaho cafeteria worker is fighting to get her job back after she was fired just days before Christmas for giving a hungry 12-year-old girl a free meal. Dalene Bowden has now received a registered letter from the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District informing her that she has been fired. The brief, one-page letter was signed by District 25 Director …