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A group of friends hiking near Gainesville caught a strange sight in their path: a fight between a horse and an alligator. And it appears the horse emerged victorious. Krystal M. Berry posted the shocking video on Facebook, and it’s exploding across the internet. The group of horses, including a little colt, were grazing alongside the path. The alligator walked …

Patients who are too fat or too thin are likelier to have migraines, scientists say. A study found those with a body mass index of 30 or more had a 27 per cent greater risk of the crippling headaches. “As obesity and being underweight are potentially modifiable risk factors for migraine, awareness of these risk factors is vital for both …

Bed bugs are developing a resistance to common insecticides and it’s making them much harder to kill, a new study says. According to scientists at Purdue University, bed bugs have already shown resistance to several other insecticides, including the commonly-used deltamethrin. However, bifenthrin and chlorfenapyr can now be added onto that growing list. In a study to be published next …

Comedian Charlie Murphy, star of Chappelle’s Show and older brother of Eddie Murphy, has died at the age of 57. The stand-up performer died on Wednesday in New York of leukaemia, his spokesman confirmed. A statement from the Murphy family read: “Our hearts are heavy with the loss today of our son, brother, father, uncle and friend Charlie. “Charlie filled …

50 Cent has reportedly been filmed ‘punching’ a female fan in the chest during a gig in Baltimore. TMZ shared the footage from the gig on Saturday, which showed 50 Cent performing with The LOX during their joint tour in Baltimore.

After Apple hit Qualcomm with a barrage of lawsuits earlier this year, the chip maker is countersuing Apple right back. Qualcomm today filed its Answers and Counterclaims to Apple’s January lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of California. The full details of the suit can be read in a 139-page document (PDF) released by Qualcomm, but the company has five …

Exercise enthusiasts often wonder whether it’s better to eat or fast before a workout. A new study is the first of its kind to show the effects of eating versus fasting on gene expression in adipose (fat) tissue in response to exercise. This study highlights the different roles fat plays in powering and responding to exercise. The study is published …

A sharp rise in infections stemming from a parasitic worm that invades the human brain has health officials in the Hawaiian island of Maui worried. “It’s like having a slow-moving bullet go through your brain,” state epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park says, explaining the effects of rat lungworm disease. According to ABC News, the worm lives in the lungs of rats, …

Nvidia, a company that design and develops graphics processing units has just launched its flagship product called the TITAN Xp. A version of the Titan X which comes with a fully-enabled GP102 Pascal GPU for a total of 3840 CUDA cores. Sharing the same DNA as the earlier available Titan X, the new Titan Xp Uses a slightly beefier fully-enabled …

Body weight plays a significant role in how much benefit children may get from consuming “good” fats, new study suggests. The scientists compared fatty acid uptake after kids took a supplement to both overall body weight and body-mass index. The more a child weighed, the smaller the measurement was of two key omega-3 fatty acids in their bloodstream. And the …

Canadian billionaire and Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz has been accused of luring Brazilian model and actress Greice Santo into hotel rooms on multiple occasions and offering her money for sex, according to documents filed in a recent lawsuit. According to Variety, the allegations first surfaced when Santo’s husband, R.J. Cipriani, filed a defamation suit against a crisis consulting firm …