Astronomers have found a new Earth-like ‘frozen’ planet in a binary star system located 3,000 light-years away, a discovery that expands the potential locations where habitable planets can be detected.

The 43 year old actress was testing a stunt for her new movie ‘Tammy’ but things went wrong when she failed to interpret her adviser’s instructions properly and crashed in the water.

French authorities paid tribute to a school teacher who was stabbed to death in front of her class by the mother of one of her students, as more details of the killing emerged. Fabienne Terral-Calmès, a 34-year-old married mother-of-two, was attacked in her classroom in the southern town of Albi, just after morning lessons had started.

A motorist used his cellphone to capture what appeared to be the violent arrest of a woman on the 10 Freeway in California on Tuesday. The video shows the officer walked up behind the woman, grabbed her, knocked her to the ground, straddled her body, and punched her repeatedly.

A young woman is dead and another in an induced coma as Ottawa Police say they’re investigating severe reactions to pills consumed at rave events in Ottawa. They say the events took place between Sunday and Tuesday this week – one in central Ottawa, the other in the east end.

A new study suggests aerobic and resistance training combined are the most effective ways for diabetics to control their blood sugar, rather than each individually.

For Bruce LaBruce, making a film about an 18-year-old boy who falls in love with an 81-year-old man is taking it down a notch. The veteran Toronto director is used to trading in outrageous themes and explicit sex scenes. In that light, his new movie, Gerontophilia, is as close as he gets to making a mainstream romantic comedy.

Doctors have highlighted the potential dangers of headbanging to heavy-metal music after a man developed a chronic subdural haematoma after a Motorhead concert. The 50 year-old man had complained of a steadily worsening headache despite no head trauma.

A high-definition camera is allowing bird watchers and scientists an unfettered online view into the nesting den of an Arctic Snowy Owl. As many as six chicks are beginning to emerge from the burrow near Barrow, Ala.

A new specimen of the ancient dinosaur bird Archaeopteryx, whose hind limbs were covered in trousers of feathers, has been discovered in Germany. The researchers, who report their findings in the journal Nature, say the specimen will add to our knowledge of how birds evolved feathers.

A new study released today by the Fraser Institute says a typical Canadian family with two parents and two children will pay up to $11,786 for public health care in 2014. “Health care in Canada is not free—while Canadians may not pay directly for medical services, they pay a substantial amount of money for health care through taxes,” said Bacchus …