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GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — The shipwrecked Costa Concordia was successfully refloated Monday in preparation to be towed away for scrapping 30 months after it struck a reef and capsized killing 32 people. The operation to float the Concordia from an underwater platform had proceeded smoothly...

More languages are spoken in Melbourne than there are countries in the world, a cacophony of 251 tongues whose voices stretch to all corners of the city. It is a thoroughly modern metropolis, a changing city where as older European voices begin to trail off, Mandarin's volume grows...

Liberal statement on the situation in Israel and Gaza Posted on July 8, 2014 MONTREAL – Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic, Marc Garneau, today issued the following statement on the situation in Israel...

Discussing equalization and other federal transfer payments in summer is about as much fun as a root canal in any season. Nevertheless, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa complained on Thursday that the federal government underfunds Ontario. The complaint is part of a political effort...

that's it...shut the whole goddamn thing down. The worst outbreak of Ebola moved to Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown where an Egyptian was found with the city’s first confirmed case of the disease. The unidentified Egyptian national had traveled from Kenema, the largest city in the...

Palestinian Activists Are Using The Hashtag #HitlerWasRight http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/the-hashtag-hitlerwasright-trends-on-twitter-after-palestini

Pope Francis has been quoted as saying that reliable data indicates that "about 2%" of clergy in the Catholic Church are paedophiles. The Pope said that abuse of children was like "leprosy" infecting the Church, according to the Italian La Repubblica newspaper. He vowed to...

of course he does...but what else can a whiny uppity prick really say anymore? :lol: Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday he and President Obama have been targets of “a racial animus” by some of the administration’s political opponents. “There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems...

via sda: Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV? Cut off the money; British Columbia First Nations are wasting no...

British supermarkets don't refrigerate eggs. The breakfast food can be found hanging out between the canned vegetables and boxes of dry cake mix in the grocery store aisle with other traditionally nonperishable foods. This surprised me since in the U.S., eggs are typically found in the...

No one who wants to help has authority, and no one with authority is helping. What is happening at the southern border is a true and actual crisis. News accounts justly use words like chaos, collapse and breakdown. They feature images of children—toddlers, 4- and 5-year-olds—being shuffled...

"Not you anymore." "Israel" YouTube http://rt.com/news/172316-israel-knock-roof-video/

Tick Flicks So, Lawrence of Arabia walks into a gay bar in the Nefud Desert with a paraplegic, a disadvantaged youth, an angry Women's Studies...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Atlantic City's crumbling casino market disintegrated even further Saturday as the owners of the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City said they expect to shut down in mid-September. Trump Entertainment Resorts told The Associated Press that no final decision has been...

Ezra LevantVerified account ‏@ezralevant First time in recorded history CBC is rooting for oilsands success: https://twitter.com/cbc_aboriginal/status/487968091398475776 … #cdnpoli #abpoli Some residents from...

Mr Beer and Popcorn is at it again with this gem posted in his Ottawa Citizen column: Team Justin Trudeau has nevertheless seen dramatic improvement in its share of votes while New Democrats have watched returns tumble. Other measures such as fundraising, opinion polls and media attention...

Palestinian-terror supporters on Toronto's streets make the case for overhauling Canada's immigration system Today in the heart of Toronto's downtown, foreign-born fanatics were screaming their fury at Canada and about Canada's support for the middle east's only democracy. They were there...

Global warming could be “natural”, admits climate change MP global_warming_could_be_natural_admits_climate_change_

best you hear this stuff from Uncle Locutus first: It has been a weird week in health news. First doctors said that Justin Bieber might save young boys’ lives (the “hip” bowl cut is actually a form of sun protection — skin cancer be gone!), and now scientists out of the University of Exeter...

College Board apologizes over 'racially insensitive' T-shirt The College Board apologized for a "culturally and racially insensitive" T-shirt and some comments made at its Advanced Placement World History exam grading event last month. On the front of the shirt are caricatures of Chinese...