If you had walked on the set of Jim Carrey’s new Showtime series Kidding last spring, you might have thought you were in the wrong place. Instead of the usual premium-cable backdrops, you’d be standing inside a brightly colored children’s television show — in the world of Kidding, it’s the show that Jeff Piccirillo, a.k.a. Jeff Pickles (Carrey) has hosted for 30 years on Columbus, Ohio, public broadcasting — where you might run into the likes of a sad baguette named Ennui Le Triste...

More than a fifth of meat sample tests in 2017 found DNA from animals not on the labelling, the BBC has learned. Out of 665 results from England, Wales and Northern Ireland collected by the Food Standards Agency, 145 were partly or wholly made up of unspecified meat. The FSA said the levels were consistent with "deliberate inclusion" - but added testing had targeted those businesses suspected of "compliance issues".

Apple Pay is now accepted at all Costco warehouses in the United States, at in-store checkouts, according to the company. Costco has been equipping its warehouses with contactless payment terminals over the past several months, and as of this week, it has activated contactless payments at all of its 750 locations across the country. Costco is also outfitting its gas stations with contactless readers, but only a few have gone live.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — They’ve long been an unmissable part of public events in Mexico, from soccer matches to trade fairs: attractive women hired to be greeters or simply as eye candy, sometimes scantily clad in short skirts and high heels or crop-tops and hot pants emblazoned with corporate logos.

The problem with string theory, according to some physicists, is that it makes too many universes. It predicts not one but some 10500 versions of spacetime, each with their own laws of physics. But with so many universes on the table, how can the theory explain why ours has the features it does?

A woman has been arrested and charged with first degree murder after a 6-month-old baby was kidnapped and found severely burned an hour later. Twenty-five-year-old Felicia Marie-Nicole Smith has been charged with first degree murder of Levi Cole Ellerbe. Ellerbe’s mother told the Natchitoches Police Department that the men banged on the door of her trailer around 9 p.m. on July 17.

President Donald Trump has broken another Washington norm: While recent presidents have tended to avoid commenting on monetary policy, Trump is out there saying the Fed is raising interest rates too high, too fast. But unlike some of the norms Trump has broken, this one isn't that old. The informal policy of presidents and their staffers not commenting on monetary policy only goes back about 25 years.

It's a date Talinda Bennington feared. Friday, July 20th is the one year heartbreaking anniversary of the suicide death of her husband Chester Bennington, lead singer of the iconic band Linkin Park. "It's the re-traumatization" she says. "That day is so seared in my mind." Talinda planned to spend that emotional day quietly with friends and family. Their two daughters were five at this time last year, their son Tyler was eleven. Chester has three older children too....

Consuming a diet high in sodium may lead to heart diseases, and increase the risk of early death, a study warns. The research, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, was carried on nearly 3,000 individuals with pre-hypertension or high blood pressure. It confirms a linear relationship between eating food high in salt and mortality risk. "Sodium is notoriously hard to measure. Sodium is hidden - you often don't know how much of it you are eating...

The Samurai Blue of Japan were eliminated from World Cup play on Monday. But the crushing defeat by Belgium didn't stop the Japanese national team from cleaning their locker room until it was spotless, and leaving behind a note thanking Russia for hosting them. A tweet from sports correspondent Tancredi Palmeri showing Japan's immaculate locker room and a one-word thank you note has gone viral, with more than 12,000 likes and 6,000 retweets as of Tuesday morning. Palmeri noted that the...

A second town mayor in the Philippines was shot and killed by an unidentified man in a road attack, one day after the mayor of another city was gunned down in a daylight sniper attack. Tuesday's killing prompted an opposition senator to call the country the "murder capital of Asia". Mayor Ferdinand Bote of the General Tinio town was leaving a government compound in a sports utility vehicle in the northern Nueva Ecija province when a man on a motorcycle shot him repeatedly with a ...

As a Canada-U.S. trade dispute threatens to grow nastier, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is encouraging Canadians to travel and spend at home though he stopped just shy of urging a boycott of American goods and destinations.

Sanctions against North Korea must be slowly eased as part of the process of its de-nuclearisation and all sides must meet each other half-way during negotiations, Russia's foreign minister said. On a visit to Pyongyang on Thursday - where he met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho - Lavrov called for the phased lifting of sanctions on North Korea, indicating Pyongyang would not give up its nuclear weapons until that happens.

Disruption to the body clock increases the risk of mood disorders and depression, a large study has confirmed. Scientists at the University of Glasgow looked at the circadian rhythms - which control functions including sleep patterns, body temperature, our immune systems and the release of hormones - of more than 90,000 people to measure daily rest-activity rhythms, called relative amplitude.

Spyro the Dragon has been rumored to receive the remake treatment, like its brother-in-arms Crash Bandicoot. While it hasn’t been confirmed yet, a strange package delivered to the Newsweek offices has us thinking a proper announcement is right around the corner. The plain, white box included a return address label listing the sender as Falcon McBob. Seeing as how I don’t know anyone from the McBob family, I was a little hesitant to open the box. There was also a strong odor of farmland emana...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg should quit as chairman of the company, according to an investor with a $1 billion (£712 million) stake in the technology giant. New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who oversees the city’s pension fund, told CNBC that there needed to be more independent board oversight at Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Mr Stringer said revelations that the UK-based data analytics firm harvested personal information from more than 50 million Face...

Google's Chrome OS is getting a design refresh in future updates, pushing it closer to Google's new design language which made its debut in Android P. On developer builds of Chrome OS, the firm has made several tweaks to prominent aspects of the interface, including the system tray, wallpaper picker, and keyboard shortcuts overlay. Earlier this year, the firm added a dark theme to its system tray. This week, it followed up with an Android P inspired design refresh to the same.