Actress Katie Holmes is showing off her sexy side by going topless for a new magazine photoshoot. The Batman Begins star, who is known for her more conservative fashion sense, is featured posing seductively on the cover of Glamour, wearing a pair of jeans and a denim shirt, which is unbuttoned down to her breasts.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster has starred in a second video for The Luka State. The Game of Thrones star recently featured in the band’s video for their single ’30 Minute Break’. He has continued his collaboration with the Cheshire band by appearing in their latest video ‘Rain’.

A STUDY out of the Netherlands has found a correlation between declines in farmland bird populations and use of neonicotinoid pesticides. The analysis, reported in the journal Nature indicates that pesticide use may reduce the amount of prey available to birds, and suggests that neonicotinoids pose an even greater risk to wildlife than previously anticipated. Nature reports although recent studies …

Another tech bites the dust. Samsung announced last week that it would end its plasma TV business because of “change in market demands.” This follows Panasonic’s announcement last year that it also would cease plasma production. LG, the last major producer of plasma televisions, is also slated to stop. The last shipments of plasma TVs in the U.S. will happen …

The inner ear of a 100,000-year- old fossilized early human skull found 35 years ago in northern China displays characteristics long thought to occur only in Neanderthals, who prospered across Europe and western Asia from roughly 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, according to a study out Monday.

Some whale experts are trying to figure out what to do with the remains of a 14-metre fin whale that was found along the shores of Port Hastings, N.S. last week. The whale is now beached just a few hundred metres from the Canso Causeway’s swing bridge, and a group from the Marine Animal Rescue Society has travelled to Port …

For whale enthusiasts in British Columbia and Washington Springer (A73), a member of B.C.’s A4 pod of northern resident killer whales, is a household name. She made headlines in 2002 after becoming orphaned at two-years-old and was found sick and alone near Seattle, hundreds of kilometres from home. A few months later Springer was successfully rescued, rehabilitated and released back …

Postoperative antibiotics did not appear to lower the risk for infection in patients who underwent cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis, according to a report published in JAMA. According to the scientists, acute calculous cholecystitis is the third most frequent cause of emergency admissions to surgical wards, and approximately 750,000 cholecystectomies are performed each year in the United States.

A US man died while competing in a hot-dog eating contest held at a Fourth of July event in South Dakota. Walter Eagle Tail, 47, from the city of Custer, chocked to death, as he was trying to beat his five opponents in the speed-eating competition.

A University of Colorado Boulder-led team working in British Columbia has discovered a 52-million-year-old fossil remains of possibly the tiniest hedgehog species ever: Silvacola acares. The hedgehog’s scientific name means “tiny forest dweller,” said CU-Boulder Associate Professor Jaelyn Eberle of the geological sciences department, lead author on the study. The creature – a new genus and species to science – …

A 2-year-old amputee from New Jersey received an outpouring of support after a video of him learning to walk was viewed by thousands of people. Kayden Elijah Kinckle could be heard saying “I got it” as he held a walker and took several steps in a video posted by his mother on July 4, YouTube user Nikki Sessoms.