NASA to Make Mystery Announcement about Mars. The space agency will gather a host of experts to its headquarters in Washington for a briefing where it promises to announce it has solved a huge mystery surrounding the Red Planet. NASA’s previous announcements have revealed groundbreaking findings, such as that in July of the discovery of Earth-life planet Kepler-452b, outside of …

One man is dead after a brazen, targeted shooting at a strip mall on Vancouver’s west side. According to a release, the incident occurred just after 2 p.m. Sunday when gun shots were fired at King Edward Mall, a strip mall on the southeast corner of the intersection of Oak Street and King Edward Avenue.

The Canadian Police and Peace Officers’ Memorial service honoured four men and women killed in the line of duty last year. Two names were added to the Pillars of Strength memorial at the Alberta Legislature on Alberta Police and Peace Officer Memorial Day. Constable David Wynn was shot and killed in January, while Constable Daniel Woodall died after being shot …

A 65-year-old man and a nine-year-old boy are dead and four other people are in hospital, all but one with critical injuries, after a multi-vehicle collision in Vaughan Sunday afternoon. “Numerous people were taken to hospital, some were children reportedly, as well. It’s a very serious collision and an ongoing investigation,” said York Regional Police Const. Andy Pattenden.

Coldplay are said to be releasing a new album called A Head Full of Dreams before year’s end. Might “Amazing Day” serve as our first preview of the LP?. The pro-shot footage was captured at the Global Citizen Festival today (September 26) in New York, NY. It’s a syrupy sweet ballad even by Coldplay’s standards, as the weepy 6/8 piano …

Petra Pazsitka was found living under a false name in the city of Düsseldorf. Petra Pazsitka went missing in 1984 from student housing in the northern German city of Braunschweig, where she was studying computer science, the BBC reports. Then aged 24, she had withdrawn money from her bank account and told her neighbor to look after her pet bird. …

Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting are calling it quits on their 21-month marriage, the actress confirms to People. The Big Bang Theory star’s representative has confirmed the couple has split. Suggesting her client has already ditched her married name, she tells People.com, “Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting have mutually decided to end their marriage. They ask for privacy at this …

Kenny Rogers has revealed that he will retire — but the country music legend will give his fans one final tour before he walks away. Kenny’s world tour will start in 2016, but details have yet to be revealed. “I’ve done this long enough,” says the 77-year-old singer. “Sometimes there’s a fine line between being driven and being selfish, and …

The government has revoked the citizenship of Zakaria Amara, one of the senior members of a Toronto terror group that was exposed in June 2006. The new law gives the government the power to strip a dual citizen of their Canadian citizenship if he or she commits a serious crime.

South Korean carmaker Hyundai announced a recall of 470,000 Sonatas in the United States on Friday to replace engines that could have metal debris inside. The recall affects 2011-2012 cars manufactured at a plant in Alabama between December 2009 and April 2012, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said. The cars involved have 2.0 or 2.4 liter direct injection …

The province announced Friday the geographic range of blacklegged ticks continues to expand north and west in Manitoba. The province’s annual blacklegged tick surveillance program has identified a number of new and expanded Lyme disease risk areas, and the risk of tick-borne disease transmission is greater in these areas.