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The fired employee who allegedly beheaded a female co-worker and stabbed another woman warned that ‘Sharia law is coming’ on Facebook, it was today revealed.

Investigators found “alarming and shocking” conditions at a Vancouver Island pharmacy ordered to close Friday over unsanitary handling of human placenta being prepared for consumption, said a spokesman for the College of Pharmacists of B.C.

Iraq’s prime minister said Thursday that captive militants for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) told his intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris.

Cara Delevingne finds it hard to be friends with guys. The 22-year-old model has a large group of female pals – including Rihanna, Rita Ora and Georgia May Jagger – and prefers to be in their company because men just want to sleep with her. Speaking to the Best of Beauty edition of Allure magazine – for which she posed …

A new study published in the Northwestern University Health Psychology journal suggests people who regularly exercise drink more alcohol afterward.

The number of Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than 3,000, the European Union’s Anti-Terrorism Chief Gilles de Kerchove has told TV reporters. Even worse, De Kerchove warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of retaliatory attacks in Europe.

Ashraf Ghani won Afghanistan’s disputed presidential election decisively with 55 percent of the vote, results revealed yesterday, after the figure was kept secret for five days over concerns that fraud allegations could trigger violence.

Pfizer Inc. (PFE:US)’s Xalkori for advanced lung cancer shrunk tumors in those with a rare genetic mutation, according to a study that may provide the first targeted treatment for these patients. Xalkori reduced the size of tumors in 36 of 50 patients in the study while halting tumor growth in another nine, according to company-funded research released today at the …

A Japanese chef has written a recipe book called ‘Condoms Meals I Want To Make For You’. Thankfully, Kyosuke Kagami uses condoms as a cooking device, rather than suggesting you eat them.

A coalition of health policy academics and clinicians believe commercial interests and the generation of profits will take over the future integrity of what they call the Health Internet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to launch health-related generic top-level domains such as .health and .doctor.

McDonald’s corporate headquarters was evacuated Friday morning after authorities were notified about a suspicious package at the building in west suburban Oak Brook.