A hoard of Viking treasure has been unearthed by a metal-detecting enthusiast in what has been described as ‘one of the most significant finds of its kind ever made in Scotland’. The treasure is on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh at the Vikings exhibition, which runs until May. The hoard includes a solid silver cross thought …

A Sudanese medical official in his fifties who was working for the UN in Liberia has died of Ebola in a hospital in Leipzig, Germany. The UN employee from Liberia who was transported to Leipzig last week after contracting Ebola died overnight at St. Georg Hospital, according to the St Georg clinic.

A home in an upscale Weldon Spring neighborhood that has been overrun by brown recluse spiders is finally getting rid of the eight legged creatures. Crews have covered the house, which is located near Whitmoor Country Club, with a giant tent and pumped in poison gas to kill the spiders.

Police in Prince Albert are looking for any information after a body found in the North Saskatchewan River on the Thanksgiving long weekend.

Broccolli continues to be known as a superfood that holds essential nutrients. Yet recent findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveal that this vegetable could help to reduce symptoms associated with autism.

Greenpeace posted this Vine as part of their Cephalopod Week, showing a squid attacking a Greenpeace submarine during a Bering Sea expedition. The humongous squid sprays ink all around and almost appears to beat at the submarine.

Social media sensation Jessica Vanessa is making a living doing the dance move Miley Cyrus made famous. And it is really paying off. The 22-year-old from Florida quit her job as a teaching assistant to make Internet “twerking” videos full-time.

Human clinical trials of an experimental Canadian Ebola vaccine are underway, with officials saying that if successful the vaccine could be shipped to affected areas of West Africa within a few months.

Nobody is sure where Nigel the parrot has been for the past several years but he’s back with his owners in California. The British accent he left with when he vamoosed is gone. Now he’s speaking Spanish.

Ubisoft officially confirmed a PC version for Assassin’s Creed Rogue in a new trailer published Monday. PC fans who played Assassin’s Creed 3 and Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag will be able to discover the missing links between these two stories with Assassin’s Creed Rogue.

Mercy for Animals Canada has recorded inhumane treatment of pigs at a Canadian processing facility. Workers at Western Hog Exchange in Red Deer, Alberta were forcing animals to walk with electric prods and using bats to force pigs to move through crowded pens.