Canada will join NASA in a mission to bring back rocks from an asteroid that’s considered a potential threat to hit the Earth some day. Known as a “sample return” mission, the unmanned spacecraft would launch for the asteroid Bennu in late 2016, arriving in 2018.

Electric car enthusiasts got a fresh jolt Thursday as Tesla Motors opened its first B.C. supercharger station in Squamish.

The former Guantanamo Bay detainee has agreed to a stay of a decision by Alberta’s top court that ruled he should be serving his sentence as a youth and be transferred to a provincial jail. His lawyers say he’s willing to remain at the federal Bowden Institution in central Alberta because he’s doing well there.

Marijuana can increase short-term paranoia, new study led by Oxford University researchers says. The study shows that the active compound in the drug THC (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol) can induce paranoia. The research also found that low self-esteem and changes in perception led to cannabis users feeling more paranoid than non-users.

Cocktails that use energy drinks as one of the main ingredients have now been around for a good time, becoming one of the most popular choices in bars and clubs across the United States and the World. According to a recent study it appears that mixing these caffeinated energy drinks with alcohol will increase the consumer’s desire to keep drinking. …

Shark Chokes On Sea Lion In Australia, fisheries officials were left puzzled by the case of the four-metre (13-ft) white pointer. It had previously been seen thrashing around in the sea off Coronation Beach, 430km (270 miles) north of Perth. Experts found the shark, which washed up earlier this week, had no sign of visible injury or disease – but …

The beheading that took place on a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie in 2008 has claimed another victim. Ken Barker, a retired RCMP corporal who was a dog handler for the force, took his own life last weekend after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder for years. He was one of the first police officers on the scene of the …

Johnny Winter died yesterday, Wednesday, July 16, at his hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland at the age of 70. The cause of death was not announced but he had seemed to be in very frail health when he appeared in Chicago a couple of times this year.

Long time ESPN anchor Stuart Scott who is currently battling from cancer was honored with Jimmy V Perseverance Award on the annual ESPY Awards on Wednesday night.

A 55-year-old Chicago man was ordered held on $90,000 bail for allegedly spitting in a Cook County Circuit Court judge’s face this week. David Nicosia got in the 79-year-old female African-American judge’s face and called her “Rosa Parks” as she was smoking in the Daley Center plaza Monday afternoon, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Erin Antonietti said.

IT’S BEEN A decade since Kim Cattrall famously portrayed the confident and sultry Samantha Jones on the hit HBO series Sex and the City. On Sunday (July 20), the B.C.-raised actor returns to the television network’s Canadian channel—HBO Canada—in a new series, Sensitive Skin.