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A week-and-a-bit ago, the internet’s favourite science guy, Bill Nye, took to the stage at the Creation Museum, in Kentucky, USA, and had a formal debate with pro-creationist, Ken Ham. 500 000 people tuned in on YouTube to watch the debate live, and the video’s had nearly 2-million views since then.

New dad Simon Cowell has shown off his Valentine’s Day baby boy to followers on Twitter – scroll down to see further pics. The proud pop posted a artistic black and white photo of himself, his two-day-old son Eric and mum Lauren Silverman lying on a bed together on Twitter on Sunday.

A man has miraculously escaped relatively unharmed after throwing himself into a tiger pen in a zoo, apparently in a bid to feed it. The man, identified as 20-year-old Yang Jinhai, was photographed by alarmed visitors at Chengdu Zoo climbing into the Bengal tiger enclosure on Sunday morning. He was reportedly upset that one of the tigers appeared to be …

Doctor Stephanie Arndt brought her horse Nasar into the house when Hurricane Xaver battered her town of Holt, Germany in late 2013. But the three-year-old Arabian horse has taken a liking to the indoors — you could say he’s made himself right at home.

A self-confessed teen Satanist accused of murdering a man in November admitted to killing the victim and 22 other “bad people” to a Pennsylvania newspaper reporter who interviewed her by phone at the Northumberland County Jail on Friday. Miranda Barbour, 19, told The Daily Item that she stabbed Troy LaFerrara, 42, of Port Trevorton, 20 times as her husband, Elytte …

A body found in the frigid waters of the Hudson River by police divers was positively identified as that of missing celebrity designer Michele Savoia. The body was recovered at 1:30 pm Sunday off of Chelsea Piers around 20 feet from the yacht Savoia called home, according to police.

The bodies of two skiers who were missing after an avalanche Saturday evening have been found. Seven people were involved in an avalanche on Star Mountain near Independence Pass. The site is about eight miles west of Twin Lakes Village and southwest of Leadville.

Authorities have found a 250-foot-long unfinished smuggling tunnel underneath the U.S.-Mexico border that had electricity, water pumps and ventilation. Chief Border Patrol Agent Randy Hill says the tunnel is more sophisticated than other recently discovered tunnels, saying that those who were building it chiseled through solid rock and installed lighting and other equipment.

An American citizen travelling from Chicago to London has found himself making an unplanned visit to the Gander lockup. Just after midnight Saturday night the Gander RCMP received a compliant from Gander International Airport that an American Airlines Boeing 777 en route from Chicago to London was making an emergency landing due to an unruly passenger.

Bruce Jenner and his increasingly growing hair will be sticking around on “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” according to matriarch Kris Jenner. Reports began circulating that the former Olympic athlete would be exiting the hit E! reality show’s future seasons on the network. However, Kris told E! News that Bruce will continue to film scenes for the show.

“Snake Salvation” reality star Pastor Jamie Coots died Saturday night after he was bitten by a snake, according to local police. Coots starred on “Snake Salvation” alongside Pastor Andrew Hamblin, from LaFollette, who was recently in court for TWRA citations for snake-handling. The National Geographic show profiled the Pentecostal, serpent handling preachers.