At least 43 people, most of them pensioners on a hiking trip, have been killed after the bus they were travelling in collided with a truck. Motorists desperately tried to smash windows of the burning bus to free passengers near Bordeaux, south-western France.

In an effort to keep Manitobans healthy and reduce the number of new cancer cases, the province’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Immunization Program will be expanded starting next year to include both males and females. Health Minister Sharon Blady said the province’s vaccine program will be expanded next year to include Grade 6 and Grade 9 boys as part of Manitoba’s …

A San Jose seafood restaurant in California is currently in hot water after customers have reportedly been sick due to food poisoning linked to Shigella bacteria. The California health officials is currently doing an investigation of the outbreak as they try to get to the bottom of the real source of the contamination. Individuals being reporting symptoms including fever, abdominal …

THE Discipline Committee Panel of the College of Dental Surgeons of BC hearing the Dr. Bobby Rishiraj case has suspended him from practice for three months, effective October 21, and fined him $50,000. The penalty was announced on Thursday after a hearing was held into Rishiraj’s actions that left one of his patients, Hamu Zindoga, with a severe brain injury.

A glimpse of Natalie Portman as badass housewife in “Jane Got a Gun” is given in the Western flick’s first trailer. Natalie Portman plays Jane Hammond, a frontierwoman who takes it upon herself to protect her outlaw husband, Bill Hammond (Noah Emmerich), from the Bishop Boys, a gang that’s out for his blood.

Antibiotics are great for nipping that nasty infection in the bud. However, new research published this week in the International Journal of Obesity suggests that the bacteria-battling medicines may also influence childhood weight gain. This research, which was published online yesterday in the International Journal of Obesity, is actually the biggest and longest study that looks how antibiotic exposure influences …

Following a Mediterranean diet improves the health of the brain, according to new research. The study, conducted by researchers at Columbia University in New York, provides further evidence of the benefits of a Mediterranean diet for people with diabetes. A study of 674 people with an average age of 80 showed that those following a Mediterranean-like diet had larger brains. …

Cory Wells, a founding member of the popular 1970s band Three Dog Night and lead singer on such hits as “Never Been to Spain” and “Mama Told Me (Not to Come),” has died at age 74. Cory Wells passed away in Dunkirk, New York on Tuesday, a few weeks after experiencing acute back pain, bandmate Danny Hutton said. Hutton paid …

Kate Winslet has always been outspoken about her desire not to be retouched for magazines. Now, she’s putting it into writing. According to E! News, Winslet has made sure her L’Oréal contract states that there will be zero retouching done to her upcoming Lancôme ads. That’s right — no slimming of the face, no removing wrinkles or blemishes, no nothing.

The largest astronomical image ever made is so big we can’t even show it here. Astronomers have created the largest astronomy photo ever created – a monstrous, eye-melting image of our own Milky Way, with 46 billion pixels.

Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Vancouver Aquarium are using drone technology to monitor the health of endangered killer whales as the onset of a warmer climate pattern may threaten their food sources. The hexacopter weighs about 4.5 pounds and has a 30 inch wingspan. It carries a special camera system and is extremely quiet, allowing …