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U.S. President George Bush unveiled his plans for a global warming conference by sending invitations to 13 countries and world bodies, including Canada, on Friday. The conference, scheduled for Sept. 27 and 28, is intended to bring together the world's biggest polluters in Washington to set...

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The end of the trail' Ten years ago, $6.1-billion vanished when tests found next to no gold in an Indonesian mine. Now, the only man to stand trial has been cleared of $84-million in insider-trading charges. Civil suits are pending, but for many investors Tuesday's ruling means just one...

A walrus family faces the threat of climate change in the film Arctic Tale. (Paul Nicklen/Paramount Classics) Arctic Tale is a cuddly, old-school wilderness parable where the anthropomorphized baby polar bears have names and a herd of flatulent walruses cavort together...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Harry Potter might possess the powers to vanquish evil wizards -- but not Chinese pirates. Bootleg English-language copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", J.K. Rowling's latest and last novel in her super-selling series, have been appearing on the streets...

Goodbye, Harry Potter Fans speculate on how beloved children's book series will wind up Montreal Gazette; CanWest News Service Published: Tuesday, July 17 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final instalment in the mega-popular book series, will be released Saturday. Fans around the...

World document.write(dateTranslator.displayLong('July 19, 2007 6:48:00 AM MDT')); Thursday, July 19, 2007 Reports: Japanese nuclear power plant had additional leak after earthquake KASHIWAZAKI, Japan (AP) - Japanese regulators...

Harper failing to sway country BRIAN LAGHI From Thursday's Globe and Mail...

Does this sound like an absolute scam to anybody else? Ottawa's real-estate deal is bad for taxpayers JOHN GORDON Globe and...

Anarchy In 1992, after the fall of the Communists, Kabul, traditionally a Pushtun city, fell under control of Tajiks Rabbani and Massoud and an Uzbek Doustum. This has immediately provoked a new war — this time between the mujaheds themselves — when Pushtun Hikmetyar besieged Kabul. Since...

I turned off my computer last night when a thunderstorm started. When I turned it on this morning my AVG started complaining about a kernel change.............Somewhere along the line they changed into 4 threats and then it called up "Trojan Horse Proxy POG". Eventually the threats were...

After a rather dismal Spring, we are now into decent Summer weather. In Nanaimo where I live, we are expecting 34 degrees today and 36 degrees tomorrow. Cambell River is about the same. Kelowna will get 37 tomorrow, as will Vancouver, and Lytton will hit 41 degrees. I love it. The only...

What's right about our health-care system by Robert Evans and Noralou Roos Economics Prof. Robert Evans is a director of population health with UBC's Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Noralou Roos is co-director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation. The...

Bombers claim more lives in Iraq WALEED IBRAHIM Reuters...

The subject came up on another topic this morning. I thought Faulty Towers deserved a separate topic by it's self. I just ran across this link this morning. Does anybody have a favorite episode? Comments? http://www.fawltysite.net/episodes.htm

Chinese cars perform horribly in crash tests by Auto123.com, auto123.com (June 27, 2007) If recent crash test results are any indication, then North American automakers have little to worry about in terms of a Chinese invasion. Recent videos and images circulating the internet show some...

Yet another bloody roadside bomb and six more Canadian soldiers are dead. http://tinyurl.com/2j879t

A pair of Peregrine Falcons raise their chicks on a Winnipeg roof. I've been watching since before the eggs hatched. Scroll down to see the web cam picture.. http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/falcon/index.html

These guys are just kids and amateurs but they did a pretty good job on the special effects. The second one is best, but they are both good. http://youtube.com/watch?v=8NE5elL30w4&mode=related&search= http://youtube.com/watch?v=-is63goeBgc&mode=related&search=

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1994695142386399860 This aircraft employs the latest thrust vectoring and computer stabilized controls. Watch the little front canard wings and the movement of the tailplane when the plane lands.