The pilot of a Canadian airliner went to the bathroom, and couldn't get back into the cockpit. The crew of Air Canada's Jazz subsidiary had to remove the door from its hinges to get him back in. The incident occurred on a flight from Ottawa to Winnipeg, Canada.

As Cuban President Fidel Castro is struggling with death while in hospital, online gamblers are cashing in the fate of the leader. Castro is confined to a bed after undergoing a surgery for intestinal bleeding. Last week, he temporarily relinquished powers to his younger brother. According to a report published Thursday, people online are placing bets on which day or month the 79-year-old Cuban president will die.

As part of InterPoker. com's Extreme Poker series novice players and one professional battled it out 15,000-ft. off the ground. Losers of the game would have to parachute themselves out of an airplane. The players are the winners of Extreme Poker's online tournaments to play Texas Hold 'em in weird settings. The first of the series was played underwater and the second was played on a polar ice cap in Finland.

The "Polar Bear Jail" in the Canadian town of Churchill will be expanding to house more wayward carnivores. According to press reports, the facility was built in 1980 in the polar bear capital of the world.

A bear that was shot and killed last month in Canada has been confirmed by a DNA test to be a grizzly-polar hybrid, the first known documented case of this kind of bear found in the wild. An Inuit tracker from the Northern Territories thought the American hunter he was guiding had probably shot a hybrid bear after he saw that its fur was white with brown spots.