A new study has revealed that domesticated dogs can not only distinguish emotions from human speech but the content of words too. Just like humans, dogs were found to use different parts of the brain to determine the characteristics of a speaker’s voice (the familiarity, the gender, emotion etc) and the verbal content of their words.

Health Canada has ordered Canada’s medical marijuana companies to stop making their products look so good.

Melissa Rivers posted a message to her late mother‘s Twitter account on Thursday.

“Penguins of Madagascar” is serviceable family entertainment. It’s got a kid-friendly message that looks don’t matter, it’s what you do that counts, complemented with lots of zany animated action, cheeky humor and a few inspired one-liners for Mom and Dad. It’s as vanilla and by-the-book as kids’ flicks come – and just in time for holiday break.

Rinelle Harper case : Crown prosecutors in Manitoba say they will be seeking an adult sentence if a youth charged with attacking a 16-year-old girl and leaving her to die by a river is convicted.

Edmonds mom shoots home intruder, Thanksgiving morning was shattered for an Edmonds family early Thursday when an intruder tried to break into the family’s home.

Ten years after an unusually scalloped clam was dragged up from the ocean floor off northern Vancouver Island, the tiny mollusk is making waves in the research world. Melissa Frey, curator of invertebrates at the Royal B.C. Museum, was cataloguing a number of species about four years ago when she noticed something different about the tiny clam.

Ezra Levant makes his living saying things most people would never say. Now he’s going to have to pay for it. On Thursday, Ontario Superior Court Judge Wendy Matheson ruled that Levant libelled former law student Khurrum Awan and must pay him $80,000 in damages, according to National Post reporter Joseph Brean. Awan had sought $100,000 in damages.

The “Eye of Sauron” isn’t just something that appears in The Lord of the Rings movies. Astronomers are now using a cosmic feature with the same namesake to measure precise distances to galaxies that are tens of millions of light-years away.

Creed singer Scott Stapp blames Obama for financial woes, during a radio interview on Thursday, the former Creed singer claims the IRS decided to destroy him after he publicly expressed disappointment in Obama during a Fox News interview in 2012.

USDA buying cranberries to stabilize prices, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approving up to $55 million nationwide to purchase up to 68 million pounds of surplus cranberry products, a move that federal lawmakers say will provide stability to Washington state cranberry growers.