A man walked into an Apple store and began swinging a Samurai sword. The man brandished the weapon on a staircase after entering the shop in Manhattan, New York, on Friday at about 4pm local time. He was reportedly shouting and waving the sword above his head as he descended a spiral-staircase into the store, before being tackled by two …

Poor weather is hampering efforts to reach the site of the Fox Glacier helicopter crash that killed a pilot and six tourists. There were six overseas passengers in addition to the pilot on board the helicopter, which was operated by the Alpine Adventures tour company, the newspaper said.

Scientists at the University of Alberta have helped make a scientific breakthrough regarding the early origins of Earth’s atmosphere. Together with earth scientists from the University of Waterloo, Arizona State University, University of California Riverside, and Georgia Institute of Technology, U of A scientists have found evidence that Earth’s transition to a permanently oxygenated atmosphere was riddled with bumps along …

On an island in the Arctic Sea, paleontologists found the remains of an ancient tropical forest estimated to be 385 million years old. The fossil forests, with tree stumps preserved in place, were found in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago situated in the Arctic Ocean. They were identified and described by Dr Chris Berry of the School of Earth and Ocean …

The woman thought to have blown herself up alongside the organiser of the Paris terror attacks was not a suicide bomber, it has emerged. For two days, it had appeared that Hasna Aït Boulahcen, 26, whose passport was found in the apartment, had detonated a suicide belt as police closed in. But investigators had been cautious as they sifted through …

Armand Foisy of Lillooet, B.C., posted the video of his mom on Wednesday. It has since been viewed nearly 180,000 times. Foisy posted a video to Facebook sweet enough to melt your heart earlier this week. It shows his 101-year-old mother Albina playing in the snow near Lillooet.

A New photo being circulated by French police suggests that on-the-run Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam is trying to disguise himself in a wig and glasses. The 26-year-old has become the most wanted man in Europe following the death of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged “mastermind” of the atrocity.

Nasa’s New Horizons probe has captured some stunning images of how the day progresses on Pluto and its largest moon Charon. The imagery was captured over the course of a full Plutonian day, which is 6.4 Earth days long. New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager and the Ralph / Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera were trained on the icy worlds as …

A 37-year-old addiction treatment centre director has been charged in connection with a sexual assault investigation in which police say there may be more victims. Police said a female client was assaulted in September while seeking treatment at The Academy Addiction Treatment Centre.

A mountain lion who lived in chains for 20 years with a traveling circus was finally freed by wildlife officials. Mufasa the mountain lion lived for 20 years chained in the back of a pick up truck amongst rusting circus equipment. Despite Peru’s ban on wild animals in circuses, there seemed little hope for Mufasa as the circus went undetected, …

Researchers have created a kind of cyborg flower: living roses with tiny electronic circuits threaded through their vascular systems. Using semi-conductive polymers, both analog and digital electronic circuits can be created inside living flowers, bushes and trees, as researchers at Linköping University Laboratory for Organic Electronics have shown. The results are being published in Science Advances.