Giant burning TV log sends Regina fire crews scrambling

The Regina Fire Department has stopped fuming about a burning Yule log displayed at Mosaic Stadium's giant TV screens, now that the football club has agreed to change the video. For weeks, the cheery image of the burning log was displayed on the video...

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Inmate robbed bank within hour of release, police say

Eugene, Ore., authorities are accusing a man of robbing a bank less than an hour after being released from jail as part of a budget measure. The Register-Guard newspaper reported that Eugene police arrested 33-year-old Christopher Franklin Weaver shortly...

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Teen Two and a Half Men actor sorry for criticism

Teen actor Angus T. Jones has apologized for blasting his TV comedy Two and a Half Men as "filth" and "inappropriate" in a series of interviews about his recent religious awakening. Jones, 19, issued a statement late Tuesday apologizing to his colleagues...

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'Pac-Man' spotted on Saturn's moons

Pop culture references continue to pop up on the subject of Saturn's moons, where scientists have spotted — not once, but twice — what appears to be the videogame character Pac-Man. The Cassini-Huygens probe turned up the distinct image while reading...

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Dirt from Justin Bieber's hometown hits eBay

[View the story "Dirt from Justin Bieber's hometown for sale on Ebay" on Storify] Storified by CBC News Community · Tue, Nov 27 2012 14:13:53 Imgur A jar of dirt from Stratford, Ontario is the talk of Twitter today thanks to one enterprising Canadian...

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'Egyptian Popeye' elicits awe, suspicion with 31-inch arms

Don't tell Popeye. It turns out you don't need to eat your spinach to get the world's biggest arms. Bodybuilder Moustafa Ismail eats three kilograms of protein and four kilograms of carbohydrates and drinks 11 litres of water each day to help maintain...

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Thai inmates dance to Gangnam Style

The K-pop hit that recently became the most-watched music video ever on YouTube has caught on in a Thai prison. Seventy inmates at the Bangkok Remand Prison took part in a Gangnam Style competition Tuesday, wearing colourful wigs and makeup as they...

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Chinese newspaper falls for The Onion's 'sexiest man alive' nod to Kim Jong-un

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PSY's Gangnam Style breaks YouTube's record

South Korean rapper PSY's Gangnam Style has become YouTube's most viewed video of all time. YouTube says in a posting on its Trends blog that Gangnam Style had been viewed 805 million times as of Saturday afternoon, surpassing Justin Bieber's Baby,...

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'Milking' video goes viral

Step aside planking, as a new — albeit messier — internet fad is gaining ground. Milking is simple: Buy a jug of milk, go out in public and record as you pour the milk over your head. Last week, some Newcastle University students from the U.K. posted...

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San Francisco approves 220-square-foot micro apartments

This artist's concept released by shows a 300 square-foot apartment proposed for San Francisco. A change to the city's building code will allow new apartments to be as small as 220 square feet. (AP Photo/Panoramic Interests)How much living space would...

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Justin Bieber receives Diamond Jubilee medal from Harper

[View the story "Canadian Prime Minister presents Justin Bieber with medal" on Storify] Storified by CBC News Community · Fri, Nov 23 2012 17:28:05 Staticflickr Stephen Harper is the envy of Justin Bieber fans around the world right now and may...

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San Francisco approves 220-square-foot micro apartments

This artist's concept released by shows a 300 square-foot apartment proposed for San Francisco. A change to the city's building code will allow new apartments to be as small as 220 square feet. (AP Photo/Panoramic Interests)How much living space would...

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Justin Bieber receives Diamond Jubilee medal from Harper

[View the story "Canadian Prime Minister presents Justin Bieber with medal" on Storify] Storified by CBC News Community · Fri, Nov 23 2012 17:28:05 Staticflickr Stephen Harper is the envy of Justin Bieber fans around the world right now and may...

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Humane society discounts black animals 50% for Black Friday

The humane society in Windsor, Ont. is joining the Black Friday fever by discounting dogs, cats and rabbits, but only the black ones. The Windsor-Essex County Humane Society said there is a "Black Animal Syndrome" and will slash the adoption fee by...

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Missing island may have been caused by digitizing error

A Pacific island that seems to have disappeared from the Coral Sea between Australia and New Caledonia may simply have been created by human error in the first place, a scientist says. Sandy Island, which is seen on numerous maps, nautical charts and...

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Former Price is Right model awarded $7.7M in damages

The producers of The Price is Right owe a former model on the television game show more than $7.7 million US in punitive damages for discriminating against her after a pregnancy, a jury has decided. The judgment released Wednesday came one day after...

