A third-storey deck crashed to the ground during a house party in Halifax’s south end Saturday morning, sending six people to hospital.

Ashya King, the boy with a brain tumour whose parents removed him from a hospital in England, will now have his treatment paid for by the NHS.

The 65th International Astronautical Congress 2014, the world’s premier space event, will take place in Toronto, Canada from September 29 to October 3, 2014 at the award-winning Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Greek researchers from the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), have taken a swimming robot to the ocean waves for the first time. The robot, developed as part of the European Commission funded OCTOPUS program, can swim using an octopus-style sculling motion, and can also move across the ocean floor, albeit slowly.

After a difficult search, scientists have found definitive traces of water on a relatively small exoplanet for the first time. The exoplanet in question, HAT-P-11b, is the size of Neptune and has copious amounts of both water vapor and hydrogen in its atmosphere.

Toronto and New York markets rebounded Friday from steep losses the day before, as investors sought bargains amid Thursday’s lower stock prices. Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index soared 133.20 points to close at 15,026.77, propped up by gains in information technology and energy stocks.

After being left out of NASA contracts to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, Sierra Nevada Corp. said Friday it has filed a protest asking the U.S. Government Accountability Office to review the space agency’s $6.8 billion award to Boeing and SpaceX.

Scientists from the University of Manchester have urged environmentalist scientists to broaden the advice they give on global climate change.

Young pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong faced off with riot police Saturday after a night of scuffles and arrests.

Researchers at the University of Rochester have discovered a way to hide large objects from sight using inexpensive and readily available lenses, a technology that seems to have sprung from the pages of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy series.

The fired employee who allegedly beheaded a female co-worker and stabbed another woman warned that ‘Sharia law is coming’ on Facebook, it was today revealed.