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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit has released its report on the Remington Park Cancer Cluster investigation and the common risk factor identified among all surveyed individuals was exposure to tobacco smoke. Officials studied the ‘cancer cluster’ located in a part of Remington Park in Windsor after the rate of new lung cancer cases between 2000 and 2009 was 2.2 times …

Isabelle Dinoire has died 11 years after receiving a new mouth, nose, and chin in the world’s first partial face transplant. In 2005, Professor Bernard Devauchelle and Dr Jean-Michel Dubernard attached a graft of the nose, lips and chin of a brain-dead donor to replace parts of her destroyed face. According to reports in France, Dinoire, from Valenciennes, became seriously …

Danny Heinrich confesses to Jacob Wetterling’s murder. On Tuesday, Danny Heinrich pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography before telling the court in detail how he kidnapped and killed the 11-year-old boy.

Nicki Minaj is back with a brand new freestyle track and it is gloriously bonkers. The Cincinnati Zoo gorilla, shot dead in May, has found a second life as an internet meme – but rapper Nicki Minaj isn’t impressed. She’s just released a new song ‘The Pinkprint Freestyle’ in which, amongst a number of crude rhymes, she takes aim at …

Sylvester Stallone has laughed off rumours that he had died, following a hoax report circulating on social media. The article, which was widely shared on social media, announced “Stallone is found dead” and featured a CNN banner head. Prescription pills were also falsely reported to be found “at the scene” of the Rocky star’s death.

Cyberpunk 2077, the upcoming sci-fi RPG developed by CD Projekt Red, is a particularly ambitious project. This ambition is confirmed by the fact that the project is so large in scale that there are many more developers involved in its creation than there were during the most intense month of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s development. Considering that the esteemed …

Pokémon Go might be losing some steam, but the smash-hit mobile game is still popular enough for Google Maps to add a dedicated ‘Catching Pokémon’ activity option in Timeline. The addition was pointed out by Reddit user GoldLeader272, who noticed it on the Timeline feature of Google Maps’..

A study led by scientists at the University of British Columbia has uncovered distinct patterns with the DNA of children diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. “We’re entering into a new era where having insights into what’s going on behind these neurodevelopment disabilities, and FASD in particular, isn’t a matter of us throwing up our hands and saying there’s nothing …

A Canadian woman turned the tables on phone scammers with a brilliant acting performance. Dawn Belmonte got a voicemail from an 866 number known to be used by scammers, so she called back. The scammers told her she owed $2,500 or would face arrest. Belmonte posted a video she recorded of a telephone scammer attempting to con her. Within four …

A good-spirited Leslie Jones has made a comeback on Twitter after trolls bullied and hacked her account. “I love Golden Girls!” the “Saturday Night Live” and “Ghostbusters” star, who turns 49 on Wednesday, tweeted Saturday, uploading a video clip of the opening of the 1985-1992 NBC comedy hit “The Golden Girls,” starring Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, Betty White and Rue …

MICHAEL Jackson fans are convinced the King of Pop is still alive after he was ‘pictured’ in a selfie with daughter. The music legend passed away over seven years ago, but some fans are having trouble accepting his death to be true. In fact, more than a few believe that his daughter, Paris Jackson, holds the key to the truth. …