The commission responsible for managing Quebec’s place names has announced it will rename 11 sites around the province that contain the “N-word.” “Some of the place names, which have become common usage, are the result of historic events,” notes the Commission de toponomie in a report issued Friday.

Fetty Wap reportedly was injured Saturday in a traffic accident in his hometown of Paterson while riding his motorcyle. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment. The hip-hop star was struck by a driver who was attempting to make a left turn at the corner of 30th and Park at around 1 p.m. Witnesses say he was struck …

“Bei Bei” means “precious treasure”. The month-old giant panda cub at the National Zoo officially has a name: Bei Bei. Michelle Obama and Madame Peng Liyuan, the first lady of China, announced the name and also had a hand in choosing it. Reports the Washington Post).

Ridley Scott’s plans for the new sequel/prequel have become Alien: Paradise Lost, which will join the other seven movies in the impossibly sprawling franchise. In a recent interview, the Blade Runner director announced that he had three sequels to Alien forerunner Prometheus in the works, saying he hopes the final one would link back to the original 1986 film.

Fire Breaks Out At Britain’s Biggest Mosque. The Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden went up in flames just after midday, with smoke seen for miles around. About 70 firefighters were this afternoon continuing to tackle the blaze, which ripped through the building on London Road.

China has just opened its first glass-bottomed suspension bridge, and being nearly 600-feet-high and 1,000-feet-long, it definitely isn’t for the faint of heart. The bridge, which connects the peak of the park to the Stone Buddha Mountain, was previously made of wood but after part of it was successfully converted to glass last year, authorities decided to for the complete …

A cannabis “forest” has been discovered by police officers in a leafy borough of south-west London. Images of up to 150 marijuana plants growing on scrubland were posted on social media by Kingston police after officers from the leafy borough were called to Lower Marsh Lane shortly before noon yesterday.

A McDonald’s employee in Chicago is being praised after he left his till during rush hour to help feed a disabled man. The worker named Kenny was working at a Chicago McDonald’s restaurant when a man in a wheelchair approached him at the register after receiving his food and asked “please help me”.

High Schooler Defends Blind Kid From Bully, Gets Suspended By School. The infuriating video was captured at Huntington Beach High School in Southern California, where a blind student, Austin, attends school.

James Dukes, an 11 year-old boy from Marietta, Georgia became a true hero earlier this week when he helped his mother deliver his baby brother According to CBS News, Kenyarda Dukes wasn’t due to give birth earlier this week, but the pain she was in Tuesday morning told her the baby was on its way.

Cell phone video footage shows police responding to a 911 call of a wheel-chair bound man who allegedly shot himself by fatally shooting him ten times. In a video of the encounter on Wednesday afternoon, an unidentified officer points his gun at the 28-year-old, yelling “show me your hands!” A shot is fired, but it is unclear who it came …