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Butter may actually be no worse for you than margarine after all, a major study has found. New research casts doubt on received wisdom that “healthy” vegetable oil spreads cut the risk of heart disease or an early death.

A pensioner who decapitated his wife and flushed her head down the toilet after discovering she had been sleeping with other men is facing the rest of his life behind bars. Dempsey Nibbs, 69, became enraged after vivacious Meals On Wheels worker Judith Nibbs, 60, taunted him as their relationship fell apart by saying she had been seeing other men. …

Brothers Convince Their Sister There’s A Zombie Apocalypse After She Gets Wisdom Teeth Removed. National Sibling day was just the other day and now there’s a video circulating on social media showing how brothers treat their little sisters in real life. It’s not all butterflies and unicorns for Millicent who went to have her wisdom teeth taken out only to …

A 72-year-old woman and her dog survived in the Gila County wilderness for nine days before being rescued by the Arizona Department of Public Safety on Saturday. Ann Charon Rodgers left Tucson March 31 to travel to Phoenix to visit her grandchildren, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Rodgers got lost on a remote stretch of a back-country …

Yellow fever is spreading from Angola to Congo, the World Health Organisation has said . According to the UN agency, from early January to 22 March 2016, a total of 151 suspected cases of YF, including 21 deaths (CFR: 14%), were reported by the national surveillance system. Of the 151 suspected cases, 9 were confirmed by serology (IgM) at the …

David Gest, the TV and music producer who turned into tabloid fodder during his stormy marriage withLiza Minnelli, died Tuesday in a London hotel. He was 62. According to police who responded to the scene, the death is “unexplained” and “a post-mortem will be held in due course.” Gest’s friend Imad Handi confirmed the news in a statement.

A new study finds that Indian-born women in Canada with two or more children are giving birth to more baby boys than expected. Researchers suggest sex-selective abortions may be a major reason. Scientists looked at data on more than 1.2 million births in women with having a third child in Ontario between Apr. 1, 1993, and Mar. 31, 2012. Of …

LG Electronics has announced that the modular functionality of the LG G5 smartphone has been opened to third-party developers, with the company set to showcase a suite of software and hardware development kits at its annual developer event on 15 April in San Francisco. Attendees will learn how they can develop apps and hardware compatible with the award winning LG …

Congratulations to Megan Fox! The actress is expecting a baby, People reports. The actress is apparently pregnant with her third child, according to sources who spoke with PEOPLE magazine. Fox was at CinemaCon in Las Vegas last night and debuted her new baby bump while promoting “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,” Cosmopolitan reports.

A panel of US researchers on Monday recommended taking a daily aspirin as a strategy for preventing heart disease and colon cancer in certain people in their 50s and 60s. The new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force — first proposed last September — find that the benefits of taking a low-dose aspirin (81 mg) to prevent a …

Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge users are now starting to receive the hotly anticipated Android 6.0 Marshmallow update. The report mentions that the first carriers to roll out the update are SaskTel, Eastlink and Videotron, while Bell and Telus are expected to commence the roll out process in the next few days. Unfortunately, there’s no word about the …