The St. John's Rehab Hospital in Toronto is conducting an ongoing study on the benefits of using Nintendo's Wii Fit to help patients recover from total knee replacement surgery.

The study started a few weeks back and is expected to end by December 2009. Physiotherapists making the study are testing if adding 15 minutes of playtime using Wii in a rehab program twice of thrice a week will improve the patient's ability to walk and balance and range of motion.

A landing gear wheel fell off a Colgan Airlines passenger plane as the craft came in for a landing at Buffalo Niagara International Airport earlier this week.

The wheel came off a Q400 Bombardier, the same type of plane that crashed three months ago killing 49 passengers and crewmembers, also while approaching the airport in Buffalo, N.Y. That crash also killed one person on the ground.

Lily Allen has been fined $2,000 for an ice cream fight.

The 'Fear' singer received the costly cleaning bill after causing havoc backstage to celebrate the end of the North American leg of her tour.

The star wrote on her Twitter account: "Had a massive ice cream fight, dressing room based, cost me $2000. End of tour, time to get mashed. Props to natalie portmans shaved head. (sic)"

China's cyber espionage operation has been stealing sensitive information from government office computers in 103 countries, according to Canadian researchers.

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has found that China's GhostNet system had sent e-mails containing malware to target computers. The malware prompts the infected computer to download a Trojan program called ghost RAT, which allow attackers to control the computers and bring its data to servers in mainland China.

An unidentified man fell from the Niagara Falls Wednesday but survived despite a head injury and nearly 45 minutes of exposure to freezing water.

A witness saw the man in his mid-30s enter the rapids at 2:15 p.m. and go over the Horseshoe Falls dropping 184 feet into the river below the massive waterfalls, according to the Toronto police. The river's strong currents ripped off the shirt of the man.