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Mars Food, the company behind popular food products like Dolmio’s and Uncle Ben’s, will now have a warning on some of their products advising consumers to eat them no more than once a week. Mars Food is introducing new labels to distinguish between “everyday” and “occasional” products. All Dolmio lasagne meal kits, lasagne sauces, oven bake kits and pesto will …

Jacqueline Galant offered her resignation because she had wrongly said she had no knowledge of a European report exposing flaws in Belgian government checks of security arrangements at the country’s airports. Prime Minister Charles Michel reportedly said that “the minister presented her resignation to the King and the King accepted it,” according to a statement from the royal palace.

The comedian Jan Boehmermann is accused of insulting Recep Erdogan on German television. The German government has granted a Turkish request to allow the possible prosecution of a TV comedian who wrote a crude poem about Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Boehmermann is accused of violating section 103 of the German criminal code, which prohibits insulting foreign …

Three families are suing in Canada alleging that the donor’s sperm was used for at least 36 children in the U.S., Britain and Canada. What kind of sperm bank are they running? According to the lawsuit, prospective clients were told that Donor 9623 was a gifted musician with an IQ of 160 who was pursuing a PhD in neuroscience engineering.

Canadian police have been in possession of a BlackBerry master encryption key since 2010, according to a pair of blockbuster reports today from Vice News and its sister site Motherboard. Mounties allegedly had access between 2010 and 2012 and the Canadian government spent almost two years fighting to keep this information secret. It is unclear how the force was unable …

Discovery of white-nose syndrome in a dead bat found in the Seattle area has alarmed people worried about survival of the mammal. The find was recently confirmed by Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. Jullet Craig, co-ordinator of the B.C. Community Bat Program, called the find “worrisome.” “We knew this deadly fungus that kills bats was moving westward across North …

Diana Ross was involved in a car accident while en route to a performance in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The 72-year-old singer complained of head and neck pain after the crash. After being treated at the scene by paramedics, she then indicated she’d seek further treatment on her own, the New York Post reported.

Kim Kardashian opened up about the unusual places she’s got jiggy during a revealing Q&A session streamed live on her app. After sister Khloe had penned a blog about losing her virginity, Kim followed suit, revealing to fans the location of her craziest sexcapades.

The number of people living with diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980 to 422 million adults, with most living in developing countries, the World Health Organization said. In its first report on diabetes, the WHO says the hundreds of millions of people around the world who are living with diabetes are mainly in developing countries. The organization puts the surge …

The first brain scans of people on LSD have revealed that the drug causes different regions of the brain to become more entangled and connected. In a series of experiments, scientists have gained a glimpse into how the psychedelic compound affects brain activity. The team administered LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) to 20 healthy volunteers in a specialist research centre and …

Longtime foes Donald Trump and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly reportedly sat down for a private meeting Wednesday to talk things out. “The meeting was at my request and Donald Trump was gracious enough to agree to it,” Kelly said on her show, The Kelly File, Wednesday night about her face-to-face with the GOP candidate at his Trump Tower building.