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    It’s impossible to know whether Osama bin Laden, sequestered in his Abbottabad hideout in Pakistan, ever turned on the DVD player and popped in a documentary he could instantly fact-check: Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden’s video-viewing habits were highlighted Wednesday by the CIA, which released a trove of documents and media six years after the raid that killed the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But for every insight from the release, there are dozens of head-scratchers, starting with bin Laden’s movie collection. The man once listed as No. 1 on the FBI’s most-wanted list had collected the kid movies Antz, Chicken Little and Cars. In addition to the more serious documentary on the international terrorist, there were BBC and National Geographi...

    Fake news has been named word of the year by Collins Dictionary and will be printed in the next edition. The phrase, which is often used by Donald Trump, has seen a 365 per cent rise in use since 2016. It is defined as "false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting". The President has regularly used the phrase to criticise certain media reports. He stated this week that the "fake news is working overtime" in connection to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Collins also noted "Corbynmania" enjoyed a resurgence in 2017 thanks to general election coverage, after first emerging in 2015. Other politically relevant words were significant over the last 12 months, including "antifa", an abbreviation of "anti-fas...

    A Florida couple got an extra treat on Halloween a baby Frankenstein. Make that Oskar Gary Frankenstein, who made his entrance into the world four days late and after 14 hours of labour on Tuesday at Winter Park Memorial Hospital. Parents Kyle and Jessica Frankenstein tell news outlets that Baby Frankenstein weighed in at 6 pounds (3 kilograms), 9 ounces (255 grams) and is 20 inches (50 centimeters) long. The baby’s grandmother Jennifer Frankenstein tells WKMG the family is ‘super excited.’ She said Oskar is her first grandchild and the Frankenstein family’s first baby born on Halloween, although she does have a 13-year-old daughter who shares the same birthday as ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley. Winter Park is near Orlando in central Florida.