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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A new book about Tom Petty claims that the artist was addicted to heroin in the ’90s. And the author of the unauthorized biography says that Petty is okay with that information finally going public. Biographer Warren Zanes notes that Petty was reluctant to publicly discuss his addiction, telling The Washington Post, “The first thing [Petty] said to me on …

Car hackers are being courted by the Canadian military as part of a government-led initiative to better grasp automobile cybersecurity amid a rash of damning discoveries. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), the Canadian military’s research agency, published an official request for interested companies to submit proposals on improving cyber security in automotive systems on Tuesday 6 October, according to …

Daniel Craig has given the clearest indication yet that he will not play James Bond for a fifth time, saying he would rather “slash my wrists”. The actor, who reprises the role of the secret agent in his fourth Bond movie, Spectre, this November told Time Out magazine it was time to move on. “I’m over it at the moment. …

Claire Danes didn’t need any makeup to look stunning as she stepped out in New York City on Tuesday with her toddler son Cyrus in a stroller. She opted for a laid back combination of jeans and a loose-fitting grey cardigan, layered over a plain black top and comfortable flat black shoes. The star added a touch of bling as …

President Obama apologized Wednesday to the leader of Doctors Without Borders over the deadly U.S. bombing of a field hospital in Afghanistan, just a day after the White House stopped short of an apology by citing a lack of information about what led to the attack. MSF’s president Dr Joanne Liu said she had recieved an apology over the attack …