Former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer plead guilty Thursday to all 14 charges against her including eight counts of first degree murder. The murders occurred between 2007 and 2014 and make Wettlaufer, who will turn 50 on June 10, the worst health care serial killer in Canadian history. In a 57-page agreed statement of facts, the court heard Wettlaufer injected each victim …

Researchers using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, have identified bright areas in craters near the moon’s south pole that are cold enough to have frost present on the surface. The new evidence comes from an analysis that combined surface temperatures with information about how much light is reflected off the moon’s surface. “We found that the coldest …

Android Pay has begun rolling out across Canada with support for eligible Visa and Mastercard credit cards. Banks in the initial phase will include BMO Bank of Montreal, CIBC, Banque Nationale, Scotiabank, Desjardins, President’s Choice Financial, ATB Financial, and Canadian Tire Financial Services in Canada, and prepaid Scotiabank and Desjardins cards. Support for Interac-branded debit cards will begin roll-out on …

A New Brunswick mother says her nine-year-old daughter was hospitalized after consuming e-cigarette fluids from a brightly labelled “Unicorn Milk” bottle. Lea L’Hoir told the CBC that on Monday, her daughter found the bottle of “Unicorn Milk” on the playground at school. Because of the fanciful labeling and the strawberry scent, her daughter and friends ingested a few drops of …

This creepy ‘faceless fish’ species was just discovered in the depths of the ocean. The CSIRO and Museums Victoria scientists discovered the 40cm-long fish, which appears to have no eyes, during a trawl 4000m below sea level in waters south of Sydney. Other creatures including bright red spiky rock crabs, spectacular bioluminescent sea stars, and gigantic sea spiders as big …

A study finds that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Middle East and Western Asia. A team led by Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, sequenced mitochondrial DNA sourced from 90 mummies originally interred in the ancient settlement of Abusir el-Meleq on the Nile floodplain. …

Hackers have published naked photos of thousands of plastic surgery patients who had work done at a Lithuanian clinic, it has been reported. Local authorities said more than 25,000 private photos and pieces of personal information from the Kaunas-based Grozio Chirurgija clinics were published on the internet One of the victims is reportedly the woman with the biggest breasts in …

Halton Regional Police are investigating after a woman fell off a cliff at Rattlesnake Point in Milton Sunday night. Emergency crews were called to Rattlesnake Point just off Appleby Line shortly after 9 p.m. Police say the woman was out with friends when she fell roughly 21 metres (70 feet) from the trail.

A newborn baby has been filmed appearing to take her first steps just moments after being born in astonishing footage taken inside the delivery room. The baby seems to be lifting one foot in front of another in the clip, mimicking the movements of walking while being held up by a nurse. The nurse apparently said she was just trying …

Some sad news for the weekend. Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor have announced their separation, following 17 years of marriage. In a statement sent to People magazine and published on May 27, Ben and Christine confirmed the news and asked for privacy.

NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer conducted an emergency spacewalk Tuesday morning, May 23, to replace a malfunctioning external computer and install a pair of antennas on the International Space Station (ISS). The spacewalk, which lasted two hours and 46 minutes, was Whitson’s tenth. She now holds a new record, having spent a total of 60 hours and 21 …