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Heroes of Science action figures get brainiacs buzzing

[View the story "Heroes of Science action figures get brainiacs buzzing" on Storify] Storified by CBC News Community · Wed, Nov 21 2012 13:51:40 Imgur They can't morph into machines, crush rocks withtheir fists or travel through time (yet), but...

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Anthony Hopkins slams Oscar race as 'disgusting'

Critics predict Sir Anthony Hopkins will be nominated for an Oscar this year, but the legendary actor could care less about the academy. (Getty Images) With the Oscar race now underway, Hollywood types are working hard to secure their own Academy Award...

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U.S. college basketball player scores 138 points

After a poor shooting weekend, Grinnell point guard Jack Taylor was given the green light to shoot his way out of a slump. It only took 108 shots for Taylor to make a mockery of the college basketball record books. Taylor scored 138 points to shatter...

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Obama pulls 'not impressed' face with Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney

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72-year-old grandpa models for teen-girl fashion line

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Stephen Colbert unveils wax figure at Madame Tussauds

Comedian Stephen Colbert is taking his place among the presidents at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Washington and will be featured in a new media gallery. Colbert visited the museum Friday to unveil a wax figure created to represent him. The museum...

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Bieber wins artist of the year at American Music Awards

America proved its Bieber Fever was strong: The teen singer dominated the American Music Awards on Sunday night. Bieber's wins included the show's top award, artist of the year. His mom joined him onstage as he collected the trophy, beating out Rihanna,...

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Oliver Sacks looks at why we hallucinate

Oliver Sacks, the pioneering neurologist who has exposed the workings of the human brain in his popular books, turns to the subject of hallucinations in his latest title. Hallucinations, published this week, aims to defuse the stigma around the visions...

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105-year-old woman turns down preschool acceptance

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Oliver Sacks looks at why we hallucinate

Oliver Sacks, the pioneering neurologist who has exposed the workings of the human brain in his popular books, turns to the subject of hallucinations in his latest title. Hallucinations, published this week, aims to defuse the stigma around the visions...

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105-year-old woman turns down preschool acceptance

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Brazil to clone its endangered species

Brazilian researchers are turning to cloning to help fight the perilous decline of several animal species. The scientists at Brazil's Embrapa agriculture research agency said this week they have spent two years building a gene library with hundreds...

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Movember moustaches may hold hazards

Movember men may want to be extra cautious this month with the care and hygiene of their moustaches, because microbiologists have shown that facial hair is a bacterial sponge. It turns out that upper-lip scruff could be full of infectious bacteria,...

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Paul Martin featured as kid crime fighter in new book

A new book about former prime minister Paul Martin hits the shelves Thursday. But it's not what history and political buffs might expect to read about one Canada's most well known politicians. Showdown at Border Town: An Early Adventure of Paul Martin...

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Colbert attack on 'Earth's rectum' Windsor extends to Winnipeg, CBC

American comedian Stephen Colbert just can't seem to get off the back of Windsor, Ont., and now he has dragged Winnipeg and the CBC into his attack routine. On his satirical Comedy Central late-night show The Colbert Report, Colbert took aim at Ontario's...

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New Facebook relationship pages get thumbs down

[View the story "New Facebook relationship pages get thumbs down" on Storify] Storified by CBC News Community · Tue, Nov 13 2012 14:26:20 The introduction of Facebook's new, automatically-generated"us" URLs for couples has bloggers buzzing, with...

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Camera-toting bird spurs fish photo mystery

It sounds like a fish tale — a Saskatchewan woman came to the aid of water bird with a camera hanging around its neck ... only to discover numerous fish photos on the memory card. But it happened to Saskatoon's Karen Gwillim in September, as she was...

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Oxford says 'omnishambles' Word of the Year in Britain

Britain's media are in a meltdown and its government is gaffe-prone, so Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an apt Word of the Year: "omnishambles." Oxford University Press on Tuesday crowned the word — defined as "a situation that has been comprehensively...

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Taiwanese animators cast 'evil' Obama in Petraeus affair

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Coffee beans in danger of extinction

A cup of morning coffee could be much harder to find, and much more expensive, before the century is out thanks to climate change and the possible extinction of wild Arabica beans. That's the warning behind a new study by U.K. and Ethiopian researchers...

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50 Shades parody draws audiences of screaming women

Actors Alice Moran and Patrick Whalen are stars of SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody, which plays at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto this Wednesday to Sunday. (Paul Schnaittacher/Canadian Press) After heating up box offices in the U.S., a hit Canadian...

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Animal rights group PETA takes on Honey Boo Boo

Reality TV star Honey Boo Boo's new pet chicken has sprung PETA animal rights' activists into action. The six-year-old girl — a child beauty pageant participant, now famous for her so-called go go juice and "redneckognize" catch phrase — recently got...

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