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A freight train carrying roughly 200,000 liters of sulphuric acid derailed in a remote area of Queensland, Australia. The 26-carriage train came off the tracks around 12 miles east of Julia Creek in northwest Queensland. Three people were treated for minor injuries, local media reports say.

Samsung’s growth recently reached a stall, which caused the company to go back to the drawing board and redesign its products form the ground up. Lesser build qualities seemed to be the blame, but some current and former Samsung executives seem to disagree with this idea; they believe the real issue with the Korean giant is the lack of software …

A man distracted by an electronic device fell off a San Diego cliff that is a popular gathering spot to watch the sunset and plunged 60 feet to his death, officials said Saturday. “Witnesses stated seeing someone distracted by an electronic device and he just fell over the edge,” San Diego Lifeguard Bill Bender told KNBC. “(He) wasn’t watching where …

Drugs are the probable cause of eight deaths in Greater Victoria in the past week, coroner Barb McLintock says. There have been one confirmed and seven suspected fatal overdoses since last Sunday, she said. Vancouver Island regional coroner Matt Brown said Wednesday that toxicology tests are now complete in the case of a man found dead in a stairwell at …

Tooth fillings made with bioactive glass should slow secondary tooth decay, and also provide some minerals that could help replace those being lost. Engineers at Oregon State University have made some promising findings about the ability of “bioactive” glass to help reduce the ability of bacteria to attack composite tooth fillings – and perhaps even provide some of the minerals …

Mall St. Matthews in Louisville was shut down after as many as 2,000 kids and teens got into several fights, prompting chaos. Police first began responding to reports of “disturbances” at 7pm ET on Saturday. But the officers assigned to the mall could not cope with the load.

An unidentified suspect was caught at a US air base in Japan on Saturday with a “suspicious package,” causing a temporary lockdown at the site, the base officials said in a statement. The warning was lifted after the unidentified person was taken into custody. Authorities have not said who the suspect is or what might have been in the package. …

Katy Perry insists her Christmases are ”not that fancy” and are just about spending time with her family. She said: “We all make food together. My mother still does stockings, which is adorable – she still puts a toothbrush in my stocking and some extra socks. If we’re in town, we like to go to the movie theater. It’s really …

Quebec Health Minister, Gaetan Barrette, spent Saturday afternoon touring a Syrian refugee health clinic set up in the emergency room of the former Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. The clinic has been open since mid-December, and Barrette says everyone will have full access to provincial health care. Patients are being provided with a variety of services, ranging from getting the …

A police officer in Louisiana recently crashed his patrol car while on-duty after an owl flew into his unit and attacked him, according to the Covington Police Department. Covington Officer Lance Benjamin was working early on Christmas Eve when he suddenly felt something hit him on the side of his face. “So I’m thinking ‘okay, maybe it was a football …

Google is working on a new method for users to log into their accounts without needing to type in their passwords, according to International Business Times. The U.S. search giant confirmed Tuesday that it is testing a way to allow users to log into its services using only their smartphones and whatever other device they may be trying to access …