Turns out a famous French serial killer expert has been outed as a serial liar. Stéphane Bourgoin, 67, has led a prestigious career and was considered one of the most knowledgeable experts on serial crime in France, the Independent says. The true-crime book author claimed to have interviewed more than 70 killers since the 1970s, […]

Restaurants are having to get creative as they reopen amid physical distancing rules, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. At their Tuesday night reopening, South Carolina restaurant Open Hearth sat their live customers next to fancy dressed blow-up dolls. “The G-rated kind,” owner Paula Starr Melehes clarified to Fox19, purchased from Amazon for around $140. The […]

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, is only getting richer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, even as tens of thousands of people die and millions more lose their jobs. But while his business is booming thanks to millions of locked-down customers who rely on Amazon for their goods, he’s […]

You could say nature is returning — in a way — to San Jose, Calif. A herd of nearly 200 goats couldn’t be held back on Tuesday after they broke through their electric fence enclosure and took over the East San Jose streets, NBC News reports. Twitter user Zach Roelands shared a video of the […]

An old maxim in Canadian politics is that foreign policy never matters to voters or politicians. This harsh truth was underlined last fall when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau boycotted a leaders’ debate on foreign policy at the University of Toronto’s Munk School and the other party leaders fell in line with him with barely a […]

The two men in the Trump administration in charge of setting America’s global priorities are crisscrossing the Middle East this week, dividing up an already deeply divided region, trying desperately to separate fact from fiction and establish some sense of just where their nation’s priorities are going, how the United States might get there, and […]

MUNICH (Reuters) – Private equity investor Permira lowered its stake in German software company TeamViewer by selling shares to institutional investors at 41 euros apiece, it said late on Wednesday, giving it proceeds of 1.03 billion euros ($1.1 billion). With the placement of the 25 million shares, Permira [PERM.UL] cuts its stake in TeamViewer (TMV.DE) […]

One California man has taken wine tasting to a whole new level. A Modesto, Calif., man was arrested on May 5 after climbing onto the side of a truck, opening a valve and drinking wine straight from the tanker, CBS News reports. The company said they lost around the equivalent of 5,000 bottles of wine […]

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Shares of Avianca Holdings Inc AVT_p.CN fell sharply on the Bogota stock exchange on Tuesday after a New York court approved initial motions in the Colombia-based airline’s bankruptcy case. Many airlines have been forced to suspend flights since March in the wake of quarantine measures to slow the spread of the novel […]

The City of Edmonton has announced Joe Zatylny as the city’s new fire chief. Zatylny is currently a deputy chief with the Calgary Fire Department. “With more than 25 years of emergency service experience, including over 10 years in senior fire leadership roles, we are fortunate and excited to have Joe lead Edmonton Fire Rescue […]