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Google is planning to appeal a ruling by the British Columbia Supreme Court ordering the search engine giant to erase certain results from internet searches around the world.

The legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado (just outside Denver) went on lockdown on Thursday night after a shooting left three people wounded.

Washington, DC: In public announcement issued this week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states it is requiring manufacturers to include a general warning in the drug labeling of all testosterone products about the risk of blood clots in the veins.

The federal government has announced more than $28 million in funding to support projects that prevent and reduce homelessness in Winnipeg.

The actress, who hit the “Free the Nipple” fundraiser at the Mondrian Los Angeles’s Skybar on Thursday, came to raise money for boobs. And what does one wear to a nipple-centered celebration? Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s oldest daughter donned a shirt emblazoned with three nipples of course!

Sheryl Crow made a fashion faux pas at the Happy Hearts Fund gala on Thursday. The singer walked the red carpet in a black sheer dress that exposed her white underwear underneath.

The government has officially added a costly medication to the Ontario drug benefit formulary. KALYDECO is a prescription medicine used for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF) in patients age 6 years and older who have one of the following mutations in their CF gene: G551D, G1244E, G1349D, G178R, G551S, S1251N, S1255P, S549N, or S549R, costs $300,000 a year.

People concerned about the risks of food poisoning are being urged to stop washing chicken before they cook it. More than two-fifths of cooks say they wash chicken as part of their food preparations, but the health experts have issued a call to the public to stop the practice.

A Brooklyn man who spent nearly 25 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit is now suing the city. Jonathan Fleming, 52, is seeking $162 million after being freed from prison in April. He says he was visiting Disney World back in 1989 when his friend Daryl Rush was shot and killed in Williamsburg.

A Pennsylvania woman was found dead in her cell June 7, halfway through a two-day sentence in Berks County Prison for unpaid debt. Eileen DiNino, 55, owed $2,000 in fines and court costs related to dozens of truancy violations her children racked up since 1999, the Associated Press reports.