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All good things must come to an end. Rolls-Royce is slowly winding down the seventh generation of its vaunted Phantom. Some variants won’t be returning for the car’s eighth generation, but there’s still plenty to get excited about, including a new run of special-edition cars. The announcement was made by Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes, thus ending a 13-year run for …

A girl scout in the US city of Portland, Oregon showed some “business savvy” this week by selling her group’s iconic cookies outside a legal marijuana dispensary. A girl scout in Oregon helped stoners, potheads, people who enjoy weed, live deliciously when she set up a cookie stand outside of a weed dispensary in Portland, Ore. The unnamed girl scout—accompanied …

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey is back in hospital for the third time since contracting the disease in Sierra Leone. Cafferkey was originally infected while working in Sierra Leone in December 2014 and spent almost a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London. She was released after making a recovery but fell ill again in October …

The Samsung Galaxy S7 and bigger Galaxy S7 are finally here and as expected, potential buyers are extremely excited about the early release date. Canadian carriers today opened up pre-orders for the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. The two flagship devices will be available on March 11, and will start at $399.99 and $499.99, respectively, when bought on contract.

Payments giant MasterCard has said it plans to accept selfies and fingerprints as an alternative to passwords and codes to accept online payments. To use selfie authentication, customers will need to download a Mastercard app that allows them to take a photo each time they make an online purchase. Their face will be scanned to prove they are making a …

The reaction to Apple refusing to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters appears to have been overwhelmingly supportive, but a new poll from Pew Research Center shows that not all Americans are siding with Apple. Fifty-one percent of the 1,002 adults surveyed by Pew between Feb. 18 and 21 said Apple should unlock the phone. Thity-eight …

Air Pollution Causes Obesity? A study published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology found that rats who breathed polluted Beijing air gained weight after just three weeks of exposure. They also experienced cardio-respiratory dysfunctions, and decreased metabolic function. After only 19 days, the lungs and livers of pregnant rats exposed to the polluted air …

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have finally revealed the first picture of son Saint West. Nevertheless, the Internet is making noise about cuteness and what the boy really looks like and … whatever. It’s a baby. That’s all he can look like at this point, unless he has a horn growing out of his face.

Cara McCollum, former Miss New Jersey and Miss America candidate, has died at the age of 24. “Cara McCollum passed away this morning. Her family was with her in the operating room, and she died peacefully at 4:31 a,m.,” reads a message on the Prayers for Cara Facebook page, which was created by her friends as they kept a non-stop …

Benedict Cumberbatch has been shooting Doctor Strange on the streets of London. Benedict Cumberbatch can be seen in costume and in motion in some of the shots, along with other characters said to be Baron Mordo and Wong.

John Kasich has signed legislation to strip government money from Planned Parenthood in Ohio. The move from the Republican presidential candidate was expected, but he made it official Sunday. It comes a day after Kasich’s weak performance in South Carolina’s GOP presidential primary and a day before he heads to Virginia to campaign.