A forensic expert has recreated the face of Jesus Christ using state-of-the art science. Depictions of Christ predominantly show a white, clean shaven man with long, flowing blonde locks. But the reality may have been very different.

The Nova Scotia Health Authority says a leak on the third floor of the Victoria General hospital in Halifax has been located and repaired. The leak caused a “significant” flood at the hospital Monday morning, prompting all surgeries to be postponed. The leaking pipe was discovered at 5 a.m. Monday, behind a wall in the building’s third floor. Nothing was …

A study has found that short sleep, defined as less than seven hours a night, increases the consumption of sugary drinks, and could increase the risk of obesity. Scientists explored whether short sleep is linked to more time spent secondary eating or drinking, which is eating or drinking while primarily engaged in another activity, such as watching television.

Two Children Found Dead in Redding Storage Unit, Detectives Search Salinas Apartment. Autopsies were planned Wednesday for the 3-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy, whose names were not released. No charges have been filed in their deaths. The investigation also led to a starved and injured 9-year-old girl, who was taken to a hospital, the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office said.

On its way up Mount Sharp, NASA’s Curiosity rover is conducting the first ever study of sand dunes on a world other than Earth. The nuclear-powered space tank is currently at a spot named “Bagnold Dunes,” which can be found on the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp inside the Gale Crater that’s been Curiosity’s home since it arrived on August …

The melting of glaciers caused by the world’s rising temperatures appears to be causing a slight slowing of the Earth’s rotation in another illustration of the far-reaching impact of global climate change, researchers said on Friday. Researchers are studying past changes in sea level in order to make accurate future predictions of this consequence of climate change, and they’re looking …

An Ontario woman is facing three charges of animal cruelty after allegedly throwing three kittens out of a car window. Police received reports of the incident on the afternoon of Saturday, December 12th after two kittens were located on the side of a road just outside Clinton, Ontario.

A Mississauga woman has been charged with first-degree murder after her two-year-old son was found dead on Monday. According to investigators, Russom Tesfamar Yordanos has been charged with first degree murder for the death of her 2-year-old son.

Toronto police are looking for a woman after a brutal and random stabbing at a downtown Shoppers Drug Mart. Emergency crews were called to the store, in the PATH system at 66 Wellington St. W., just before 3 p.m. on Friday. A woman had been stabbed, and remains in hospital with critical injuries.

The scope of practice regarding naloxone, a drug which can be used to reverse fentanyl overdoses, will be broadened in the province, under the ministerial orders issued by Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman. From January to September 2015, there were 213 deaths involving fentanyl in Alberta — in 2011, that number was only six. “We may have one person a …

A new $7 million XPRIZE challenge has been launched today which looks to boost development of technology for unmanned deep ocean exploration. “Our oceans cover two-thirds of our planet’s surface and are a crucial global source of food, energy, economic security, and even the air we breathe, yet 95 percent of the deep sea remains a mystery to us,” Peter …