There's news out of Miami today concerning that darling of the media, Justin Drew Bieber. Bieber, 20, is scheduled to be in court in that city on May 5 on a D.U.I. charge and charges of resisting arrest and driving with an expired licence.

The 118th running of the Boston Marathon saw a great American city again shown its resilience in staging a great and fearless race. And in both the men's and women's divisions there was a significant positive event.

A 33-year-old woman from Hawaii, Jean Paleracio, has been given 20 years for having sex with an 11-year-old boy. The abuse began in 2009 and continued into 2013 and she videotaped many of the encounters. The boy was from a friend's family.

Air Canada has some explaining to do after a man posted a video of the airline's baggage handlers roughly throwing suitcases several metres down a staircase/ramp. The man was in a plane when he filmed it and he then posted it later on Youtube.

The U.S and Israel have been trying to put in place a visa waiver program that will allow Israelis to travel to the U.S as tourists for 90 days without having to apply for a visa.

A study from Wake Forest University in the U.S. shows the use of fitness trackers helps older people to lose weight. The researchers worked with 48 obese persons from 65 to 79 for ten months.

I'm not sure this is the most riveting piece of footage but it is one of the oddest results of a selfie you'll see. It's a video of a man, Jared Michael, posted on YouTube, getting kicked in the head as he attempts to take a selfie as a train passes by.

It may not be much to hope for but officials leading the efforts to rescue missing ferry passengers, most of them high-school students, are hoping "air pockets" in the sunken ship are keeping some alive. As many as 268 are still missing.

New York - On the eve of Thursday’s four-way talks which took place in Geneva, today, Russia again came in for flak at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council held yesterday, both from UN officials and a number of Western Ambassadors.

Jerusalem - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meeting US envoy Martin Indyk to try to find a way to extend faltering peace talks have failed to reach agreement, a Palestinian source told AFP.

On Saturday it will be six weeks since the disappearance of Malaysia flight MH370 but there is a chance it will be found by then. Searchers are buoyed in their belief they are close by an examination of pings heard to date conducted by the U.S. Navy.

Jerusalem - A planned meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators has been postponed for one day after violence in the West Bank and in Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority acknowledged Wednesday.

Washington - Negotiators for Israel and the Palestinian Authority plan to meet Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to save failing peace talks scheduled to expire at the end of April.

An American study on young people who use marijuana up to 4 times each week has found their brains show abnormalities that could indicate cognitive problems. The study was published in the Wednesday issue of the 'Journal of Neurosciences.'

A man was arrested Tuesday evening in the Boston Marathon finish area after dropping a backpack in the road. He told police it contained a "rice cooker" and was charged with possession of a "hoax device." His backpack was destroyed.

Calgary police have made an arrest after four young males and one female, late teens to early 20s, were stabbed to death at a house party in the city. Details are sketchy, but police say that the assailant fled the scene but they have captured him.

A new hepatitis C drug is being hailed as a "major breakthrough" by scientists and a "turning point" in the fight for a cure. The research was conducted in four countries and lead by scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

Jerusalem - Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Reyad al-Malki called for sanctions to be imposed on Israel for violating international law and conventions through moves to punish Palestine for unilaterally applying to join international agencies and treaties.

It has made dozens of news sites so it might as well make ours; Lady Gaga says she uses facelift tape around her eyes daily. She does it, she admits, to look younger, and because she enjoys the ritual of putting it on.

Jerusalem - The Israelis at first placed the blame for failure of peace talks to be extended on the Palestinians but now they are claiming it is the fault of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.