Miss Israel and Miss Lebanon are engaged in a war of words, but not over a border dispute. The issue at hand: A selfie.

The soon-to-be displaced 17,600 workers of Target Canada have received an unexpected assistance from competitors Walmart and Sears. Both offered the workers potential jobs as well as discounts in their respective stores, according to reports.

Amber Rose posted four photos on Instagram on the weekend wearing … well … not much. The model and recording artist, who used to date Kanye West, posed in a strategically placed piece of black material which can only just be classified as a bikini.

Greg Plitt was killed Saturday when he was struck by a Metrolink train in Burbank, Calif. He was 37. Witnesses told investigators they saw Plitt standing on the track north of the Burbank station even as the train’s horn was blaring. Investigators have ruled out suicide.

Motley Crue Biopic ‘The Dirt’ Moves Forward With New Production Company, Focus Features executives have acquired the rights to the film, which is based on the band’s bestselling autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band.

Tupac Shakur exhibit to open at Grammy Museum. The changes hitmaker’s belongings, including clothes, cassettes and handwritten notes, will be displayed to the public at the All Eyez on Me: The Writings of Tupac Shakur exhibit.

Gary Sinise has been lined up to lead the new Criminal Minds spinoff. According to network sources, Sinise will portray Jack Garrett, a 20-year veteran of the FBI who leads an elite BAU team that handles cases involving Americans abroad.

Drug companies’ poor practices are to blame for the rise of antibiotic resistance which threatens to make even the smallest infections deadly, one industry chief executive has claimed. Doctors have usually been blamed for bacterial resistance because of overprescription, but Karl Rotthier, the chief executive of Dutch-based DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals, claims lax procedures at drug firms are the real cause.

According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, stress suppresses the ability to empathize with strangers. Empathy is the ability to share and feel another’s emotions. According to researchers, being around strangers generates stress in people, which in turn, diminishes empathy.

Toronto residents will get their first indication this week of Mayor John Tory’s financial plans – and a chance to see if he can make good on campaign promises to freeze TTC fares and hold residential tax increases at or below the rate of inflation.

Experts have warned that if a mega-thrust earthquake were to hit the Vancouver Island, like it did around 315 years ago, the Earth could rip open like a zipper and the people living along the outer coast would only have between 15 and 20 minutes to escape.