The women behind that confusing dress pic
Caitlin Mcneill first posted the picture of the dress which some see as white and others see as blue. She knows what colour it really is »
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Why people can't agree on the colour of this dress
It was a debate that took over the web and now Yahoo's David Pogue can explain why some see it as white and gold and others see black and blue.
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Rosie O'Donnell Files For Divorce
Rosie O'Donnell filed for divorce from her wife Michelle Rounds on Friday in New York, according to People. The former co-host of "The View" cited "an irretrievably broken relationship" as the cause of their divorce, according to the court papers obtained
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Kelly Osbourne Quits Fashion Police After Controversy, Giuliana Rancic Comments
Kelly Osbourne is turning in her badge as one of the Fashion Police. The star, 30, quit E!'s long-running style series on Friday, Feb. 27, amid controversy involving her co-host Giuliana Rancic, E! News confirms.
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Frozen Ocean: This "Slurpee" Wave in Nantucket Is Amazing
In so many ways this crazy deep freeze has been like bad joke — frozen Niagara Falls? Really? And now there’s a new phenomenon to gasp at: the Slurpee wave! Surfer and photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh captured this amazing picture of slushy waves in Nantucket
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Gunman kills 7, commits suicide in house-to-house rampage; mother's death may have set him off
A man who authorities say may have been unhinged by the death of his ailing mother killed seven people and then took his own life in a house-to-house shooting rampage that wiped out a swath of this tiny town in the Missouri Ozarks. Joseph Jesse Aldridge, 36, carried out the killings with a .45-calibre handgun Thursday night or early Friday at four homes in Tyrone, the no-stoplight community of about 50 people where he lived with his mother, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Joseph Aldridge was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound before dawn in a running pickup truck on the middle of a highway 15 or 20 miles away.
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Eye of the beholder: In rare photo, some see dress as black and blue, others as gold and white
Friends and co-workers worldwide are debating the true hues of a royal blue dress with black lace that, to many an eye, transforms in one photograph into gold and white. "This photo provides the best test I've ever seen for how the process of colour correction works in the brain,'" said Daniel Hardiman-McCartney, the clinical adviser to Britain's College of Optometrists.
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5 head-covering controversies in Canada
A Quebec judge told a woman in Montreal this week that she would not hear the case until the woman removed her hijab. Head coverings have been at the heart of several legal debates and controversies in Canada. When Baltej Singh Dhillon immigrated to Canada from Malaysia in 1983, he brought the beliefs and customs of his Sikh faith with him.
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Funeral held for second child dead from pesticide poisoning
For the second consecutive day, a Fort McMurray family poisoned by a toxic pesticide is burying a child. The funeral for two-year-old Zia Hassan was held Friday afternoon at the Al Rashid Mosque in Edmonton, one day after his baby sister was also laid to rest. "It’s brutal," said Taj Mohammad, who spoke for the family after the service.
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Steph Curry dominated Toronto basketball long before becoming NBA star
Over a decade before Steph Curry emerged as one of the NBA's biggest stars, he was showing off his skills as a youngster while living in Toronto. Steph's dad, Dell, played for the Raptors from 1999 to 2002 and enrolled his son at Queensway Christian College in Etobicoke for his Grade 8 year.
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Bobbi Kristina Brown's Boyfriend Nick Gordon Rages on Twitter Against Bobby Brown: "I'm the Reason Why My Baby Is Okay"
Nick Gordon took to his Twitter this week to express a range of emotions as his longtime love Bobbi Kristina Brown remains in a medically induced coma at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. This is not the first time that Gordon — who is under a criminal investigation after Bobbi Kristina was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub on Jan. 31 — has taken to social media to rail against the Brown family. On Monday, he wrote that his "only regret" in the entire situation was not getting to Bobbi Kristina sooner to give CPR.
