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The B.C. Centre for Disease Control has issued a warning about a spike in gastrointestinal illness associated with eating oysters. Since early December, over 70 cases of oyster-related illness have been reported to B.C. health authorities. “Testing in several of the cases confirmed the presence of norovirus, and we suspect norovirus in the others,” says Dr. Eleni Galanis, an epidemiologist …

A newborn kidnapped from a hospital in Florida in 1998 has been found safe in South Carolina – and the woman who posed as her mother for nearly two decades has been arrested, authorities said Friday. Acting on recent tips, JSO cold-case detectives traveled to Walterboro, South Carolina, and found an 18-year-old woman with a matching birth date to Kamiyah …

Peter Thiel says Apple is past its peak. Here’s what he said in a Q&A with Maureen Dowd of The New York Times when he was asked to confirm or deny that “the age of Apple is over”: “Confirm. We know what a smartphone looks like and does. It’s not the fault of Tim Cook, but it’s not an area …

Luke and Hillary Gardner welcomed their son, Cade Lee, into the world in Baldwyn, Mississippi on December 18th. Which just happened to be both of their birthdays. Luke, Hillary and Cade Lee all share December 18th as a birthday. Granted, Cade Lee is 27 years older than his Mom and Dad. And if you want to be exact, Hillary is …

If your Facebook battery usage has been especially bad recently, it has apparently been fixed server-side. Facebook this week issued a server-side fix to a bug in its Messenger app that rapidly depleted some Android users’ batteries. This, after several users complained on Twitter and Reddit that it seemed like a recent code change was impacting battery life.

NEW medical study by researchers at Harvard Medical School proves what most of us have always suspected — stress can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Stress has long been associated with a range of health problems, but the study is the first to demonstrate a link between stress responses in the brain and an increased risk of cardiovascular …

Video footage of a 12-year-old girl taking her own life that was streamed and shared online and police in the United States say they are powerless to take it down. Katelyn Nicole Davis live-streamed the moment she hung herself in the front yard of her home in Cedartown, Georgia. She claimed she had been sexually abused by a family member …

The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has today announced its predictions for the technology sector in 2017. According to new research by Deloitte and reported by the FT, these sales, which include new turntables and accessories, contribute 7% to the $15 billion that the global music market is expected to reel in. Paul …

Two bomb blasts near the parliament building in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, have killed at least 30 people and injured at least 70. Taliban insurgents immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings, which struck as employees were exiting the parliament complex. “The first explosion happened outside the parliament … a number of innocent workers were killed and wounded. It was caused by …

Iranians, who took part in the funeral procession of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Tehran yesterday, chanted “Death to Russia” and accused its embassy of being an espionage hub, Arabi 21 reported. Authorities were forced to raise the volume on the loudspeakers playing lamentation songs after some in the crowds took up cries of “Oh, Hussein, Mir …

Eric Bramwell was sentenced to 22 years in prison for stealing a universal television remote from an apartment complex in Wheaton, Illinois. Eric Bramwell, 35, was found guilty of burglary in November for stealing a universal remote control from the common area of an apartment building in Wheaton, Illinois. On Wednesday, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison. It …