The unmanned Dragon capsule from the private US firm SpaceX successfully reached the International Space Station Sunday, its third trip carrying supplies and equipment to the orbiting lab. NASA television broadcast live images of the ISS’s 17.6 meter (57.7 foot) long robotic arm as it grabbed hold of the gumdrop-shaped capsule on schedule at 11:14 GMT. “Capture complete, congratulations to ... Read More »
Nearly 100,000 pounds of hot dogs are being recalled because they may have incorrect labels on the packages. Federal food inspectors say the Oscar Mayer Classic Wieners packages may have cheese dogs in some of them, but the labels don’t include milk as an ingredient. Kraft is voluntarily recalling about 96,000 pounds of hot dogs just to be safe. Read More »
More than 250,000 crown-of-thorns starfish have been removed from the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland in the past two years, Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt says. The pest is considered to be one of the biggest threats to the reef and has traditionally been hard to destroy. In recent decades, the crown-of-thorns starfish has been responsible for 42 per cent ... Read More »
Edmonton’s second confirmed case of measles is prompting warnings to passengers and crew arriving on a recent Air Canada flight and people who were in the airport at the time. The latest measles case in the Edmonton area involves a child who flew to Edmonton from the Philippines via Vancouver, said Marcia Johnson, Edmonton Zone Medical Officer of Health. Read More »
Staff at the Federal Fisheries Department say it appears a species of mussel not ever seen before in Canadian waters must have drifted across the Pacific amid debris from the powerful Japanese tsunami – and came to rest in BC waters. Read More »
The Food and Drug Administration is warning women that a surgical procedure used to eliminate growths in the uterus could inadvertently spread cancer to other parts of the body. The agency is discouraging doctors from performing the procedure, which uses an electronic device to grind and shred uterine tissue so it can be removed through a small incision in the ... Read More »
A little boy goes out exploring near his Michigan home and ends up making a prehistoric find! The nine-year-old stumbled across the tooth of a mastodon in a creek by his house. Mastodons were an elephant-like beast that roamed North America 10,000 years ago. Read More »
Santa Monica personal trainer Sara Haley, one of the nation’s leading fitness trainers according to Shape, faces insults and glares from fellow gym-goers for maintaining her workout routine while 35 weeks pregnant, according to NYDN. Some people just stare and whisper to one another, she says, but some go further, making comments such as, “Wow, those are the worst stretch ... Read More »
The death toll from the sunken South Korean ferry has rose to 108 on the sixth day of the search operations. Dozens of bodies were retrieved over the last two days, but 190 remain missing, Euronews reported. Many of the victims were children, travelling on a school trip to the resort island Jeju. Read More »
Uma Thurman is thought to have separated from multi-millionaire fiancé Arpad Busson after an on-off relationship lasting seven years. Throughout their engagement the duo have lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with the Kill Bill actress based in New York and her partner in London. Sightings of them together have been few and far between since last year, reports ... Read More »
Frozen has become the most commercially successful animated feature in history. Frozen has become the highest-grossing animated film ever made. Four months and two Academy Awards after its release, Frozen has officially surpassed Toy Story 3 as the top-grossing animated film to date. This makes it the first billion-dollar movie to come out of Disney Animation Studios. I’d say that’s ... Read More »
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