A child in the northeastern US state of Rhode Island has become the first to die from an ongoing outbreak of a respiratory virus, enterovirus D68, health officials said Wednesday.

Lionsgate is bringing back Twilight in the form of five short films that will be shown exclusively on Facebook.

Researchers have discovered a new form of non-genetic inheritance, showing for the first time that offspring can resemble a mother’s previous sexual partner – in flies at least.

Two of the world’s top skiers, JP Auclair and Andreas Fransson, have been killed following an avalanche in the Andes. The men, from Canada and Sweden respectively, were swept away while climbing Monte San Lorenzo, a peak on the Chile-Argentina border.

How active are today’s Canadians? Ipsos Reid, Canada’s market intelligence leader, asked scores of respondents about their fitness preferences, and overall, the results show that they are an active bunch. A new study conducted by Ipsos Reid in partnership with the Canadian Sporting Goods Association (CSGA) reveals that eight-in-ten Canadian households nationally have at least one person who engages in …

Liv Tyler is pregnant for the second time, her representative has confirmed, saying she’s happy and thrilled.

For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays establishes Lena Dunham—the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO’s Girls—as one of the most original young talents writing today.

Sony Pictures are keen to follow-up their 2009 zombie horror hit with a sequel. Some five years after the fact, Zombieland 2 has now bagged a writer to pen the next stage of Ruben Fleischer’s zombie apocalypse story.

When an Internet message announcing a salt water solution for Ebola went viral in July, many Nigerians were quick to take heed. Twenty people were hospitalized and two died, reportedly from an excessive intake of salt.

A man has died and a woman was injured after a stabbing on Eglinton Avenue Tuesday night, Toronto police said. Emergency responders received a report of the incident on Lanark Ave. just after 10 p.m.

Aral Sea – Satellite images, released last week by NASA, reveal how a large section of the Aral Sea, a lake lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south, has dried out.