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‘Angry Splash Mountain Lady’ gave death stare on Disney ride as message to husband. Jordan Alexander’s favorite ride is Splash Mountain and she was very excited to ride it with her husband, Steve, during a recent visit to Walt Disney World. The photo shows Jordan, arms folded with a scowl on her face, alone in a seat of Disney World’s …

Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie welcomed their first child together, baby girl Frances Laiz Setta Schenkkan. “Morena and Ben are so happy to welcome baby girl Frances Laiz Setta Schenkkan on March 2,” the actors’ representative confirmed to USA Today. “All are happy and healthy and appreciate the well-wishes.”

A South African teen may have discovered a piece of the missing MH370 plane while strolling at a beach in Mozambique. Liam Lotter said he found the piece during a family vacation in the east African nation in December. The teen was strolling along a beach in southern Mozambique on December 30 when he saw the 3.3-foot-long and a little …

Two weeks in and we’ve had our second Big Brother Canada, with Sharry walking out of the door after a major 11-1 vote to see her evicted. “In the moment I was shocked, but at the same time I was flattered that the whole house was afraid of my game,” said Sharry Ash. “It was definitely tricky [being up against …

A new method, which alters a person’s immune system, could offer a breakthrough in transplant surgery allowing patients to receive kidneys from incompatible donors, experts have revealed. Patients who received such kidneys were more likely to be alive eight years later than those who remained on dialysis or those who waited for a deceased donor, according to research published in …

The co-founder of Skype, Janus Friis, as well as former Skype engineers, have created a new ultra secure messaging app called Wire that promises end-to-end encryption for all conversations, including video calls. The Wire application was launched for desktop, iOS and Android in late 2014 and is managed by a Switzerland-based team of engineers with distinguished backgrounds in major firms …

A woman nearly crashed into a Richmond RCMP cruiser earlier this week. When she was pulled over, officers found that she’d been busted for distracted driving a dozen times before. Mounties in that city tweeted a photo of the driver’s past infractions.

Israel Kristal lived through the tumult of two world wars, lost his family in the Holocaust and escaped death in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He then built a new life in Israel. On Friday, at the age of 112 years and 178 days, he was declared the oldest man in the world. “I don’t know the secret for long life,” …

Ariana Grande is out to prove that she’s a “Dangerous Woman,” and ahead of her new album, she’s doing that with a sultry, slow-burning new single. “Dangerous Woman,” the stylish new Grande track, was released on Thursday night (Mar. 10) and previews the pop star’s follow-up to 2014’s My Everything, due out in May.

Jamie Gilt, 31, an outspoken advocate for gun rights who even ran a Facebook page called Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense, dedicated to her love for guns, and featuring statements such as, “My right to protect my child with my gun trumps your fear of my gun,” was shot by her 4-year-old son this week. Florida mom was driving to …

A sewer back-up took out power on four floors and damaged an important scanner at the University of Manitoba’s Buhler Centre. The PET scanner was damaged in the outage. It is used to detect and monitor conditions such as epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and heart disease. “We fully understand the seriousness of the temporary loss of our PET (positron emission tomography) CT …