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Spencer Stone, one of the three Americans who helped foil a terror attack on a French train, is in hospital in California after he was stabbed while apparently coming to a woman’s rescue. Spencer Stone, 23, was in intensive care after undergoing surgery for an apparent punctured lung following a brawl outside the nightclub in Sacramento, California. He was with ... Read More »

A driverless bus built in France is being tested in trafficin Greece for the first time. The buses, which only seat ten people and can reach maximum speeds of 12mph, are guided by GPS and supplementary sensors, including lasers and cameras, that send live data to a control centre. Read More »

One person was killed and three were injured in a shooting on Northern Arizona University’s Flagstaff campus early Friday morning, according to police. The shooter has been taken into custody, NAU reported. The campus is not on lock down. Initial calls reporting shots fired came in at 1:20 a.m. Arizona time, the school said in a statement. Read More »

Nicki Minaj is still not over the beef she had with Miley Cyrus at MTV’s Video Music Awards. The two musicians came to loggerheads at the event in August when Nicki called Miley a “b**ch” for speaking out about her in an interview with The New York Times ahead of the ceremony. Read More »

John Stamos of the “Full House” fame will be charged with driving under the influence (DUI) of the date rape drug GHB. According to TMZ, law enforcement officials believe the 52-year-old actor was under the influence of GHB, an intoxicant commonly used as a date rape drug, when he was arrested in Beverly Hills in June. Read More »

Where on earth is the best place to die? This week, the Economist Intelligence Unit tried to answer that question with its second Quality of Death report, which ranked 80 countries on palliative care and end-of-life support. Here’s a look at the best, the worst, and why Canada couldn’t crack the Top 10. Great Britain is the best country in ... Read More »

A engineering student Jared Mauldin wrote a letter to the editor of his school’s newspaper, The Easterner, in which he showed what it means to be a true feminist ally. Jared Mauldin, a senior mechanical engineering major at Eastern Washington University, began his letter: “To the women in my engineering classes.” He then went on to explain why he feels ... Read More »

A mother has described a Playmobil pirate ship as “racist” for including a dark skinned character with a slave collar. Ida Lockett said her son got the Playmobil pirate ship as a gift for his birthday recently and had been playing with it. She didn’t notice anything was amiss until she started helping him assemble it. That’s when she found ... Read More »

More than half of workers with depression do not seek treatment, according to a recent study. The study, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, investigated barriers to mental health care experienced by workers and the resulting impact on productivity. As many as 40 per cent of participants were experiencing significant depressive symptoms and, of that group, 52.8 ... Read More »

A king cobra snake that had been missing was found under a dryer in a garage not far from its owner’s home near Orlando. The venomous snake, named Elvis, disappeared from Airplane Repo star Mike Kennedy’s Florida home on 2 September. The 10ft (3m) cobra was found on Wednesday hiding under a clothes dryer in a woman’s garage about a ... Read More »

Sixteen-month-old Jaxon Taylor is laughing, walking and playing again after just a few weeks after being internally decapitated. The toddler was with his mum and nine-year-old sister Shayne when they collided head on with another vehicle at 110km/hr on September 15. Jaxon was airlifted from the site of the car crash to a hospital in Brisbane, Australia where he was ... Read More »