A 12-year-old girl whose story touched people around the world has died from traumatic brain injuries, 16 days after her bike accident. Molly Steinsapir, was critically injured on January 31 and had been undergoing treatment in LA. Her mother Kaye Steinsapir had been updating her condition with thousands of people...
A man who was caught on video in a violent altercation with TTC special constables on a streetcar on Friday has been charged, Toronto police say. The incident happened on-board a streetcar on the 501 Queen route, near River Street, shortly before 8 a.m. In the 12-second video posted on Twitter,...
Guy Ritchie has been banned from driving for six months after being caught texting at the wheel by a popular YouTuber. The Snatch director was driving near Hyde Park when he was spotted by cyclist Mike van Erp, who films drivers he spots breaking the law and then uploads the...
According to a CBC News report, a ground-penetrating radar survey at Fort Anne, a star-shaped fort that was built on the Annapolis River in the eighteenth century, detected anomalies that could be traces of an earlier Acadian cemetery. Parks Canada site manager Ted Dolan said the Acadians were French...
An egging prank ended with a murder charge after a New Year’s Day tragedy near Houston. Police say a 14-year-old male driver and two teenage passengers were inside a GMC Acadia Tuesday afternoon, throwing eggs at cars driving by on a road in Aldine, when the driver of one of...
In another stellar win for the Trump administration, today the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists pushed the Doomsday Clock forward to 2 minutes from midnight. The last time the Bulletin got this grim was in 1953, after the US and USSR tested their first hydrogen bombs. What’s the Doomsday Clock? Since...
Santander is to close 140 branches, putting 1,270 jobs at risk, the bank announced on Wednesday. The company is in talks with unions to try to find new roles for staff affected where possible and said it expects a third to be redeployed. Customers will be supported in finding alternative branches...
Indian-American Rahul Dubey emerged as an overnight hero in the US after he sheltered nearly 70 protesters in his house in Washington D.C. Monday night. The US has witnessed violent protests in the past week, after the death of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis. The African-American man died after a...
The Los Angeles Fire Department has released harrowing audio from multiple 911 calls from those who witnessed the tragic helicopter crash which killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant. Bryant, 41, and 13-year-old daughter Gianna were amongst the nine passengers killed when the Sikorsky S-76B they were travelling on crashed into a...
Airbnb will ban “party houses” after a deadly shooting at a California home that had been rented through the service. In a series of tweets on Saturday, Airbnb’s CEO Brian Chesky, said the company would take steps to “combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct.” The...