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Paraplegic woman first to take robotic suit home By Chris Wickham, Reuters LONDON - A British woman paralyzed from the chest down by a horse riding accident has become the first person to take home a robotic exoskeleton that enables her to walk. Although...

Bionic eye brings amazed woman some sight By Thuy Ong, Reuters SYDNEY - A bionic eye has given an Australian woman partial sight and researchers say it is an important step towards eventually helping visually...

Class reunion invites 'white graduates only' By QMI Agency We're not sure whether to be shocked by the fact that St. Martinville Senior High School's Class of 1973 has been holding segregated class reunions...

100-year-old driver hits 11 people near L.A. school By QMI Agency A man just shy of his 101st birthday backed his Cadillac up on the sidewalk and hit 11 people, including nine children, near a South Los Angeles, Calif., elementary school Wednesday afternoon...

What is it with all the dismemberments lately? Was there a sale on hatchets or something? 8O Woman's torso found at base of Niagara Falls...

I know I'll sleep better at night. Tax dollars helping develop safer sausage...

Ex-trucker learns to read at age 73 By Jean-Luc Doumont, QMI Agency ALMA, Que. - When former truck driver Gabriel Lavoie finally learned to read and write at age 73, choosing his first real-life writing task was a no-brainer. The native of Alma, Que., north...

8O Man bites snake to death in revenge attack By REUTERS KATHMANDU - A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake bit it back and killed the reptile in a tit-for-tat attack, a newspaper said on Thursday...

Teen girl escapes after 2 years in captivity U.S. woman held kept locked away, police say By QMI Agency Police say a teen reported missing more than two years ago escaped from a...

Amateur botches 'restoration' of Christ painting By QMI Agency A churchgoer in her 80s had the best intentions when she attempted to restore a 19th-century fresco of Jesus at a church in Spain. But her botched efforts have infuriated officials from The...

Daycare staff charged with running toddler fight club By QMI Agency Delaware daycare worker Estefania Myers, 21, is one of three daycare workers accused of watching and encouraging toddlers to fight. Three daycare workers in Delaware are accused...

Cops nab alleged boozer on a motorized picnic table By Scott Taylor, QMI Agency LONDON, Ont. – An Ontario man is facing charges after he and his buddies constructed a motorized picnic table and drove it around town. Police said they attached a lawnmower...

Pepsi thieves continue to hit vending machines across the country By Pamela Roth, QMI Agency Peps EDMONTON - Cops...

Seniors duke it out at retirement village meeting By DANIEL R. PEARCE, QMI Agency REUTERS/Mike Blake/File SIMCOE, Ont. -- Police were called to a retirement village in...

Man robs the same Winnipeg RBC bank four times When something works, keep doing it. That seems to be the motto of one man who managed to successfully rob the same Winnipeg bank four different times over an eight-month span. Unfortunately, the long arm of the law finally caught up with him...

Norwegian driver avoids moose only to hit bear A Norwegian driver swerved his car on a rural road to avoid running into a moose, only to hit a bear instead. The driver spotted the moose on a country road near Hanestad, 139 miles north of Oslo, around midnight on Wednesday...

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3D printed ‘magic arms’ help 4-year-old Emma Lavelle lift her arms, give hugs Little Emma Lavelle was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a condition that leaves her joints stiff and muscles underdeveloped. Because of this, she cannot lift her arms without support. When she's...

Nine-year-old’s lemonade stand raises over $3,000 to help Detroit Last week, nine-year-old Joshua Smith, and his friend Dwayne Durant, 10, sold lemonade, fruit punch, water and popcorn near Smith's Detroit home. They were hoping to raise $1,000 to help Detroit's financial crisis. "I heard...

Angry man flattens Vermont police cruisers with a tractor Vermont police learned the hard way this week why sometimes it's important to take precautions after arresting an alleged pot lover with an anger management problem and access to a large farm vehicle. As the Associated Press reports...