Are you a good witch or a bad witch? Some days I'm a little of both. Other days I'm a little munchkin.

Punctuation "vandal" runs afoul of apostrophe police - "Language is worth standing up for," says British accountant

Or as the Telegraph refers to him "The Apostrophist" - with a nice photo too What I want to know is, do they pronounce the St John part to rhyme with "Sinjin"?

The link between sleeping in and staying slim - Kids who laze away weekend mornings less likely to be obese: study

The findings, published in the journal Paediatrics, add to earlier research that showed a link between regular sleep deprivation and obesity.

Canadian Health Care: surgeon fixes patients with glue

A cardiac surgeon at the University of Calgary has developed a new surgical technique that speeds up recovery time, using glue to repair breastbones intentionally broken during open-heart surgery. According to Dr.

Police seek man in 'lettuce rage' incident

Police in the central Ontario village of Markdale are looking for a man who shattered a restaurant door after becoming enraged over some lettuce and tomato on a hamburger.

French women don't get fat, but they do get work-life balance

Mireille Guiliano "I see it in France. Quality of life remains essential to the French and they are unified on what this means. Work should be something you can take some pleasure in – for the simple reason that it gives you more equilibrium with which to enjoy life.

Researchers create working penises for rabbits from cells

A successful experiment saw scientists grow rabbit penises that allowed males to mate, ejaculate and procreate

Are you Google material?15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid (GOOG)

Could you get hired at Google? It helps if you know how much it would cost to wash every window in Seattle, how many golf balls it takes to fill a school bus—and the answers to 13 other off-the-wall questions.

Cuteness beyond our powers of imagination: Can Canada bring together Obama kids and baby polar bears?

Word that Canadas new ambassador to Washington, former Manitoba premier Gary Doer, has invited President Barack Obama to send his kids to see Canadian polar bears creates the possibility of the biggest concentration of awww-inspiring photo-ops ever imagined.

Anti-racism groups slam 'Black Like Me' film

A new documentary film by a white journalist posing as a Somali immigrant is meant to highlight rampant racism in Germany, but his undercover method is garnering heavy criticism from black advocacy groups.

Growing Doritos: Where they grow our junk food

So to get to the root of the exploding obesity epidemic, I went in search of a junk food farm. Such farms are not so easy to spot. No fields of Dorito bags waving in the breeze, no orchards blooming with soda pop, no soil bursting with 99-cent burgers.

Putting a vacant Detroit home on (in) ice

A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region.

Dairy farmers killing cows as milk prices sink

After burning through $1-million (U.S.) in savings and seeing no end to their losses, dairy farmers Jake and Lori Slegers figured they didn't have much choice – they had to kill the cows.

Religious nuts 0, Sanity 1 - Dancing elephant statue stays, says Calgary Zoo

The Calgary Zoo said it has no plans to remove a dancing elephant statue after a complaint from a Christian group that it's an inappropriate religious icon.

Fast-food customer feels better after fork inhaled 2 years ago removed

The 50-year-old Wilmington, N.C., resident said he probably inhaled it while gulping a drink from Wendy's. Nice visual - clearly no fun on a dinner date. Honest to god just slow down and chew.

Today in creepiness: Arrest in case of man who sneaks into women's bedrooms and watches them sleep

As fetishes go, it seemed more scary than harmful. But women in Halifax can sleep easier after police made an arrest in the case of a man who'd been sneaking into bedrooms, watching female occupants while they slept before quietly leaving.

Film Festival - Toronto goes Looney for Clooney

Actual article title: How to win a date with George Clooney An eight-step program to join the cast of characters the star of Up in the Air likes to hang from his arm

Freaky fruit and vile vegetables: mother nature's freaks of nature (pics)

To make nature's wonders just that little bit more wonderful, man's helping hand may be required. For example, Gao Xianzhang of Hexia, northern China, has spent six years developing bizarre baby-shaped pears, carefully crafting each one inside an individual mould as it grows...

David Bowie gets spider named after Him

A German spider specialist told the Observer newspaper he named the new species after Bowie — whose album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was a huge hit in 1972 — because he wanted to raise awareness about the discovery.

Air travellers can now keep their shoes on

"Never suggest, ask or demand that passengers remove footwear prior to entering the WTMD [walk-through metal detector]," says the one-page directive, which went into effect immediately.

Debunking Canadian health care MYTHS

Yet, the debate rages on. Indeed, it has reached a fever pitch since President Barack Obama took office, with Americans either dreading or hoping for the dawn of a single-payer health care system.

Beehives, Berlosconi and the Apocalypse - Docs Lineup at the Toronto Film Fest

Seventeen doc films (nine world preems) have been added to the festival, but still no mention of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, while The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights Update: Michael Moore's doc is also coming

Is Depression American?

Based on the results of a new study, psychologist Randolph Nesse has developed a hypothesis linking depression to the ability to discard unreachable goals, which, apparently, is an American specialty.

Founder of Frommer Travel Guide: "Do Guns at Political Events Disturb You? Then Consider Skipping Arizona for Now"

For myself, without yet suggesting that others follow me in an open boycott, I will not personally travel in a state where civilians carry loaded weapons onto the sidewalks and as a means of political protest.

Lockerbie bomber release exposes US-British divide on justice: Prisoners' rights are well developed and compassionate release more common in Britain than in America, say experts.

"There is a British thing about fair play and not kicking someone when they are down," says Dr.

Naked signed picture of Jackie Kennedy, old wedding cake, what is this? Andy Warhol's junk

cardboard lid is lifted and four archivists peer inside. A postal box from Paris. Who sent it? A piece of crusty wedding cake. Whose? Another box: $17,000 in cash. Yet another: An autographed picture of a naked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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