A pair of Toronto teens sent a Lego man into space aboard a homemade weather balloon, capturing the plastic astronaut's adventure in an eye-catching video.

One man has been acquitted and another given 10 years in prison in connection with the beating death of Barrie teen Jordan Morrison at a resort in the Dominican Republic.

A Florida man has been charged with threatening the police chief who had been overseeing the investigation into the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by a neighbourhood watch captain.

Montreal's Habitat 67 has won an international competition among Lego enthusiasts, but the toy company says it won't make a version of the well-known landmark.