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Saskatchewan thrift store workers share their wackiest finds
For Stacey Laing, owner of The Dress Form Vintage in Regina, it was a pair of teeth found in the pocket of a 1950s coat. Travis Zacharias, a co-manager of Village Green Thrift Shop in Saskatoon, has also come across a number of strange finds.
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STM bus driver refuses to lower ramp for woman with walker
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Jas Singh's God's Little Acre farm dropped by Food Banks B.C.
The organization's executive director Laura Lansink has penned an open letter to the public expressing its concerns, saying Singh has given food unfit for human consumption to some of the food banks. The Greater Vancouver Food Bank is the exception — Singh donated approximately 1,400 kilograms of mixed produce in 2014 and was also paid for 15,000 kilograms of carrots and potatoes.
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Prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov shot and killed in Moscow; was Putin critic
Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, just a day before a planned protest against the government. The death of Nemtsov, a 55-year-old former deputy prime minister, ignited a fury among opposition figures who assailed the Kremlin for creating an atmosphere of intolerance of any dissent and called the killing an assassination. Putin quickly offered his condolences and called the murder a provocation.
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Money Minute: Who should not get RRSPs
RRSP season always brings with it this unsettling fear that if you don’t have millions of dollars tucked away in some hidden box marked “retirement” you’re in trouble. “A lot of people end up freaking out and not doing anything about it because they think it’s hopeless,” says David Trahair, financial writer and accountant at David Trahair and Associates. “I’m 56, raising kids and paying the mortgage – there’s not thousands or tens of thousands of dollars lying around to put in an RRSP, it’s just impossible,” says Trahair.
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Couple married 67 years dies holding hands in their California home, just as they wished
After spending 67 years together as devoted husband and wife, there was no question how Floyd and Violet Hartwig would end their lives — together. Sensing the couple was close to death, their children pushed their two hospice beds together and gently placed their father's hand in the mother's palm. Violet, 89, followed five hours later. "They wanted to go together," their daughter, Donna Scharton, said Thursday.
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Pregnant Jessica Pare Celebrates Son-to-Be at "Beautiful" Baby Shower: Inside Details!
Mrs. Draper is going to have a son! Mad Men star Jessica Pare, who is expecting her first child with boyfriend John Kastner, celebrated her soon-to-be baby boy with a baby shower at costume designer and good friend Janie Bryant’s home in L.A.’s Los Feliz nabe on Feb. 21, a source reveals exclusively to Us Weekly.
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Adil Charkaoui blasts decision to suspend leases to Montreal Muslim schools
Adil Charkaoui said Muslims in Quebec are targets of a "witch hunt" as he blasted a decision by two Montreal junior colleges to suspend leases granted to his Arabic schools. The Moroccan-born Montreal educator who was once accused by Ottawa of being a terrorist and spent several years living under tight restrictions, said Friday his schools were unfairly tied to a group that left the country for Turkey and may have joined jihadist groups in the Middle East. Two schools suspended Charkaoui's contracts Thursday in the wake of reports that six young Quebecers left the country in mid-January.
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Bombardier CS300 takes off for 1st test flight
The first flight test of the CS300 was supposed to happen earlier this week, but was postponed because of inclement weather and a delay in getting Transport Canada's OK. The CS300 took off successfully a little after 11 a.m. local time.
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Attackers in Bangladesh hack to death American blogger and voice against religious extremism
A prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger known for speaking out against religious extremism was hacked to death as he walked through Bangladesh's capital with his wife, police said Friday. The attack Thursday night on Avijit Roy, a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen, occurred on a crowded sidewalk as he and his wife, Rafida Ahmed, were returning from a book fair at Dhaka University. It was the latest in a series of attacks on secular writers in Bangladesh in recent years.
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Dog owners urged to check their pets for signs of canine distemper
Dog owners are being urged to check their pets for signs of canine distemper after four dogs have become infected with the viral disease in Moose Jaw during the last 12 months. "In my career I had actually never seen a case of distemper until this year," veterinarian Lisa Cunningham said. Canine distemper is a viral disease that is often fatal.
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