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Former Ottawa man killed in Libya was not an extremist, spokesman says: ‘He was absolutely normal’
TORONTO — A former Ottawa resident killed in clashes in Benghazi was inside a building hit by a crude barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to a Libyan general, a spokesman for a Canadian-Libyan group said Monday. “Apparently a bomb fell on that building and the building collapsed on them,” said Khaled...
35 Incredibly Rare Celebrity Photographs That You Haven’t Seen Before
Here are 25 incredibly rare celebrity photographs that you most likely haven't seen before. Muhammad Ali with his daughters. Chicago 1971 Guinness family. United States, 1963 Leonardo DiCaprio and his teddy bear Denise Richards, 1990. Monica Bellucci Kate Beckinsale Eva...
Total solar eclipse to sweep across Indonesia
Skygazers and astronomy lovers are flocking to Indonesia ahead of a rare total solar eclipse. The phenomenon, which occurs when the moon moves directly between the earth and sun, begins at 6:20 AM Wednesday, March 9 local time (5:20 p.m. ET Tuesday, March 8). According to NASA, the moon will black out the sun over...
Toronto boxer among two Canadians killed in Dubai Ferrari crash that took the lives of four people
Soon after arriving in Dubai a few days ago, Cody Nixon couldn’t resist mugging for the camera in his rental car, a low-slung, open-roof Ferrari. “Just landed into Dubai picked up the Ferrari! Don’t worry I won’t speed ;)” he wrote on Instagram. Nixon, 24, was travelling with his good buddy and...
EU and Turkey agree on refugee crisis proposal
Turkey and the European Union have reached agreement on key points of a proposal to handle the overflow of refugees, according to a tweet for the spokesman of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. "Deal. Breakthrough with Turkey," read the tweet from Martin Selmayr. The proposal still needs formal...
2,000 weapons found on fishing boat
An Australian naval ship has seized a large arms cache that may have come from Iran and headed to Yemen by way of Somalia. The Australian Navy said that one of its ships patrolling the region, the HMAS Darwin, intercepted a small, stateless fishing vessel about 170 nautical miles off the coast of Oman when it made the...
Don’t you hate it when tobacco family fortunes get wasted on the fiscally responsible?
At 19 years old, Alexandra Andresen is the world’s youngest billionaire with a fortune estimated to be worth $1.2 billion… and apparently, pretty much all she does with that money is ride horses competitively. Along with her older sister Katharina, Alexandra shares a 44.2% stake in investment company Ferd, which...
Maria Sharapova admits to failing drug test, will be provisionally banned
Maria Sharapova, who has long been the world's richest female athlete, will be suspended from tennis after she admitted to failing a drug test at the Australian Open in January. A sombre looking Sharapova, speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles Monday, said she'd been taking the drug, meldonium, since 2006 and...
You’ll never guess what Dallas beauty Victoria Principal looks like now…
IT HAS been a staggering 38 years since Victoria Principal first stepped foot on Southfork Ranch as Pamela Barnes Ewing in huge CBS drama, Dallas. The actress was 27 when her on-screen alter-ego married the loveable Bobby Ewing in secret, before going on to be one of the most recognised TV couples ever. However, fast forward...
U.S. military spending millions to make cyborgs a reality
Washington. The U.S. military is spending millions on an advanced implant that would allow a human brain to communicate directly with computers. If it succeeds, cyborgs will be a reality. The Pentagon's research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), hopes the implant will allow humans to directly...
Two years, few answers: Will MH370 mystery ever be solved?
Two years after MH370 went missing and key questions remain unanswered: Where is the plane and what happened in the cockpit in the early hours of March 8, 2014? Amid the conspiracy theories, there are two main views on what might have happened. The first suggests that the captain hijacked the plane and flew it with all 238...
How Bollywood took Hollywood
Hollywood increasingly wants Indian stars on screen. Pay is another matter. Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra has plenty of experience of red carpets but this weekend was different. Rather than the usual gala premieres, she posed for hundreds of flashing cameras outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood before presenting a golden...