A giant badger - at least some British schoolgirls report it as such - is running loose at the Folkestone School for Girls in Kent. The badger hasn't attacked anyone, per se, but has managed to be the focus of colorful stories and the occasional scream.

There are still two months before the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, is due to produce a Royal baby. Reports say it will be a boy and press in the U.K. say the little fella's birth will be the first Royal birth announced on Twitter.

We can't show you a picture of Laura Fernee because we do not have one and nor do we have permission to use existing photos of her. So we will link you to one. But let us begin by saying she is a good looking, dark-and-wavy-haired woman.

The U.S. Social Security Admin. has released the top baby name numbers for 2012 and for the 14th straight year Jacob is the most used baby boy name in the country. For girls there was also a repeat winner, but it's just the 2nd year in a row for Sophia.

As of this writing there remain 166 prisoners, referred to as 'detainees,' at Guantanamo Bay and it's not hard to do the math when it comes to costs. Running the facility sets back U.S. taxpayers, according to the Pentagon, $150 million annually.

While performing in Turkey on Thursday, Justin Bieber twice stopped his 'Believe' show so Muslims in the audience could heed their call to prayer, known as the Azan. More often even Muslim performers don't do so and his Turkish fans were grateful.

Vancouver - It's arguable journalism is in decline, though it's also arguable it never really had a heyday. It's hard to deliver good journalism, given the owners of the news are subject to greed and those same owners, and their reporters, etc. are subject to bias.

The mother of two small Kentucky children just stepped out of the house a moment, police said, but it was long enough for her 5-year-old boy to take a .22 caliber rifle he'd gotten for his birthday and shoot his 2-year-old sister.

Canadian researchers found women with breast implants who develop breast cancer have a higher risk of detection being delayed and much larger risk of dying from the disease. The study looked at data from other studies to draw their conclusions.

In what a veteran RCMP officer called the worst crash he has encountered in his career, 5 people, 2 of them kids, were killed when struck by a speeding vehicle at an intersection. The speeding driver of a Dodge Caravan survived in serious condition.

Italian and American companies, Micoperi and Titan Salvage, continue working on refloating the Costa Concordia. Last week the first of 30 giant 'boxes' was attached to a side of the doomed cruise ship.

In the aftermath of the terrible events at the Boston marathon last Monday, media has given the public a wild ride. Reporting on events was uneven as news organizations stumbled over themselves, and the facts, in filing stories.

A man identified by police as a Saudi Arabian national is being held in hospital as a suspect in the bombings that shook Boston during its annual marathon, the N.Y. Post said. The alleged suspect is reportedly injured.

A home in the Spanish town of San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands has locals buzzing. The abandoned home had thousands of wasps swarming out from it and when police investigated they were stung to find a wasp nest of biblical proportions.

Had you thought of it, you might have figured this day was coming - a veterinarian is treating dogs with THC. Not only that but California vet Dr. Doug Kramer seeks to have medical marijuana legalized for animals.

Hitting 40 is a milestone but when it comes to a rock and roll album hitting 40 it's more than that - it's a signal those around to buy it when it came out have aged indeed. That's the case with Led Zeppelin's classic 'Houses of the Holy'.

A special ceremony in Windsor Castle saw the Queen given a BAFTA award for her life-time support of the film industry in the U.K. on Wednesday evening. The 86-year-old monarch was also celebrated for her bravo cameo performance in a film..

RCMP in the Canadian province of Alberta say they are investigating an online ad from a pregnant woman offering to sell one of her unborn babies. The ad was placed on Kijiji, an online classifieds site by the 20-year-old on March 28.

Ex- Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has said that in the wake of the recent Jimmy Savile sex scandal he went to the police to talk about his past relationship with a 13-year-old. He was 47 when he began dating Mandy Smith.

A new study has found that weight loss may be achieved by introducing certain gut microbes to the stomach. The study found by taking microbes from mice who had gastric bypass surgery and putting them in mice who didn't, the latter mice lost weight.