A GRIEVING dad received an overwhelming response from internet users when he asked them to photoshop a picture of his tragic baby daughter so she looked healthy. Nathan Steffel appealed online for help to digitally remove the medical tubes from the only photos he has of little Sophia, who died of a liver condition.

A Brazilian man claimed he turned 126 last week, which would make him the oldest person to ever live by nearly a decade. Jose Aguinelo dos Santos, a son of slaves, said he was born on July 7, 1888, just months before Brazil abolished slavery.

The United Arab Emirates has previously conquered the sky by constructing the world’s tallest building and now the oil-rich country has set its sights on the stars, promising to send the first unmanned Arab spaceship to Mars by 2021.

Canada’s central bank decided to keep its benchmark interest rate at one per cent today, the same level it has been at for almost four years. The Bank of Canada announced in its latest policy decision on Wednesday that it will keep its target for the overnight rate — the yardstick against which most consumer loans are based — steady …

The man convicted of murdering Mimi Khonsari in Barrie 10 years ago has been sentenced. And the Khonsari family was in the Toronto courtroom where it happened this morning, there to hear the outcome of a long and difficult legal proceeding. Today marked the second time Claire Spiers has been sentenced for Khonari’s murder, but unlike the first time there …

Tech giant Microsoft is expected to announce more than 6,000 job cuts early on 17 July with the recently-acquired Nokia handset division set to take the hardest hit, according to media reports. This would be the biggest layoff by the company in its 39-year history. The job cuts come as Microsoft looks to integrate the Nokia phone business and put …

A 23-year-old has permanently damaged her eyes and may even be blind after reportedly wearing the same pair of contact lenses continuously for 6 months. Doctors say by not removing and cleaning the lenses regularly a tiny single-cell amoeba was able to thrive in the student’s eye by eating her cornea.

Jillian Michaels parted ways with “The Biggest Loser” for the third time last month as announced in a statement released by NBC. Now, she has opened up about the reason why she really left the reality series.

High priced prostitute Alix Tichelman has pleaded not guilty to killing married Google executive and father of five Forrest Hayes with a fatal dose of heroin. Tichelman, 26, was arrested after CCTV footage identified her callously stepping over the body of 51-year-old Hayes, to finish a glass of wine, before fleeing his yacht. She denies charges of manslaughter, prostitution, destroying …

Scientists have discovered the largest “four-winged” dinosaur, according to a new study. The newfound predator has the longest feathers yet outside of birds. According to scientists, the findings yield insights on how dinosaurs may have flown. The feathered dinosaur is 125-million-year-old and is named Changyuraptor yangi. It sports feathers over its body, including its arms and legs, which give an …

A mysterious unexplained cater has appeared in northern Siberia that has sparked an urgent expedition. Aerial images of the gas rich region where the hole was discovered is up to 80m wide in Yamal, a peninsula jutting into Arctic waters whose name translates as “the end of the world.”