Blake Lively has has a go at a red carpet reporter who asked about her outfit as she was making her way to Variety’s Power Of Women lunch in New York, firing back “would you ask a man that?” The star attended Variety’s Power of Women luncheon yesterday, where a reporter dared to ask what her “power outfit” was. Needless …

Amy Schumer bought a $2,000 mattress for a store employee who allowed her to use the bathroom. Amy Schumer was jogging in Chicago recently when she had a bathroom emergency. Thankfully, Sagine Lazarre, an employee at the Six Corners Mattress Firm, graciously let the comedienne use the bathroom since she was in dire need of one.

A 6-year-old boy has died after being struck by a vehicle in Scarborough Friday afternoon, Toronto police said. Const. Craig Brister told The Scarborough Mirror they received a call around 3:30 p.m. that a child and an adult had been hit by a car at Halfmoon Square and Canmore Boulevard, near Ellesmere and Conlins roads in Scarborough. Toronto paramedics said …

You may think you’re making a healthy choice when reaching for a diet drink rather than its full-sugar counterpart, but new research has found you might actually be increasing your risk of dementia and stroke. The study, which was conducted in the US, found people who drank a can of artificially-sweetened fizzy drink, such as Diet Coke or Pepsi Max, …

Astronomers said that a “super-Earth” discovered just 39 light years away may be one of the best candidates outside of our solar system to support life. This new, big, dense planet is rocky, like Earth, and has the right temperatures for water, putting it in the habitable zone for life, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature …

RCMP confirm two people have died following a train derailment in the small B.C. community of Woss. Ambulance crews from across Northern Vancouver Island responded to the incident and the injuries are believed to be very serious. The RCMP is investigating the accident and the area has been cordoned off as they try to determine what caused the train to …

Naked mole rats — yes, like Rufus from “Kim Possible” — are really weird mammals. Naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber) have never been the most conventional mammal – the scrotum-looking creatures are resistant to cancer, can survive almost 20 minutes without oxygen, and can barely feel pain. But new study has revealed that they’re even more bizarre than scientists could …

A toxin killed two beluga whales that died suddenly in November 2016, according to a five-month-long investigation by the Vancouver Aquarium. Dozens of toxologists, doctors, and genome specialists contributed to the investigation but could not determine the exact toxin, the aquarium said in a written release. But the investigative team determined the toxin was likely introdued to the whales either …

Researchers have discovered a new garbage patch — this time floating in the remote, frozen reaches of the Arctic. Plastics discarded in Europe and the East Coast of North America slowly drift to a watery graveyard north of Norway, according to a new study — endangering wildlife already struggling to adapt to a changing climate. The consequences of the pollution …

Researchers at St. Boniface Hospital have developed a drug that could finally beat antibiotic-resistant infections. The drug, dubbed PEG-2S, has received a provisional patent, and its development is highlighted in a study published today in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (CJPP). Without affecting healthy cells, the drug prevents the proliferation of a harmful bacteria that possesses a specific …

An asteroid over a kilometer across flew safely past the Earth. It was the largest asteroid to pass us in over a decade (the last one was Toutatis in 2004), and there are no known asteroids that size that will get as close for another decade. Brad Tucker, an astronomer at the Australian National University, said: “This tells us how …