A 59-year-old man has died after being struck by a public transit bus in Pickering. Police said emergency crews were called to Bayly Street, east of Whites Road South, after 7:10 p.m Tuesday after reports a man was struck by a Durham Region Transit bus. The man, who is believed to be 59, died at the scene.

House Judiciary Committee treads lightly on Robert Bentley impeachment probe. An impeachment probe into Gov. Robert Bentley’s relationship with his former top staffer remains stalled in the Alabama House of Representatives, even as some legislators push for its revival. The House Judiciary Committee, charged with investigating Bentley for possible impeachment, voted Tuesday to continue a pause that began in the …

A former grade-school teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to numerous sex-related charges involving eight minors in a Belleville court. Jaclyn McLaren appeared in Belleville court Tuesday and entered the pleas with the Crown saying those seven counts were a representation of the crimes attached to all 42 of the charges. In addition, the court heard, each of the counts McLaren pled …

Microsoft users are able to access their accounts again after an outage prevented access to email, Xbox and Skype Tuesday morning. According to independent website Down Detector, Outlook.com, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and Office 365 are all experiencing problems of some kind, with users taking to Twitter to vent their frustrations at yet another high-profile outage. Outlook.com appears to have …

Edith Fuller just made history by becoming the youngest person to ever qualify for the Scripps National Spelling Bee at only 5 years old. Sports Illustrated reported that Edith Fuller won a regional competition qualifying her for the national bee in May. ABC News reported that she is the youngest person to qualify. Tulsa World reported that Edith beat 50 …

A new NUS research finds that taxi cabs painted yellow are 9 percent less likely to be involved in accidents than ones painted blue. The study was led by Professor Ho Teck Hua, NUS Deputy President (Research & Technology) and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, in collaboration with Associate Professor Chong Juin Kuan from NUS Business and Assistant Professor Xia …

Drinking concentrated blueberry juice for just 12 weeks can lead to improvements in brain function in older people, according to a small UK study. In the study, healthy people aged 65-77 who drank concentrated blueberry juice every day showed improvements in cognitive function, blood flow to the brain and activation of the brain while carrying out cognitive tests. There was …

Actress Emma Watson has hit back at critics accusing her of being anti-feminist while posing topless for her latest Vanity Fair shoot. The 26-year-old Beauty and the Beast star featured on the April cover of the culture magazine, but a photograph inside caught the Internet’s attention; the shot featured Watson looking right at the camera while posing in a crocheted …

A Huge manhunt is underway in Germany for a teenage psychopath who knifed a nine-year-old boy to death – and then posted a video boasting of the murder on the internet. The boy’s body was found on Monday in the basement of a house in Herne after authorities received a tip-off from a member of the public about a potential …

NASA will send an ice chest sized box to ISS to make a cool place in the universe. The box will have lasers, electromagnetic knife and vacuum chamber to eliminate the energy of gas particles, making them motionless. The instrument is named CAL, Cold Atom Laboratory, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California created this instrument. “Studying these hyper-cold …

Health Canada has responded to an acute shortage of the cancer drug Fluorouracil by allowing the release 3,608 vials that had been quarantined last fall after reports of leaking vials. These vials were quarantined as a precaution by the manufacturer last fall, over concerns about broken or compromised containers. Doctors have now been instructed to check each vial before the …