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  Undercooked bear meat linked to outbreak of rare parasitic disease in U.S.

  An outbreak of a rare parasitic disease has been linked to undercooked bear meat eaten by dozens of people at a gathering in North Carolina, a new U.S. CDC report has revealed.

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  Striking images show rare floods in the largest hot desert on Earth

  Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

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  Father of 10-year-old girl found dead in the U.K. called police from Pakistan to say he killed her

  The father of a 10-year-old girl found dead in her home in England fled to Pakistan and called U.K. police from there to say he had killed her, a jury heard Monday.

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  NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter's moon Europa in search of the right conditions for life

  A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter's tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.

• Hamilton police say 'escalating incidents' between high schools connected to deadly crash

  'Escalating incidents' between two Hamilton high schools are believed to be connected to a car crash last week that left a 15-year-old boy dead, police say.

• Canadian comedian, talk show host Mike Bullard dead at 67

  Canadian stand-up comedian and former talk show host Mike Bullard has died.

• Woman killed by malfunctioning ottoman bed

  A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said.

• Israeli strike in northern Lebanon kills at least 18 people far from Hezbollah's main strongholds

  An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 18 people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross.

• Scientists claim to solve centuries-old mystery of Christopher Columbus' origins

  The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.

• $250,000 worth of jewelry stolen from Bowmanville Airbnb, 4 suspects charged: police

  Four guests at an Airbnb east of Toronto made off with a quarter of million dollars worth of jewelry following their stay, police say.

• China deploys record 125 warplanes in large scale military drill in warning to Taiwan

  China employed a record 125 aircraft, as well as its Liaoning aircraft carrier and ships, in large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands Monday, simulating the sealing off of key ports in a move that underscores the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait, officials said.

• Dutch woman accused of enslaving Yazidi women while part of Islamic State goes on trial

  A Dutch woman who joined Islamic State in 2015 went on trial in the Netherlands on Monday for crimes against humanity for allegedly enslaving two Yazidi women in Syria.

• Two in three who plan to remain childless said it just wasn't for them, survey finds

  New data from the Angus Reid Institute shows that only one in five childless adults 50 or younger are confident they will have children.

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  WATCH | Warning after leopard spotted sauntering past police station in India

  Indian authorities are warning locals to be careful after a leopard was seen sauntering past a police station late last week.