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A Sumatran tiger has killed a keeper at a zoo in Poland – the day before it was due to host an international conference of zoo directors. The tragedy occurred in the morning hours on Wednesday during a routine cleaning of the enclosure and the cages.

Seismologists have downgraded the magnitude of a light earthquake that jolted the Big Bear Lake area of the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California. The quake’s magnitude was downgraded after a preliminary report of 4.5.

Vicki Gardner, the woman who survived a shooting while being interviewed on WDBJ, says she feared she was going to be shot in the head. Vicki Gardner detailed her memory of the shooting to Fox News host Greta Van Susteren in an interview that aired Tuesday night on “On The Record.”

A 15-year-old girl has been jailed for murdering her mother after becoming obsessed with Isis beheading videos. Court heard how Lisa Borch had planned to join the radical terror group with her 29-year-old Iraqi-born boyfriend, but her mother had been trying to break the couple up.

Women with diabetes have around a 40% increased risk of suffering a heart attack compared with diabetic men, two studies have suggested. Those aged 45 to 84 have a significantly higher chance of heart attack, one study found, with the risk largest between the ages of 45 and 54. Separate research found that women with diabetes of any age were …

Older adults with low vitamin D levels may lose their memories and thinking abilities faster than those with normal vitamin D levels. Scientists found that low levels of the vitamin doubled or even tripled the rate of cognitive decline in 382 men and women over the age of 60. A majority, 61%, had insufficient vitamin D in their blood.

Spending More Time Outside May Slow Kids’ Myopia Progression. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined the effect of 40 minutes of additional outside activity daily on the eyesight of Grade 1 primary school children in China.

Fast-food giants Burger King, Domino’s and Wendy’s got failing grades in a consumer report card released Tuesday that ranks the nation’s largest food chains in their effort to eliminate the use of antibiotics in meat. Antibiotic resistance is one of the top five health threats facing Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than …

Blake Lively is awesome, this we know. But somehow, she got accused of throwing shade at Taylor Swift when she made a funny on Instagram. After innocuously referring to T-Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video in an Instagram caption over the weekend, Blake Lively began to feel the social media wrath of Swifties worried their idol had been shaded. But this …

Unruly passenger on American Airlines removed after kissing, then punching, crew. American Airlines Flight 1284 departed Miami just a few minutes past its scheduled departure, according to online data, but about an hour from the flight’s Chicago destination, the pilot got on the loudspeaker, passenger Jim Saviano of Los Angeles and Las Vegas told USA TODAY.

Writing an obscene phrase on a speeding ticket payment form is speech protected by the First Amendment and shouldn’t send the person who wrote it to jail, a federal judge has ruled. The ruling represents an important victory for free speech rights, lawyers in the case said Tuesday. Willian Barboza was pulled over in 2012 for speeding in Liberty. He …