Newfoundland’s healthy honeybees are of increasing interest for scientists in the race to understand why colonies around the world are struggling. Dave Jennings of the provincial natural resources department says the island is one of the few places left on the planet free of rampant bee parasites.

A Red Sox ball girl said “I’ll probably get fired” to fans after she accidentally grabbed a line drive during the Red Sox-Royals game on Friday. “And Hosmer pulls it fair!” The announcer says. “And… it’s handled by the ball girl?”

A four year old boy was mauled to death by his uncle’s two pit bull dogs. Logan Shephard died after being savaged by the dogs in the front garden. Two police officers conducting a traffic stop 100 yards away heard screams for help and ran to the home in Riverview, Florida.

About 2,400 of the 2,500 residents displaced by a wildfire near West Kelowna, B.C. were allowed to return home Sunday, but were cautioned to be ready to leave at a moments notice.

A scary moment this morning for passengers on a Air Canada flight from Edmonton to Toronto. Global News reports that an emergency was declared on Air Canada flight 1174 to Toronto after a flight control indication light came on.

Meteor reports stream in after a huge fireball is sighted in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Reports came in fast and furious to the American Meteor Society’s “Fireball Page,” which tracks citizen sightings of meteors. Many of the reports read like this one from Peter in Chester: “It was the brightest I’ve ever seen. I even heard a …

Scientists led by an Indian-origin professor have successfully used a new and potentially safer method to stimulate ovulation in women undergoing fertility treatment. Twelve babies have been born after their mothers were given an injection of the natural hormone kisspeptin to make their eggs mature.

Canada has joined other counties in demanding that pro-Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine withdraw from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 to allow for an “unimpeded and international investigation” into the facts surrounding the passenger plane that was shot down earlier this week.

A 5-year-old boy who is battling cancer only wants a mailbox full of birthday cards for his birthday. Danny Nickerson, who lives in Massachusetts, will turn six on July 25. Last October, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. It is one of the most chemotherapy-resistant cancers.

Antiretroviral therapy taken by uninfected women to prevent HIV transmission from infected male partners did not cause significant fetal harm or add risk to normal pregnancy, researchers reported here. There was no statistically significant association between women receiving pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and those receiving placebo and the occurrence of pregnancy losses, reported lead author Nelly Mugo, MBChB, MPH, an HIV …

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton promised a full and thorough investigation into the death of Eric Garner, who died while cops tried to arrest him in Tompkinsville on Thursday. “I’d like to offer my deepest condolences to family and friends of Eric Garner,” de Blasio said during a press conference Friday at City Hall. “It’s a …